Interesting. Please elaborate on your technique!I used to and now I just populate against a piece of card. Makes for a quicker workflow for me.
Same here....set and flipI used to and now I just populate against a piece of card. Makes for a quicker workflow for me.
I could NOT remember the name of my panavise last night. Laid down and thought "panavise" lol.... I've been looking at those pricey gooseneck helping hands and just couldn't accept the price. This morning I found the NAME of those!!! Now I can roll my own.....I rarely use this on pedal boards, they’re small enough that just flipping them on a surface is fine. But for larger boards, it’s lovely. Panavise, but on a newer baseplate that gives me use of the cool magnetic base arms. Actually, I think I end up using those more often on pedal boards if I need them in a specific position to access harder to solder places…
(Note the two that are hanging off the bottom of the yellow plate.) I think for pedal work, I’d get a good system with the bendy arms and alligator clips before a board flipper.
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I have the non-Stewmac version of this as well and it works great (and was much cheaper). It's super easy to flip from one side of the board to the other and the small jaws don't obscure much of your PCB footprint. Haven't had any issues with it other than it maxes out ~7-8" width if you're working on bigger boards.https://www.stewmac.com/luthier-too...-for-electric-guitar/stewmac-pc-board-holder/
This the one I have and use!