What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

of course I couldn’t resist and had a go at breadboarding the Nine Ball Overdrive.
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since i comfortably fitted the eight ball overdrive on the same board, i thought it’d be about the same with the nine, but turns out i was wrong and it’s about 50% bigger than the eight.
bit of a mess, but it works well.
IC1 - TL072
IC2 - LF353
IC3 - 4558

the eight ball overdrive / JCM800 pedal was surprisingly good and so i had high hopes for the JCM900 counterpart..
initially i wasn’t that impressed with the sound.
but that was after i had spent a couple hours looking for errors when it didn’t work at first… 🥵

so i tried again today after a break and i reckon it’s alright.
doesn’t quite have the natural responsive feel i got from the eight ball, but it’s still undeniably marshally and does the kerrang thing well.

tried to capture some of that tonight, hopefully this isn’t too cringe and does it some justice
 
Popped the grain with my mix of colored grain filler over the original paint, then clear.
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Next I had to carve out a shim for the dogear. People seem to lump these together like Fender single coils. The poles aren't the magnets. So they sound much better closer to the strings like a humbucker. The guitar sounds nice and aggressive
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Waiting on a pick guard and I'm done. Had to angle the break angle at the nut for the dreaded g string. The 3 and 3 headstock is really bad when it comes to the D and G angles.
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I'm one of the weirdos who likes treble bleeds over 50s wiring.
 
I picked up a new project the other day. I was finally able to find a cheap drum set in the exact sizes I wanted to make into a nesting kit. This is a drum set where the drums split apart so they can fit inside each other for easy transportation. As a bonus, it's the same series as my very first drum set 20 years ago.

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Disassembling these brought me back to musicals and winter percussion in high school
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So a couple nights ago I stayed up 'til 3:30 in the morning, prepping the mod I've posted for insertion into the circuit/build...

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I didn't have the correct sized shrink-tube, so I had to use oversized, but it all fits easily into the build. Getting all 8 pots and 5 switches to line up with the enclosure, however... well I used this parts bin and tacked the middle-finger of the pots and switches and finally managed to get it all to fit in the enclosure but only after REAMING OUT 😾 some of the pre-drilled enclosure's holes... No wonder I didn't finish 'til 3:30am — but wait!
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THERE's MORE...!
I've STILL got to put in the jacks and solder up the rest of the pots' lugs and switch-lugs, AND solder in the mod's wiring.
FRUSTRATED ! So close to finishing but... Haven't been able to get back to it because of what lies below...




MEANWHILE
The breadboarded Bosstone was transferred from the Auditorium make-shift breadboard to the MicroProtoboard, as I'd finished a transformer experiment on the MP... and FRUSTRATION... I got my friend over to have a listen to the mods on the Bosstone and it's NOT WORKING.
Last time a breadboard-project didn't work for me it was from having copied down 390k instead of 390r ...
I'm pretty sure I've got all values correct this time, but no time to trouble shoot because of what lies below...

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WHAT LIES BELOW:

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Friend I'm building the Bosstone for is helping me build a composter — it and other fall-chores are taking up all my pedal-building time... 🤬
 
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