Recent content by kristopher

The Carcass plays well with all other fuzzes and drives. It’s touch sensitive. And can sound like a warm fuzzy sweater, that doesn’t smother dynamics. It’s the “cleanest” fuzz I’ve tried. But it can also crush. In the good way. Since building one, 6 months ago, I haven’t taken it off my board...

I snap off the tab. And file a little bit. And use the washer if I screw up drilling the hole. …so they end up on most builds with switches.

How does it sound? Have you tried it out in anything ? Maybe it’s just a bad cut, and all the goodness inside is still good.

The builds look great. I love the large jewels. Why did you decide on 1590g’s? Just curious.

The Percolator plays well with others. You mentioned the Fuzz Face, and I’ll second that. I’ve been rockin’ a Fuzz Foundry before the Carcass (which is a Percolator variant I believe) and they get along great. Great report.

Also, when I had the guitar all apart, I shielded the body cavity. And a little while later, I upgraded the bridge and pickups. It’s a great guitar that was my main squeeze for years. But I don’t play it much now. It was a great project. I’m glad I did it. And it didn’t cost much more then my...

A set up would help for sure. I have stripped the poly off a Mexican strat. It doesn’t take too long with a heat gun and a putty knife. But then you have to sand the glue that held the poly on. And that took a while. Perhaps an hour or more with a palm sander. When you think it’s all off, run...

That’s pretty. Why did you decide to mount the jacks on the face ?

Check the cable? The output plug end.

I have not tried it. My friend wanted to know, I believe he wanted to be able to blend the two together. I didn’t mean to distract from the Charge Pump talk.

Would there be a way of running/switching the two channels to run in parallel? A friend asked a few years back when I built the Paragon Mini for him.

Can you have one boxed up and in my hands before the new year? Or is there a “waitlist”?? Seriously though. I love these informative posts. Thank you Mr Bones.

I’ve used the amp jewel. I had accidentally over drilled the hole, and it was a perfect fit. It was a Propolis, and looked great with just the jewel and the footswitch. If I remember correctly I used a blue jewel and a red led, so it glowed purple. I gave it to a buddy. I’ll look for photos… The...

Well it looks like I know what I’m doing when I get home. Digging out the Twill that I have in the box of other boards I need to troubleshoot. It’s been in there for a year because I thought one side of the thing wasn’t doing anything.

I started on Ernie Ball slinky’s, and stayed with that brand for at least 20years. As I started playing more, I was replacing them often. Like 4 times a year. When they would loose there Twang. A few years ago, I switched to the d’addario XS. They are Magic! I love them. They bend further with...