DGWVI
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These are custom stamps with the parameters on em. I'll snap a pic when I get home
What’s on *YOUR* workbench?
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Erik S
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That makes way more sense!
They look great. I like the whole vibe. All black, many knobs, good labels.
DGWVI
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DGWVI
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This is all hand twisted solid core wire. If I were using stranded, I'd be more inclined to use a drill
GizzWizzKing
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I need a pedal cabinet for my bathroom too. Good call
Fama
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Friend's GUMA-Antique, Schalltechnik's darkglass clone. I tried to help him troubleshoot it online a couple of times, but of course that's hard.
He dropped it off to me, and by random luck I managed to find the issue in 10 minutes!
Turns out one pole on the switch was not working, possibly fried. But thankfully it uses a DPDT switch where only one pole was in use (possibly due to needing a latching switch?) so I just moved the wires over to the other pole and now it works!
He dropped it off to me, and by random luck I managed to find the issue in 10 minutes!
Turns out one pole on the switch was not working, possibly fried. But thankfully it uses a DPDT switch where only one pole was in use (possibly due to needing a latching switch?) so I just moved the wires over to the other pole and now it works!
BuddytheReow
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Gonna be putting some DiMarzio pickups in my kit build. Fingers crossed for some serious toan.
drgonzo1969
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I built this strat a while ago from Amazon and guitarfetish parts. The bridge studs were way too far forward so I had to plug and redrill. I added a big brass claw on the back and swapped out the middle pickup with another higher output single coil. Now I’m finally getting it back together. Dimarzio Billy corgan pickups in the neck and bridge. Gilmour switch added. Yngwe Malmsteen brass nut (this thing fucking rocks). Push/push coil split. Mojotone PIO caps. Treble bleed circuit. Decoboom pickguard, cavity cover and neck plate. TrueTone output. I think that covers it
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Harry Klippton
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I just glued up my cabinet
I hope it was Hide Glue or it will lose it's Mojo!
Harry Klippton
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Titebond original
drgonzo1969
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What kind of tolex you gonna throw on there?
drgonzo1969
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steviejr92
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So I finally finished my shed/workplace! Shes small inside but i think i made some good use of the space! Im an amateur with all the insulation so if something looks out of wack blame it on me! 
Chicken Wing Audio is back in business!
Left side:
This side consists of my belt sander for when i need to shape my enclosures and I left extra room to work on that side if need be. I will be working on that side most of the time!
Center back wall:
As you can see the A/C unit is on a cabinet. The A/C exhaust hose is only 5 ft in length not allowing the unit to sit on the floor :/
The solution will be to order a longer hose and replace it. For now though this is the only thing bumming me out! Today I built a 2 tier shelving unit that is but 1ft x 4ft. I wanted to put the left over wood to good use and not have it go to waste so i think this was a good move. This holds all my various tools and whatnot.
Right side:
This is where most of the enclosure building will be happening! Here we have the bench shears, drill press, and metal brake. Today i also built an extra workbench that has casters to roll it around. I keep it under this workbench so i can easily pull it out when i need more room to work on.
This was my first time doing anything like this so blame me for any ugliness that you may see but its my little workshop and im pretty happy!
Chicken Wing Audio is back in business!Left side:
This side consists of my belt sander for when i need to shape my enclosures and I left extra room to work on that side if need be. I will be working on that side most of the time!
Center back wall:
As you can see the A/C unit is on a cabinet. The A/C exhaust hose is only 5 ft in length not allowing the unit to sit on the floor :/
The solution will be to order a longer hose and replace it. For now though this is the only thing bumming me out! Today I built a 2 tier shelving unit that is but 1ft x 4ft. I wanted to put the left over wood to good use and not have it go to waste so i think this was a good move. This holds all my various tools and whatnot.
Right side:
This is where most of the enclosure building will be happening! Here we have the bench shears, drill press, and metal brake. Today i also built an extra workbench that has casters to roll it around. I keep it under this workbench so i can easily pull it out when i need more room to work on.
This was my first time doing anything like this so blame me for any ugliness that you may see but its my little workshop and im pretty happy!
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Fama
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This little bastard, or rather my lack of planning, impatience and shitty soldering.
I installed the @JTEX Activator on my Strat and had issues with fitting all the wires in nicely (hint, the wiring is not nice because I'm impatient and I also modded it way back when I was even worse at soldering). At one point some random wire came out and I thought it was a ground wire, which it was not, and as pictured I also failed at soldering the white wire - it's not actually making contact on the left lug, it's just passing through the hole.
I fixed it and taped down the wires a bit more and now it works as it should, except apparently I soldered it like shit again and sometimes I go into "low cut" mode when I want unity buffer and I need to push down on the tone pot to get it fixed. I'll re-solder it again to fix that at some point, but for now I've had it with loosening and tightening the strings so I can get the faceplate off.
Maybe I should get some copper tape or something and tape up the cavities too, while I'm at it.
Laundryroom David
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Fantastic!!!So I finally finished my shed/workplace! Shes small inside but i think i made some good use of the space! Im an amateur with all the insulation so if something looks out of wack blame it on me!
Left side:
This side consists of my belt sander for when i need to shape my enclosures and I left extra room to work on that side if need be. I will be working on that side most of the time!
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Center back wall:
As you can see the A/C unit is on a cabinet. The A/C exhaust hose is only 5 ft in length not allowing the unit to sit on the floor :/
The solution will be to order a longer hose and replace it. For now though this is the only thing bumming me out! Today I built a 2 tier shelving unit that is but 1ft x 4ft. I wanted to put the left over wood to good use and not have it go to waste so i think this was a good move. This holds all my various tools and whatnot.
View attachment 53460
Right side:
This is where most of the enclosure building will be happening! Here we have the bench shears, drill press, and metal brake. Today i also built an extra workbench that has casters to roll it around. I keep it under this workbench so i can easily pull it out when i need more room to work on.
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This was my first time doing anything like this so blame me for any ugliness that you may see but its my little workshop and im pretty happy!
steviejr92
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Thank you so much!
JTEX
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If it's any consolation, my own guitars' wiring jobs usually end up really messy by the time I'm done with all the mods, tweaks, afterthoughts, experiments etc. Electrical tape and heat shrink tubing usually take care of things such as "it does something funny if I push down just-so in this or that spot".
Fama
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Yep, taping down the wires so they take up less space worked fine for me, and overall it's amazing how little space the Axtivator takes up. I just need to touch up on the shoddy soldering which is my own issue.
Btw, I didn't see it explicitly mentioned anywhere, but I assume unplugging the guitar stops the battery from draining?