What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

[UtilityBeltFX]

Here she's is, all bolted together, wired and strung up! I'm very, very happy with how it turned out, although I won't be able to plug it in until tomorrow. The one piece body is very resonant and the satin mahogany neck feels fast and full.

A couple things right off the bat:

1) I immediately ordered a replacement Hipshot hardtail in the .175 height. I don't understand why Warmoth sells the .125 version but with the saddles maxed out I'm barely escaping fret buzz as is. So that will be changed shortly.

2) This is my first time building a telecaster and I learned a ton, especially regarding installing the control plate and output jack. Highly recommend having all controls installed before drilling mounting holes for those so you know there's room. I half-assed the control plate (switch only, no pots) and now there's an extra set of holes underneath. But you will never see those thankfully.

3) This needs a setup badly. There's a high fret at the 15th (Musikraft neck) so the 14th are dead notes on the ebg strings. The frets also feel quite rough but I'll hit those with some steel wool and Dremel when swapping the bridge soon.

 

[jwin615]

Needed a method for large lots. Excited to see the outcome for these Raytheons.
Spot check found multiples with 1000+ betas and usable leakage.
I'll build something. I promise.

Anyone every built a FF with all 1k beta Ge?
Edit: shit forgot the photo

 

[jessenator]

Excited to see the outcome for these Raytheons.

What was the leakage on those? Well, the ones with normal gain, anyway.

 

[Nostradoomus]

Raytheon

I'll build something. I promise.

You have to call it Knife Missile if you do.

 

[Harry Klippton]

You have to call it war crime if you do.

 

[jwin615]

What was the leakage on those? Well, the ones with normal gain, anyway.

0-200ish on most that I spot checked. These had to have been presorted for the military or something.
I haven't measured all of them yet. Just stickered 300 of the 400 on bread boards late last night.

 

[gonzo]

Finally got this old Japanese record player running and sounding ok. Ghetto tape, screw and a jack sleeve for weight to make it work. Maybe it's from the 60s? Quality parts underneath, but not the stylus. Might find or make a whole new tone arm to fit a modern stylus down the road. I forgot about the RIAA eq curve records used to master with. I might make a passive reverse curve circuit to plug between the preamp and power amp, so I don't need to max the bass and cut the treble all the way down. Forgot they did and sometimes still do that as a industry standard.

 

[Fever2112]

@Fever2112 Just got my boards in from JLC, WOOT!
I think I will leave my DCA stock and solder some loops to the Banana plug pads.
Now I need to find a ZIF connector and I'll be all set!
Thanks so much man!

Tayda sells the ZIF connector and banana jacks - https://www.taydaelectronics.com/zif-socket-18-pin-0-3.html & https://www.taydaelectronics.com/4mm-banana-female-socket-blue.html (plus red and green)

You can hook your DCA cables to the solder lugs of the banana jacks.

 

[Gordo]

Damn that tele looks clean.

 

[Dumpster D]

This is a little 60's era stencil amp/combo with a tremolo that currently does not tremolo...The trem pot is an on/off switch. The amp works fine...No tremolo effect...That's all there is for the trem controls too, no blend, the on/off tremolo pot probably just controls the rate.

Any thoughts where to start looking for possible culprits? Faults...components? I dunno, so far on visual inspection things appear ok.

...You'd figure for how well the amp portion of the board runs and sounds that the Trem would be fine...Could just be a bad connection somewhere but I don't see any loose connection or wires.

This thing sounds pretty sparkling at full blast

HUGE BIG apoligies for attatching a sideways image!!! My excuse is I'm using an 'ACER' microslop laptop right now...I hate it.

 

[Fuzzonaut]

Moar MOJO! The 1uF Orange cap is about as large as the vero board



In FUZZ we trust!

 

[gonzo]

Moar MOJO! The 1uF Orange cap is about as large as the vero board

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In FUZZ we trust!

We love our pussy...that we do...

 

[jwin615]

I've never seen a OC76 that says "BRITISH".
eBay?

 

[Fuzzonaut]

I've never seen a OC76 that says "BRITISH".
eBay?

Langrex

 

[Gordo]

Oh lawdy, that's about the best pedal porn I've seen in ages...

 

[giovanni]

My wife and I have been working on reupholstering our dining room chairs. First time doing this so it’s a learning experience. We just got the first seat done and it doesn’t look too bad!

 

[Cybercow]

Finally got around to assembling a breadboard with a coupla those new SSI2100 BBD chips. They're a fussy little beaver and don't play well with 555 devices; so now I'm waiting for some LTC1799 chips from Mouser.

I'm starting off with stringing two of them together (on the left side) between the two halves of the TL072 (right side) managing the in & out filters.

 

[szukalski]

A bootweak Timmy (Smoggy), Boneyard Emperor of Tone, and a Boneyard Sixty8. Low, mid, high gain..

 

[tegendemuur]

Three bad spontaneous actions made me mess up the paint around the sliders. I was more tired than I assumed and didn't think things through. Let's see how this evolves... Already contacted Sequential support to see if they might help my lovechild of their product out with the original silkscreen print file. Otherwise, it is going to be a lot of work ..

Wood sawn off by hand, so needs to go through the router. After that it's done.

 

[JasonWickersham]

Nothing at the moment on the bench.. but how about a pic of 2026 completions.. well, mostly completed. Few of these need paint and labels.


Amazing the time one has when they give up a couple vices..