What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

When you need an A250K dual gang pot and Tayda only has the direct mount ones...

It fits, it works, therefore my conversion is good.

That's a cut down orange plastic plectrum superglued to the bottom, in case you're wondering. I could get away without it for this pedal but since it's very little trouble I did it anyway.

EDIT: "Before" pic added.

I also soldered some MMBFJ201s to adaptor boards and did the resistor-leg thing with them too. All tested and working well.
 

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It's not really on my bench now, but yesterday I completely rewired my new to me telecaster deluxe. While the guitar plays great, like most companies fender cuts corners on electronics in spots. While it had cts pots they were 250k, which seems like a cost cutting measure because humbuckers should have 500k pots to not be dark and or muddy. Also the switch felt cheap AF and so did the jack, and an electrosocket because they are the best thing ever on a tele. Im using orange drop caps and made some treble bleeds as well. All quality parts are being used. As much as I wanted to be like @MichaelW and use the shielding paint, 2023 is the year of using what we already have and I had a ton of foil left over from the roll I bought when I built my blue tele.

Im starting with shielding because it's noisy where I live, I have a power transformer in my neighborhood and every little bit helps.
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Look at the wiring all over the place😑😭
Pickguard next
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Taking shape.
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In one of the pictures above you can see fender used the worst wiring for the pickups. It's the thinnest like 30g wire in a thick shielded rubber sleeve that sucks. So I removed the leads and put proper shielded push back wiring on the pickups.
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And here it is all done and before I put it back on the guitar and wired the output jack. Now it sounds as good as it plays.
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Here's the entire world population of my Rockman-esque pedal design. I'm afraid it's not DIY-friendly, the way I did it -- but it fits in a 1590B, which it has no right to.

I really wish I could focus on developing and building just the plug-in analog brain (circled in yellow), so people could build their own pedal or some other embodiment around it.... Do you know anybody who designs DIY-friendly pedal PCBs? ;) A much easier to build "motherboard" PCB could be made, with commonly used pedal parts -- but it would need a bigger enclosure. Maybe a 1590BB.

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