What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

Erik S said:
That’s a lotta waveforms. 😯
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Been wanting to put together the wavelord for some time. Seems like it'll be right up my alley for glitchy, broken sounds.

The ability to drive other FX with this guy is definitely a part of the appeal.

The biggest problem with this thing, though, is the amount of control labeling required to really make sense of everything from a glance. Trying to fit everything onto a 125b and making it readable is a bit of a pain with the equipment I have: honestly, If I have too much difficulty here I might just redesign a bit and try with tayda's printing service.

The 10watt laser I have has a hell of a time with cutting clean through the powder coating on these enclosures. This one I'm gonna have to sand bare and use on the normal CNC: after scrubbing with a toothbrush and alcohol for a while the contrast just isn't deep enough, the details are a bit less than sharp.

Right now I'm re-running with a bit of laser marking spray on a bare enclosure. Slowed the speed way down to 10mm/sec and got the power cranked to max

This stuff is normally meant for marking metal with 25 watts of a CO2 laser, but my little diode is about 2/5ths of that.

Some day I'll upgrade this thing to a fiber laser and actually be able to engrave on metal.
 
Started an envirotex finish on a few enclosures. My first attempt. I decided to start with the DB because I scuffed the whole face of it while trying dumb things. It was kind of a bummer.

After I poured it, to my amazement all those blemishes disappeared! It got me re-excited about the build again.
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Stickman393 said:
Been wanting to put together the wavelord for some time. Seems like it'll be right up my alley for glitchy, broken sounds.

The ability to drive other FX with this guy is definitely a part of the appeal.

The biggest problem with this thing, though, is the amount of control labeling required to really make sense of everything from a glance.
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Wavelord has been on my radar as something I was probably interested in because people talk it up, but I guess I must not have seen a build report on one.

I’m a hand labeller so super complicated control layouts are definitely a problem. I started some fv1 project with an 8 way rotary a while back, realized I had no good way to label it and gave up. I like Brian’s solution on that Wavelord though. Having a key is definitely better than trying to label the knob positions. If I ever do one, I might just print that key as a sticker and label everything else.
 
The current meter project was about the dumbest thing I could buy but I knew it had serious geek potential so I ordered two of them so I could turn a buddy on to it. I use this thing all the time at the store I work at just as a sanity check on pedals on the bench. Too cool when I get bench lurkers looking over my shoulder and I announce that the pedal is drawing 14ma :cool: It's helped me point out issues with overloading a chain on a pedal board and I get to put on my sales hat with pointing out the benefits of using a big-boy power supply.

Score. Easily the best pedal I've built in years.
 
Stickman393 said:
Forgot a couple of things on this design. Strangeness with elliptical circles, not sure why my machine is being a little bitch.
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I would recommend checking axis squareness (making sure x/y are actually perpendicular) and checking belt tension, most common causes for improperly shaped shapes.

Stickman393 said:
The 10watt laser I have has a hell of a time with cutting clean through the powder coating on these enclosures.
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High power/high speed and multiple passes is the best way to go if you're not getting through, then wipe with buffing compound on a soft cloth to clean up burned bits. My intro to lasering started with a 5W machine, and I had to do a lot of trial-and-error to get stuff to work.
 
vigilante398 said:
I would recommend checking axis squareness (making sure x/y are actually perpendicular) and checking belt tension, most common causes for improperly shaped shapes.


High power/high speed and multiple passes is the best way to go if you're not getting through, then wipe with buffing compound on a soft cloth to clean up burned bits. My intro to lasering started with a 5W machine, and I had to do a lot of trial-and-error to get stuff to work.
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improperly shaped shapes. That was my band back in ‘91. 🤣🤣🤣
 
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In a previous post I shared how I picked up a used Trek. Here is the bike that precedes it; it cost a whopping $269 on Amazon. I bought this because I wanted to get into road cycling. It is a piece of crap but I got attached to it. Don't get me wrong, the Trek is a much better quality bike.

Why did I buy the Trek? For starters, this thing weighs 33 lbs in total. It also had a 14-28 freewheel and a 42-32 crank. It's great for scaling up the side of El Capitan but not for getting up to high speeds; obviously meant for a mountain bike. The front rotor was corroded and squeaked horribly.

So I put on new rotors, brake calipers, a 11-28 freewheel, a 50/34 crank, and spd pedals. I am hoping to take her out for a test Thursday.
 
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