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Got another commission for a Dandy Horse 😮‍💨
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Customer is gonna have a vinyl decal applied to ape the looks of the OG, so we went with a bare box.

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And, that's the last of my commission queue. I get off work early tomorrow, and I'm gonna try my dang diddly darndest to get caught up, or at least started, on build reports and demos.
 
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About 7 years ago I bought an "Offset Series" Mustang for $350 brand new. It was.... bad. I The stock bridge rusted after a single show, and the pickups howled with any serious gain

I put on locking tuners, a Hipshot bridge that was too low and fucked with my intonation, Seymour Duncans, and a bone nut. It served me well through many sketchy gigs I didn't want to bring something nicer to, and even made it onto some recording sessions. By all accounts, it has been a good guitar for its purposes. The thing is... that isn't enough. The pots suck, the bridge needs shimming, the switch wiring is awful and has at least 40g of solder on it, it came with a ground loop, and it doesn't have a built-in overdrive. Fortunately, all of these things can be fixed!

I'll check in tomorrow when I'm not hammered drunk and let you all know how it all fits together
 

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steviejr92 said:
Ok so here’s my first first ever mill job. Although it’s a failure because it didn’t cut all the way through I still think it came out really good. Figured out the CAM side of things took a bit but it paid off! I’m going to make some adjustments with the height zeroing and that should fix this problem! Looking forward to seeing what the enclosures will come out like when I get it right!
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Are you using a heightmap when you run the Gcode? I use Candle mostly, and the heightmap is the way to go with anything metal which may have slight irregularities in the surface. I also have a User command stored to run my absolute 0 of the Z right off the surface of the metal I am working with. The Z probe is of less help when it comes to metal, for my purposes.
 
MBFX said:
About 7 years ago I bought an "Offset Series" Mustang for $350 brand new. It was.... bad. I The stock bridge rusted after a single show, and the pickups howled with any serious gain

I put on locking tuners, a Hipshot bridge that was too low and fucked with my intonation, Seymour Duncans, and a bone nut. It served me well through many sketchy gigs I didn't want to bring something nicer to, and even made it onto some recording sessions. By all accounts, it has been a good guitar for its purposes. The thing is... that isn't enough. The pots suck, the bridge needs shimming, the switch wiring is awful and has at least 40g of solder on it, it came with a ground loop, and it doesn't have a built-in overdrive. Fortunately, all of these things can be fixed!

I'll check in tomorrow when I'm not hammered drunk and let you all know how it all fits together
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Got drunk and took my crappy guitar apart.
Can't get it back together.
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Cheers! Good luck getting her fixed up!
 
cliffs_trip said:
Are you using a heightmap when you run the Gcode? I use Candle mostly, and the heightmap is the way to go with anything metal which may have slight irregularities in the surface. I also have a User command stored to run my absolute 0 of the Z right off the surface of the metal I am working with. The Z probe is of less help when it comes to metal, for my purposes.
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I have not run a height map! I’m going to figure out how to do that today and try again! Thank you for the suggestion! Ive seen height maps ran before milling pcbs but I didn’t think about it for this process!
 
IMG_0104.jpeg Hi, this is my first post. I built a few kits here and there, in decades past. I came here because I plan to replace my syb-3 with the curds & whey, it’s the closest thing I found to syb-3’s modes 8 and 9, which I have come to learn is called “wavefolding” by some.

This is all very interesting to me. I am a computer programmer by trade, and to me looking inside an analog pedal is just like viewing the “source code”, really fascinating.

I’m just getting started though.
 
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View attachment 64311Hi, this is my first post. I built a few kits here and there, in decades past. I came here because I plan to replace my syb-3 with the curds & whey, it’s the closest thing I found to syb-3’s modes 8 and 9, which I have come to learn is called “wavefolding” by some.

This is all very interesting to me. I am a computer programmer by trade, and to me looking inside an analog pedal is just like viewing the “source code”, really fascinating.

I’m just getting started though.
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Nice choice on your first project! Not the simplest circuit but when you get it going, I highly doubt you'll be disappointed. One of my all time favorites.
 
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