What’s on *YOUR* workbench?
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Vicious C
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I like the Cab, but I REALLY like those clamps!!
giovanni
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Those are some sexy clamps.
I bought the clamps a few years ago when I made some built in cabinets, I use a tracksaw which makes pretty square cuts and I find the clamps to be (potentially?) cosmetic as the glue sets up when using pockethole screws but I have them so figured why not. The cabinet would sound atrocious if it was 1 degree out of square
I got the speaker for $100 new pulled from a brand new orange cab, handle+grill cloth+feet+back panel+t nuts were $40, and the wood/finish I already had, so all in I am happy!
I got the speaker for $100 new pulled from a brand new orange cab, handle+grill cloth+feet+back panel+t nuts were $40, and the wood/finish I already had, so all in I am happy!
dot matrix madness
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vigilante398
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I've been working on this on and off for a LONG time, but after enlisting some outside help I finally have something usable, just needs a little more polish before it's ready for the big time. It holds 10 patches that are user swappable over USB, and the microcontroller will read the .wav filename out to the screen so you don't have to remember what you uploaded.
I built 5 identical prototypes and 1 works perfectly, the other 4 have a noise issue that pops up after running for a couple minutes, so I need to sort that out, but very excited about the progress.
I built 5 identical prototypes and 1 works perfectly, the other 4 have a noise issue that pops up after running for a couple minutes, so I need to sort that out, but very excited about the progress.
swelchy
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love those clamps... Where do you get them?
Aleph Null
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That's exciting stuff! How long of an impulse length does it support?
Joben Magooch
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Woodpeckers makes a very pricey set (as is to be expected)
Or a bunch of random chinese outfits from Amazon have their versions
vigilante398
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Not crazy long, about 20ms. Long enough for cabsim, not long enough for reverb and weird stuff.
temol
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I know it's a prototype, but have you considered smaller size? It looks like 1590bb now?
vigilante398
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This wasn't designed with any box in mind, it was 100% designed as a benchtop prototype for development purposes. It could certainly be made smaller, but that will be a decision I make when I decide what additional circuitry I want to add to it.
On the workbench.. front plate chassis 'nest'. This acts like a support/protection for the archtop front when it's being worked on. There will be one for the rear. It also acts like an experimentation to test ideas. Can you see where the router bit dropped on the first routing?
I'll line this but it's been scraped and sanded (as good as you can get with plywood). Then it's onto the front Spruce..
I'll line this but it's been scraped and sanded (as good as you can get with plywood). Then it's onto the front Spruce..
jimilee
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Awesome!! We’ll be able to do whatever that does in no time!
Guilherme Collateral
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Reviving an old project in a new format
This has been a WIP for over a year. Took this
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The neck pup is a SD SBP-1 and the MM one is from my Sterling Ray34. Running passive. The truss rod was screwed from the factory. The threads were welded to the adjustment sleeve making the action ALMOST unplayable. I have had it wired with a passive blend and as a standard jazz but was ultimately unsatisfied with both. Ordered an LHZ preamps active blend which required the battery box. Free hand routing works but my cavity is def not perfect. My unclean lines are covered by the box so who cares. I think my pups are a little out of phase in middle position thankfully the LHZ has quick connects so next time I am under the hood I will just flip the connector. For $75 (not including all the upgrades) it’s now a unique little beast. Have some LaBella deep talkin short scale flatwounds on the way
To this
Via this
The neck pup is a SD SBP-1 and the MM one is from my Sterling Ray34. Running passive. The truss rod was screwed from the factory. The threads were welded to the adjustment sleeve making the action ALMOST unplayable. I have had it wired with a passive blend and as a standard jazz but was ultimately unsatisfied with both. Ordered an LHZ preamps active blend which required the battery box. Free hand routing works but my cavity is def not perfect. My unclean lines are covered by the box so who cares. I think my pups are a little out of phase in middle position thankfully the LHZ has quick connects so next time I am under the hood I will just flip the connector. For $75 (not including all the upgrades) it’s now a unique little beast. Have some LaBella deep talkin short scale flatwounds on the way
