What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

You might remember that my GF moved in and she took over my workbench so she could work from home.
Yada yada yada I have a workbench again.

So a bunch of fuzz circuits are gonna be dug out today: Tone Bender MKI, MIK1.5, MKII, MKIII, Companion FY-2 and Fuzzrites, all in various states of disarray. Here's a top down view of my life right now:

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Update: my bench is gone again. However I have a package coming from Banzai with a few enclosures and eyelet boards. Some of these are getting built one way or another. Plus I'm gonna have to reopen and rewire the Jazzmaster anyway. Looks like I'll have to use the floor.
 
A proper Tone Bender MK 1.5 with leaky transistors (unused Silicon trannies in the background from when this was an Eric Johnson FF):

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Q1 GC116D hFE 59 leakage 303 Vc 0.260V
Q2 GC116D hFE 85 leakage 596 Vc 8.1V

Josh Scott was right, even with the bigger caps this does sound brighter than a Fuzz Face.
Resistance on Q2c is 680R + 7k = 7k68. Lowering the voltage close to 5V makes it sound fatter and darker, losing that edge.
 
Last night after 1am I pulled out all my soldering stuff and fixed my Jazzmaster. I removed the treble bleed, which was screechy and it turned the linear pot into a reverse log, and replaced the 33nF tone cap with a 100nF. The tone control is still garbage, very little change and then all of a sudden mudtown. Must be the 1M audio pot. Isn't there a way to have a gradual decrease in brightness without lowering the value of the pot?
 
Once I make whatever tweaks and additions, my next step will be to learn how to convert a schematic to vero or perf.
starting out I would look up someone elses and carefully add my changes and bits and bobs like a minimum gain resistor etc. its much easier to build a few going from breadboard to vero with an existing layout to start seeing the process. I am still not even close to just taking a piece of vero and building from a schematic.
 
starting out I would look up someone elses and carefully add my changes and bits and bobs like a minimum gain resistor etc. its much easier to build a few going from breadboard to vero with an existing layout to start seeing the process. I am still not even close to just taking a piece of vero and building from a schematic.
Maybe I’ll draw it up in KiCad and build in on perf.
 
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