Elementary school clay ashtray builds

[Diynot]

Trying to slow my building down since I have pedals strewn across my guitar room floor and it’s getting hard to reach my amps and guitars, that said, here are some of the beginning of the end builds. First is a Spirit Box, my one and only belton brick project. Well worth the price of admission.

Tighty whitey. Nuff said. Next is what I am affectionately calling the Snuff film box, or maybe just the full on snuff. Dunno. Anyways, it’s an Aloysius and a Snuffy fuzz in the same box with an order switcher.

Some seriously gnarly fuzz in here. Is the Sum better than the parts? The jury is still out. There is some serious doom with both running, but there is also a tendency towards squeal and am radio depending on gain settings and which circuit is first. Am I glad I built them, sure. Am I at the point in building where fuzzes are all starting to sound the same, maybe. To be fair though, I built these for bass and have yet to play them as such. There’s always tm.

 

[fig]

Well done sir, and yes...tip-toeing through the pedal fields is not as euphoric as it may sound.

 

[Diynot]

Well done sir, and yes...tip-toeing through the pedal fields is not as euphoric as it may sound.

Yeah, it’s not QUITE as bad as Legos, but when there is a real threat of tripping and putting your head through your grill cloth it’s time to reconsider that next build (or maybe I should invest in some shelving so I COULD build more!)

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

It's funny I've had a vexter masto and a Woolly clone around for years and I've never hooked them up together... and I experiment a lot with dirt combos.

 

[Diynot]

It's funny I've had a vexter masto and a Woolly clone around for years and I've never hooked them up together... and I experiment a lot with dirt combos.

Maybe I was inspired by @Pauleo1214 and said “fuck it, what’s the worst that could happen?”

 

[Pauleo1214]

Maybe I was inspired by @Pauleo1214 and said “fuck it, what’s the worst that could happen?”

You get curious and you turn your basement into a holy mess. The pedals on the wall shelves are the only ones i have stacked neatly.

 

[Diynot]

It's funny I've had a vexter masto and a Woolly clone around for years and I've never hooked them up together... and I experiment a lot with dirt combos.

I did have a chance to put the bass through these and am honestly not impressed by either (singly or together). The woolly doesn’t seem to like the active pickups in my Ray34 and even with the pickup loading, the mastotron gets a little farty. Def preferring this one on guitar. With both engaged you can get really Velcro, 8bit tones, as well as, feedback/sustain for days.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

I only actually like the wooly and only like it with my p bass. I have a fretless 5 string with passive humbuckers and an active electric upright that both sound like absolute diarrhea with the wooly. I liked the masto just fine on rhodes though.

 

[fig]

[ New guitar to older one hanging on rack beside it ];
"May I ask what our brother on the floor did?"

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

[ New guitar to older one hanging on rack beside it ];
"May I ask what our brother on the floor did?"

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It's like the death penalty, it's not keeping anyone in line until the consequences are widely visible. That's basically a vlad Dracula impaling/Ned Stark's head on a spike right there.

 

[Feral Feline]

Okay, but now I want to see that electric upright, @Mentaltossflycoon.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

Sheeit, it's super hard to photograph. 4th instrument I made, long before I knew shit about anything. Walnut and maple neck, wenge top and back, tung oil finish, ebony fb. Schatten pickup and preamp dissected and internally installed. I welded a tom mount arm to a cymbal stand which is why there's a tom bracket on the back, been solid for 13 yrs. It's taken a few tumbles on stage here and there like a champ. It's crazy heavy and sounds enormous. Purists might turn their nose up at the long sustaining notes it provides. Definitely brings it out of being an "accurate upright sound" but that wasn't what I was after.

As a joke between a close a friend and myself I put my face up there on that chunk of aluminum freehanded with a dremel.

 

[Diynot]

@Mentaltossflycoon that is a gorgeous instrument you’ve got there. Fantastic job! Now, let’s see your Whamola

 

[Pauleo1214]

[ New guitar to older one hanging on rack beside it ];
"May I ask what our brother on the floor did?"

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#25 in my galleries here. http://www.pauleliassonguitars.com/galleries/

I call this body shape the Serena after my niece. It is a marriage between a telecaster and a PRS custom.

This was the first Serena I built some 9 years ago. The neck and fretboard are pink ivory. That wood is very, very friggin hard. A crack had formed on the back of the neck heel. I took it off to fill, and redowel the neck. I haven't taken the time yet to redrill the holes on the heel.

I was about to clamp it then got called by the wife. So i put it down on carpet and close to the wall. Then i saw Diynot's post.

 

[fig]

#25 in my galleries here. http://www.pauleliassonguitars.com/galleries/

Oh wow! I have some browsing to do! Thanks!

 

[Pauleo1214]

Sheeit, it's super hard to photograph. 4th instrument I made, long before I knew shit about anything. Walnut and maple neck, wenge top and back, tung oil finish, ebony fb. Schatten pickup and preamp dissected and internally installed. I welded a tom mount arm to a cymbal stand which is why there's a tom bracket on the back, been solid for 13 yrs. It's taken a few tumbles on stage here and there like a champ. It's crazy heavy and sounds enormous. Purists might turn their nose up at the long sustaining notes it provides. Definitely brings it out of being an "accurate upright sound" but that wasn't what I was after.

As a joke between a close a friend and myself I put my face up there on that chunk of aluminum freehanded with a dremel.
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Very cool way of making the slot on this headstock! I am counting 22 for 22 VERY clean and accurate passes with a 3/8" drill bit?

 

[Flashheart]

You get curious and you turn your basement into a holy mess. The pedals on the wall shelves are the only ones i have stacked neatly.

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My space looks very similar. I thought I was unique.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

Very cool way of making the slot on this headstock! I am counting 22 for 22 VERY clean and accurate passes with a 3/8" drill bit?

Ha, yep. I was just removing material intending to go all the way to a rectangular shape but the drilling was pretty straight and I liked the look so I just cleaned it up a bit and left it.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

@Mentaltossflycoon that is a gorgeous instrument you’ve got there. Fantastic job! Now, let’s see your Whamola

I did have a gut bucket back in the 90s.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

#25 in my galleries here. http://www.pauleliassonguitars.com/galleries/

I call this body shape the Serena after my niece. It is a marriage between a telecaster and a PRS custom.

This was the first Serena I built some 9 years ago. The neck and fretboard are pink ivory. That wood is very, very friggin hard. A crack had formed on the back of the neck heel. I took it off to fill, and redowel the neck. I haven't taken the time yet to redrill the holes on the heel.

I was about to clamp it then got called by the wife. So i put it down on carpet and close to the wall. Then i saw Diynot's post.

This one really draws my eye and I'm not usually into painted instruments. Some really nice stuff up in there, man!