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This is one familiar brand. Probably a life time supply for a home shop… No odor, doesn’t get all over everything.

There are specific cutting fluids for aluminum. Over the years, I began to drift more towards cutting waxes, especially when tapping threads. Very easy to use, you just stab the cutting end into the tub, and it migrates less than most liquids. With aluminum, almost any lubricant will also work...

Germanium is really temp sensitive. Ideally, you should measure at whatever the “standard inside the effect box’es” temperature is. Not easy, especially if you play out. I always use tweezers to hold them while I attach the little testing clips on, which seems like a reasonable compromise...

Really lovely pedal design, and well executed!

Well, there’s “going south,” and there’s “circle jerk paranoia…”

Just lovely! Even the bottom!

Well, I’ve lost almost all of my hair, and can’t blame any treatments…

I can’t give you any useful rules, but if a circuit doesn’t have 100n bypass caps for each opamp, I tend to throw them on the backside, leaving the socket legs longer on those two pins. Typically, you want them as close as possible to the device.

I’ve missed your adventures in guitar modding! Glad you’ve got days with “better” hours in them—hopefully they continue to increase. Great Strat trio.

I’ve tried painting knobs in the past, using automotive (catalyzed) clear coats, and they still did not wear well, so I’m willing to compromise.

Part of my acquainting myself with a new guitar is figuring out strings for it. With few exceptions, the commonalities are “round wound,” nickel or Monel, and round core. At this point my lightest strung is my Strat, 11-48 set of Pyramid Monel Classics, but with a 10.5 first. My 290 gets John...

I’m guessing here, but pretty sure that JFB is just a manufacturer’s name. From the title descriptions, the caps seem to be interchangeable.

Perfect—Brett, thank you!

Before my order comes in, trying to do designs and not sure of diameter—does anyone have any of these, that can give me a measurement?

The Mercurial’s ability to select the boosted frequency is really useful—the other circuits mentioned may also have this; I’m not familiar with them.

One of my favorite boards, configured in a package I’ve never considered. I’d love to see photos of the mini board too!

I can't give you specific brands (at least specifically for aluminum), but I think you'd want a polishing paste, at least toothpaste thick, on soft cotton pads, or something like that. When you get an even, semi-polished look to it, switch to a finer polish, maybe Semi-Chrome, and continue. When...

In the event that I want to simply polish some of these to a really, really smooth, shiny finish - how would I go about that? I assume I'd need to wet-sand using a few different sandpaper grits (ending with something incredibly fine), but then what? What kind of polish/technique would I need to...

I don’t have any experience driving Marshalls, but Chop Shop comes to mind.

As others have mentioned, I measure with calipers and then draw it up. A great trick is to print out onto clear film, and then put the film over the board and double check that youve got everything correct. If so, I’ll either tape the film onto my box (if drilling by hand or press), or, if I’m...