What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

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Big blue box and a small blue box with tiny boards. 30x of the Szukalski simple relay boards (pre-populated, need to add the relay myself though) at around 1€ per piece, and a big list of other boards. Some of them are the same as what PPCB sells, although obviously much worse layouts, so I'm not sure how I feel about sending those away over this forum, but I've got a couple of Scientific Guitarist boards for example (Don't Tell Ray and Echoplexus) if anyone in the EU is interested.
 
Bought a Trek 5500 frame for $100. The finish was pretty rough so I stripped it down to the bare carbon. I sprayed an iridescent rainbow colorshift over the carbon and metallic waterslides to apply a livery in tribute to the USPS Trek 5500 used to win the Tour De France 7 times (wins later invalidated because Lance doped, still a really cool bike).

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Before shot of the frame.
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I need money to pay off my recent mortgage so I joined a country dance party band and most of my free time has been spent translating my blues and rock skills to country lead guitar. Only thing on the workbench this weekend is my Music Man - the strings keep wearing out on the frets so those are getting polished and I'm smoothing some burrs on the bridge saddles.
 
MBFX said:
I need money to pay off my recent mortgage so I joined a country dance party band and most of my free time has been spent translating my blues and rock skills to country lead guitar. Only thing on the workbench this weekend is my Music Man - the strings keep wearing out on the frets so those are getting polished and I'm smoothing some burrs on the bridge saddles.
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First time hearing "I need money so I joined a band" :ROFLMAO:
 
I made a pickguard for my baritone. I was a bit nervous working with roasted maple (I'd only ever finished it and drilled a couple holes for string trees), especially such a thin piece (0.14"). I've read some complaints that it can be brittle and tear out easily. I went slow and didn't have any problems. Countersinking the screwholes was nerve wracking at the end though. Very pleased with how it turned out.

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Partial family/workspace photo for good measure.

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Also, @Pauleo1214 that paint looks rad.
 
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Looks great! Did you follow any guides or just kinda wing it?
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Thnaks! Neither? I didn't follow a guide but I spent a ton of time planning, so I don't want to say that I winged it. I love the grain pattern on most (swamp) ash. Seemed like a shame to cover it up with a massive pickguard like most jazzmasters. I had mocked up some different designs just doodling on my ipad, taking cues from the split jazzmaster pickguard Warmoth does and some of the different styles of telecaster pickguards. I drew out the design on my guitar using some scrap paper, transferred it to MDF, tweaked the shape, dry-fitting over and over, and finally cut it out on a scroll saw, followed by a moderate amount of sanding and finishing work.

I had wanted to do the design in freecad so I could skip the painful dry-fitting part and just 3D print a template (and upload the design in case anyone else wanted to use it). I haven't maintained the patience to sit down and learn freecad though so it didn't happen. One day.
 
Just finished my first p2p pedal and I’m so glad it worked straight without troubleshooting. It is my first Fuzzface/Meathead circuit too both build and playwise. Had some difficulties first with making circuit footprint too widely spaced, needed to de/resolder components, had to use salvaged caps with paralled ones etc.
Construction is bit messy, but do I care after fitting backlid on? Nope!

Short test play into my bedroom amp awarded me with nasty squarish fuzz with maybe even synthlike textures? Now I just wait to blast my tube amp with it to really get Fuzzed&Burned!
 

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Wrapped the seeing eye mod on my Ds-1, sounds great, still has that nirvana sound without the ice pick in the ear treble. Drilling out the O in tone tomorrow for the clipping diode to be viable outside the enclosure.
 

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Came back home from my mom’s with this, and about a half dozen reels with baby me on them.

I got it to run, and the bulb is still good, but the rubber on the autofeed wheel is deteriorated. So the film alternates between slack and tight while it jerks along. I think a makeshift piece in that spot might work ok.

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2024, I think it was this year, I worked out how to successfully (there had been some miss steps) design a PCB for something that wasn't available in PPCB land.
It sounded amazing. The extra boards got sent out to folk to try and build their own (buy me a beer, I'll send you a board type thing to cover postagee)
Then a couple of guys asked me to make one for them. So I made two more.
Didn't massively love making more without the new pedal buzz at the end but they were happy.


This year.
PCB ✅
Try some PCB assembly service with SMD parts ✅
Shrink it all down smaller than a 1590b? ✅
Decide to try a UV printing service ✅
Get excited and order far too many parts so I will be able to make a handful (!) ✅

Will I regret tying up all my pedal funds in one thing? Probably
Am I confident the board will work. Not 100%
Will I regret trying to fit everything in a gorva M45 with top jacks? Undoubtably
Will 2025 be boring? Nope
 
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