Recent content by HamishR

My favourite part of our trip was the "Valley of the Giants" near Walpole. It's in a forest of Karri and Red Tingle trees. Karri are the tallest trees in our state. Not quite as tall as redwoods but not so far off. Red Tingles look to be a kind of taller, straighter version of our jarrah trees...

More coast at the Gap:

When we were down south we stayed in Albany, which is the biggest town on the south coast of Western Australia. We pronounce it closer to how Americans would say "owl-bany". Not all-bany, like the one in New York. Albany is very hilly, used to be a major whaling centre and has a few distilleries...

I was down south (as we like to say here) last week. Walking back to the car from Elephant Rocks (near Denmark - a town in SW Australia, not the country) we were heading through sand dunes on a path and I said to my wife "This looks like dugite territory". No sooner had I said that than we...

The Tim is different from a Timmy. I traced an original early Tim belonging to a friend and found a difference to the original Timmy other than just the boost. The original Tim had a 4n7 cap across pins 6 & 7 which the Timmy didn't. I suspect there were other differences over time - most...

I know nothing about that pedal but the circuits of a DC30 and a Supro are very different.

Interesting... They are described in similar ways but sound quite different really. I like both the Hotbox and the Tush. The Tush can be one helluva lot smaller though! I tend to use both at fairly low gain levels. The Tush has a more complex sound once it starts distorting and you play more...

Oh I didn't realise they had to be 1/2W. Ignore me!

Yeah, I wasn't impressed with that! Or that the Chupacabra is very much a Red Llama. Didn't work too hard on that one...

Who would ever say something like that?? :rolleyes:

Hey @rwl - I was thinking of you yesterday when I visited the "Valley of the Giants", an amazing park in the south west of Australia, near Walpole. As soon as we arrived at the treetop walk (a raised wobbly walkway through tall karri and red tingle trees) we saw some tiny, tiny birds zipping...

Oh you'll get used to them firing up right away. I like the look you went with. Before you know it you'll be modifying them...

I reckon using your own name is a better way to go. I once made a Tele out of Warmoth parts. Instead of Fender on the headstock, I wrote Fred - in the same font. And instead of Telecaster I wrote Splat-o-Custard In the same style as Fender write the model name. I've also used Pretendocaster on...

If you move the 15K and 22K resistors directly below the diagonal jumper (15K to the right one space and 22K to the left one space) and also swap the red and the green jumpers associated with them then you can move the cut at 16-I one space to the left and everything fits. :)

Nice work! I like those texture finishes a lot. I have a couple of the what ones and agree - they look great. I mainly use the black and grey, although the red is cool too. When I build anything I think I will use with my Gretsch 6120 in particular I like to use the texture orange. Gives the...