What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

This was a near failed etch that, while I went upstairs to retrieve water, the etchant got so hot it melted the laser printer resist off of the enclosure. So, far from perfect but perfectly servicable. It was really an experiment/test anyhow so having something functional in the end is really just a bonus.
Going in is a prototype PCB for @jessenator 's clops/Chicago Clops board. It is based off a project from a member on the madbean forums a few years back going for the othernon-bigmuff tones from Siamese Dream(hence the labels). If I'm lucky enough to acquire a final rev PCB, then I'll apply a little more finesse to the final project. But hey, we step on them after all.
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I re-inventoried my backlog today looking for stuff I want to build in the near future. The good news is that I built and gave away a lot of stuff since the last time I updated my spreadsheet, but the bad news was that a lot of projects also got added and I think it's even longer now. It was helpful to realize there's stuff i definitely don't want to build
 
joeyd said:
Years ago my sister put a warmoth telecaster together. The neck had the perfect dimensions for my hands. So naturally, rather than order the same neck from warmoth, I found a Canadian luthier to build me the same thing. When I finally got the instrument I was blown away by how it looked but the neck felt like it had been finished with chewing gum. Absolute dogshit playability. And the pickups sounded like muddy garbage. I did some light sanding on the neck to improve it, replaced the pickups, but it was never as good as my other guitars.

I finally decided to just sand the thing down to the wood. Refinished in osmo polyx (as god intended).

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The body used a toploader bridge, which gave a pretty inadequate break angle. So I drilled that out too. It's vastly improved but arguably looks a bit worse. Pics because the walnut top is hot.

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That Tele body is the bee's knees. I love the single coil and mini hum combo.
 
Hey everyone!

So here’s my first ever anodized parts…the pictures aren’t capturing the color as it looks almost black but this is olive drab!

I need to still make some tweaks in the process. There are some spots where I think due to not cleaning thoroughly did not anodize correctly. I think the next color will be orange!
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bean said:
That Tele body is the bee's knees. I love the single coil and mini hum combo.
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The top came from Oregon wild wood. They consistently have some of the most beautiful pieces of Claro walnut in stock.

I'm not going to take a picture because it bums me out too much but the person who built this guitar left a piece of painters tape below the binding on the lower horn and finished over it. Part of me wants to strip the finish, remove the tape and refinish but the required amount of sanding is daunting. I might just slap some skull stickers on it and call it a day.
 
Newly rolled fingerboard, recontoured upper horn, and a new onboard preamp with separate per-pickup EQ and an active mixer section:

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Neck pickup feeds Bass/Mids Baxandall EQ section, bridge pickup runs through a resonant LPF section with a Q switch. Can be easily reconfigured to stereo output if desired, as there's a spare conductor available on the 4 pin XLR and the matching cable already.
 
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In the photo they have that granular 3D printed look. Regardless this is very cool. I'm not on Instagram so not a clue but looking forward to your store being open.
 
Gordo said:
In the photo they have that granular 3D printed look. Regardless this is very cool. I'm not on Instagram so not a clue but looking forward to your store being open.
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I want to say the scotch brite finish is what you’re seeing along with the coloring dye it gives that granulated look!
 
This weekend's project: an inline booster. Goes straight after a pickup, tucked in the control cavity (or even stuck to the pickup's back, making it active with varigain). Primary goal is level matching between dissimilar pickups (say, single and humbucker), or between two different basses that don't have gain trimpots.

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