What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

Robert said:
But what Bricks did not consider is that I hold a grudge, like forever, so I'll just start posting in here from now on. :ROFLMAO:

So today we have the MXR Custom Badass '78 Distortion, thanks to one of our kind members here.... and it's a good thing, because I've found a value or two different from the existing trace.

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The more the merrier! Now you need to start sharing the non-work stuff you’ve got on your workbench too—
Didn’t you say you had a guitar to rewire or something like that? Any mods for the new Tele?
 
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Feral Feline said:
Well, looks like I only missed the first and fifth pages, as I found my comments all over the rest of the thread.


As for what's on my bench, well it wasn't my bench it was my friend's welding bench, and I burst my cherry yesterday...


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MY FIRST WELD EVER!




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SNAKES ALIVE! Still an improvement over the first one.


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MUCH BETTER!
Yet still lots of room for improvement, lots more were like the first, a smattering of the snake and a few good ones like the last.

Project was some basic storage-rackage. Three of us building the racks in a fourth friend's garage, none of us professional welders — as one friend said: "The blind leading and teaching the blind." Sure as hell are blind once that helmet comes down over your face and eyes. Was on my bucket list.

I left the bicycle industry before I got a chance to learn welding, so this was exceptionally cool to be able to try it in an informal setting where the end-product wasn't going to the alter of public consumption/criticism. I've always loved and appreciated well-made welds on bike frames (car & motorcycles, too), but of course that appreciation always goes up leaps and bounds after trying something yourself — such as building pedals, amps and instruments.

Sure was fun, and I look forward to doing more welding in future, I could use the practice.
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Awesome! Better than my welding— then again that’s because I’ve still never welded anything before, so all of my welds are infinitesimally insufficient ;)
I’d love to get into welding. I’m probably going to get to do plenty of welding in the sculpture studio next semester, and then I think I can take a full-on sculptural welding class the following semester. My dad did a ton of welding stuff when he was in college, and he said it was a ton of fun. Might try to convince my dad to go splitzies on a welding rig and a powder coating setup for our garage workspace in the springtime.

What welding projects do you have planned for the future? Any full-scale Death Stars or Mecha-Godzillas?
 
You've inspired me sir. I had no specific thoughts on future projects, apart from waiting for the right hotrod project to come along, but...

A Tyrannosaurus Rex sculpture for my nephew would be cool!

Maybe a Boba Fet Helmet backyard-fire-pit cover for my brother... different layers and perforations to cast flame-flicker on the various levels of distressed metals...
 
Diynot said:
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Thumbsucker, Desolate fuzz, and @Chuck D. Bones and @cooder Electric mama flanger. No BOM? No problem. First TL072 went on pretty easy, the second is ugly, but attached. Have to wait and see if I fried the poor buggers.
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I just populated a Thumbsucker. I'll have to wait for the enclosure to add the pots and switch. First time soldering a transistor directly. I feel like a grown up though I still used sockets for the ICs.
 
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Feral Feline said:
Well, looks like I only missed the first and fifth pages, as I found my comments all over the rest of the thread.


As for what's on my bench, well it wasn't my bench it was my friend's welding bench, and I burst my cherry yesterday...


View attachment 32075

MY FIRST WELD EVER!




View attachment 32076

SNAKES ALIVE! Still an improvement over the first one.


View attachment 32077

MUCH BETTER!
Yet still lots of room for improvement, lots more were like the first, a smattering of the snake and a few good ones like the last.

Project was some basic storage-rackage. Three of us building the racks in a fourth friend's garage, none of us professional welders — as one friend said: "The blind leading and teaching the blind." Sure as hell are blind once that helmet comes down over your face and eyes. Was on my bucket list.

I left the bicycle industry before I got a chance to learn welding, so this was exceptionally cool to be able to try it in an informal setting where the end-product wasn't going to the alter of public consumption/criticism. I've always loved and appreciated well-made welds on bike frames (car & motorcycles, too), but of course that appreciation always goes up leaps and bounds after trying something yourself — such as building pedals, amps and instruments.

Sure was fun, and I look forward to doing more welding in future, I could use the practice.
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That looks great! Like…er other things, it’s all about penetration. Too much and you lose structural intergrity, too little and you never had it to start with. I never did any serious structural welding, but I remember having to slink into a 500-gal compartment tank on a fuel truck and repair a split bulkhead. Tight!
 
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thewintersoldier said:
You can have it, run it into the ground, smear my reputation thru the mudd (not like I haven't done a good enough job doing that myself) and then close shop and tell everyone to get bent.
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You sure about that?
I'll bathe my eyes in a river of salt
I'll grow myself right up to the sky
I'll sing in the forest, tear down the trees
I'll foul all the fountains and trample the leaves
I'll blacken your Christmas and piss on your door
You'll cry out for mercy, but still there'll be more…
Still there’ll be more!
 
I wish the tailpiece had the butterfly, the curved bits of the tailpiece would lend well to it...

Holy crap! Trying to find a clean simple example of the Ibanez Flying Finger is a F***n' nightmare!

Blurry shots of pickups with it, low resolution scans of past adverts... Found a t-shirt, and then this:

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To give an idea what it might look like on the tailpiece...

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Feral Feline said:
I wish the tailpiece had the butterfly, the curved bits of the tailpiece would lend well to it...

Holy crap! Trying to find a clean simple example of the Ibanez Flying Finger is a F***n' nightmare!

Blurry shots of pickups with it, low resolution scans of past adverts... Found a t-shirt, and then this:

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To give an idea what it might look like on the tailpiece...

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That’s the cleanest example of the butterfly I’ve ever seen, and pretty much no perspective distortion.
 
Feral Feline said:
I wish the tailpiece had the butterfly, the curved bits of the tailpiece would lend well to it...

Holy crap! Trying to find a clean simple example of the Ibanez Flying Finger is a F***n' nightmare!

Blurry shots of pickups with it, low resolution scans of past adverts... Found a t-shirt, and then this:

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To give an idea what it might look like on the tailpiece...

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Not sure if this is any better but:

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On my bench: playing around with digital potentiometers again. Here's a time of flight (distance, more or less) sensor controlling an LED. Could replicate the zvex probe series antenna control with just a few components. In low light it was able to measure about 100mm really accurately. With better lighting it can go a little bit higher.

 
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