What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

Frets! A bit puzzled by their... Non-uniformity. Though this is how I see them on all veenas. I suppose the wax bar into which their are set for microtuning plays a role into why it doesn't matter that they are all different from eachother.

I'm building something to add these below my strings, because seeing frets underneath my slide is very, very helpful. Maybe I'll even figure a way to raise them by 5-10mm so I can play it as a regular veena as well?

So yeah, haven't done any soldering in a over a month. 🙈Took me two weeks to remove old varnish from the carved bits with an x-acto knife.

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HO HO HO!!

Santa brought me... a dead furnace.


Been up since the wee hours trying to get this thing to work.

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That's the flame sensor, needed cleaning, so I did with some #0000 steel wool.

Then while inserting it back in its place next to the igniter (orange wire)...

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...the sensor's shaft slid through its insulator.


So here I am trying to use a metal bracket from a flapper-valve thingamajigger removed from a previous repair on the furnace (something not critically necessary), hoping there's enough push on the white wire from below to keep the sensor in place and make the furnace work.

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It didn't work.





I don't think even Amazon will deliver a new flame-sensor same-day Gristmas Deh.


That's how things have been rolling lately, though, bumpier than a good MTB course. 😑









[UPDATE boxing day] : Re-kajiggered the sensormabob, numerous times, got it working, finally, sort of, about 2pm nearly 12 hours after it quit;
it still cuts out occassionally and then I have to kick start it. Mad props to the HVAC people on the forum, if I had your job I'd go insane.
Okay, more insaner. ]
 
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New on the workbench? Does that count? My brother / Santa gave me my first drill press for on my woodwork workbench. Well, one for my Dremel that is! It gets good reviews, unlike those clumsy, useless versions which have to hold an actual, heavy drill). Will mainly help me out while building the unexisting wooden tools he sometimes asks for, for his ceramic works. Hopefully it'll also help me with my holes-in-aluminum needs!

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tegendemuur said:
New on the workbench? Does that count? My brother / Santa gave me my first drill press for on my woodwork workbench. Well, one for my Dremel that is! It gets good reviews, unlike those clumsy, useless versions which have to hold an actual, heavy drill). Will mainly help me out while building the unexisting wooden tools he sometimes asks for, for his ceramic works. Hopefully it'll also help me with my holes-in-aluminum needs!

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I have been considering this. I would love to hear how you like it (for enclosure drilling)!
 
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Wrapped the seeing eye mod on my Ds-1, sounds great, still has that nirvana sound without the ice pick in the ear treble. Drilling out the O in tone tomorrow for the clipping diode to be viable outside the enclosure.
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Cool! The DS-1 was the first pedal I ever modded. For me it was the AMZ Fat Mod, in fact both my DS-1 still have them. It re-biases Q2 so the signal isn't so heavily distorted right out the gate. Helps the dist control have more range and actually clean up on lower settings.
 
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Cool! The DS-1 was the first pedal I ever modded. For me it was the AMZ Fat Mod, in fact both my DS-1 still have them. It re-biases Q2 so the signal isn't so heavily distorted right out the gate. Helps the dist control have more range and actually clean up on lower settings.
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Looks like I need to find yet ANOTHER DS-1 to try that one!

We have a ton locally but they are either SMD or the seller wants all the money for them. Probably should hit the pawn shops, they always seem to have them there.
 
I ordered this GuitarPCB board (Nostalgiatone Voodoo Redux) with a discount incentive but also to revisit an old haunt. I've been around for a very long time and I got my start thru GeneralGuitarGadgets and then TonePad. By the time Barry's site (GuitarPCB) came around the internet was just getting to be the DIY jump off point and his stuff featured demos with approachable Epiphone Les Paul thru a Twin that gave me an "everyman" reference point to everything he was offering. I built anything and everything he had to offer. Back in those days he was doing his own etches (as was Bean, who would surface later).

So flash forward a number of years and I'm building up this board to see how he's progressed. I don't recall ever having an issue with any of his boards and it's cool to see a nice tight layout with regard to the enclosure size as opposed to how tight a board. Nice symmetry with a logical layout.

I'm not done yet but if anything doesn't work it will be on me.

Just a nice shout out to one of the industry's long standing hero's.
 

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I reached out to amplifyfun.com to make a plexiglass faceplate for my old Carvin X-100 amp. It arrived the day after Xmas and I just got it installed today. Perfect fit. I had always wanted a clear faceplate for this amp since I bought it back in 2004 but never got around to it. I haven’t fired it up in 15 years because it was in storage in my parents basement but my brother recently brought it out to Chicago for me. I’m going to power it up later tonight to see if it’s working. I remember it being a fairly dark sounding Marshall sounding amp but we will see. I was dumb back then. image.jpg
 
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I reached out to amplifyfun.com to make a plexiglass faceplate for my old Carvin X-100 amp. It arrived the day after Xmas and I just got it installed today. Perfect fit. I had always wanted a clear faceplate for this amp since I bought it back in 2004 but never got around to it. I haven’t fired it up in 15 years because it was in storage in my parents basement but my brother recently brought it out to Chicago for me. I’m going to power it up later tonight to see if it’s working. I remember it being a fairly dark sounding Marshall sounding amp but we will see. I was dumb back then. View attachment 87843
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super cool. never seen or played one.
does it operate like a mesa mark?
 
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super cool. never seen or played one.
does it operate like a mesa mark?
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No, I don't think so. But I have never played a Mesa. I'm not sure what's really going on with this amp. I bought it used in 2005. It had been modded a bunch when I bought it too. I am going to plug it in later on tonight and see how it sounds.
 
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No, I don't think so. But I have never played a Mesa. I'm not sure what's really going on with this amp. I bought it used in 2005. It had been modded a bunch when I bought it too. I am going to plug it in later on tonight and see how it sounds.
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interesting.

just asking cos I'm struggling to figure out why one would design a guitar amplifier this way with both TMB controls and a 5BEQ, and it not being inspired by what the mesa mark series does in some way (with TMB controls typically after the very first input gain stage to shape the texture/fatness/tightness of the drive character and then the 5BEQ to do what an EQ normally does, after all the preamp gain)
 
Accomplished my year end goal of implementing SMD into my PCB’s. This is a Lightspeed and 808 in a 125B. I made some miscalculations when drilling, but I’ve developed a nack for making it work after all the goofs over the years lol
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