What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

Yeah I'd never heard of it til my roommate said his dad used to make it and it was really good. Just a mix of mayo, mustard, paprika, msg and pepper slathered all over it. We'll see :ROFLMAO:
 
Nostradoomus said:
Yeah I'd never heard of it til my roommate said his dad used to make it and it was really good. Just a mix of mayo, mustard, paprika, msg and pepper slathered all over it. We'll see :ROFLMAO:
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It's mostly msg...
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Seriously though, that's deviled egg chicken. You could call it "midwestern mother and child reunion" if you worked a boiled egg into it.
 
I messed about with an old pedal (Aztec Sunn from Moonn) to switch out the LM386's to LM386-4's from LCSC. I think there is an improvement in tone, especially with palm mutes, it doesn't get as farty, and the tone controls have more useable range before it gets "weird" and bad sounding.

But the bigger issue I noticed when I messed around with the noise gate was that it was actually picking up radio like hell. I mean with gain fully turned up it was like a choir of banshees, and while I didn't get actual radio out of it, turning the gain definitely sounded like tuning a radio - the range was probably not where our radio stations actually are, it was tuned to some other range.

I checked grounding (which actually was bad, I hadn't cleared the powder coating from the in/out jack holes since it was a very old build of mine), but fixing that didn't actually change anything. Finally after looking for advice on the forums I added a small ceramic cap across an input resistor to ground which fixed the issue.

...still not a huge fan of the pedal because it really only does one trick, even with the Model-T EQ stack, but at least it's not haunted anymore.
 
Fama said:
I messed about with an old pedal (Aztec Sunn from Moonn) to switch out the LM386's to LM386-4's from LCSC. I think there is an improvement in tone, especially with palm mutes, it doesn't get as farty, and the tone controls have more useable range before it gets "weird" and bad sounding.

But the bigger issue I noticed when I messed around with the noise gate was that it was actually picking up radio like hell. I mean with gain fully turned up it was like a choir of banshees, and while I didn't get actual radio out of it, turning the gain definitely sounded like tuning a radio - the range was probably not where our radio stations actually are, it was tuned to some other range.

I checked grounding (which actually was bad, I hadn't cleared the powder coating from the in/out jack holes since it was a very old build of mine), but fixing that didn't actually change anything. Finally after looking for advice on the forums I added a small ceramic cap across an input resistor to ground which fixed the issue.

...still not a huge fan of the pedal because it really only does one trick, even with the Model-T EQ stack, but at least it's not haunted anymore.
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that's one of those "where you are in the world" problems, but glad that fixed it
 
Erik S said:
Are we looking at a crack in an acoustic instrument here? Looks like a pretty stable situation. I might just rock it. You could maybe water down some wood glue and try and force some in there from the outside with finger pressure.
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Put a damp cloth on it for 30min, then checked to see if the gap closed. Yes! Took the soldering iron and dried the wood along the length of the crack. Then let the whole thing dry on its own until the crack started to just open again, and quickly pressed / rubbed woodglue into it, sanded the area slightly so some wooddust would get smeared into the glue as well. Then put damp cloth on both sides of the crack to make the wood swell up again, doing the clamp thing via natural means. <3

Not perfect. But after a finish, likely only visible to those in the know!

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Next up, a NAMM 2025 onboard preamp retrofit:

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This bass has been kicking around since pre-Covid and IIRC this will be the third different preamp I've done for it. The pickups are neodymium sidewinders, and the people who dig this style bass tend to be slappers, so on my end it's a pretty different thing than I usually do. But the current preamp in there seemed pretty popular, so I guess if it ain't broke fix it anyway kind of applies. :ROFLMAO:
 
Passinwind said:
Next up, a NAMM 2025 onboard preamp retrofit:

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This bass has been kicking around since pre-Covid and IIRC this will be the third different preamp I've done for it. The pickups are neodymium sidewinders, and the people who dig this style bass tend to be slappers, so on my end it's a pretty different thing than I usually do. But the current preamp in there seemed pretty popular, so I guess if it ain't broke fix it anyway kind of applies. :ROFLMAO:
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Singlecut basses are very polarizing. I owned a different style one from the same luthier for several years, but neither fivers nor frets are really my jam. I love having one around to mess with for a month or two periodically though. That pic doesn't really do justice to the beautiful wood grain in any case!
 
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They know when to find you once they know you can handle the iron, don't they? My brother needed a bunch of lights to shine on small art pieces at an exposition next week. So I slapped ten of these together in an afternoon. Quite the pain, replacing the stranded wire with solid. He can now clip them on 9V batteries and place and twist them however he wants. He's been busy making little tin foil caps to wrap around the lamp, to direct the light according to his needs..

(Left the caps off, to show off the functional butchery I had to perform here. Only two needed a dash of epoxy glue, because I hadn't figured out right away that the heat would do a beating on the plastic clips. Pressing them on the steel you see in the photo was a revelation!)
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Passinwind said:
Next up, a NAMM 2025 onboard preamp retrofit:

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This bass has been kicking around since pre-Covid and IIRC this will be the third different preamp I've done for it. The pickups are neodymium sidewinders, and the people who dig this style bass tend to be slappers, so on my end it's a pretty different thing than I usually do. But the current preamp in there seemed pretty popular, so I guess if it ain't broke fix it anyway kind of applies. :ROFLMAO:
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I’m sorry but I just can’t unsee it, now nether can you….
 
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Robert said:
Yep. I also keep a little 5 gallon shop vac beside the dryer to clean the lint trap.

Much easier and cleaner than trying to clean it out by hand into a trash can, plus I can clean out the dryer a little each time.
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Do you blow from the inside out?
 
Stickman393 said:
Folks sell little mirrors that look like mini-laptops. I typically have to set one of those up to get my kitties to stop jumping on my keyboard.

I wonder if they sell mini soldering stations...
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I figured why wouldn't they? They do, but I was looking for a toy that wouldn't cause any harm and the cat couldn't accidentally switch on and burn down the house.
They make plastic carpentry kits, and plastic mechanic kits so why not miniature plastic-toy solder-stations?

This is the closest I could find:

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Whatever criteria I used to search with got me results for real solder-irons used for plasti-welding or for repairing toys or... etc.
 
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