KreoPensas
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Oh, wait, the other mess kinda looks more like an eq
What’s on *YOUR* workbench?
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KreoPensas
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And by all rights. that's a hollow body.
Just my M. O.
KreoPensas
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Nothing is *really* yours unless you can take it apart.
drgonzo1969
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Man! That thing is too cool! Nice find!NGD. Random partscaster that I just had to buy based on looks and quirkiness factor. Somebody clearly put a lot of time into it. Found a bunch of electronics inside. Does anybody have any idea what they are?
Neck is Mighty Mite with ebony fretboard and Gotoh tuners
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MichaelW
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Looks fine to me. It's not touching........I have plenty of pedals like that!
MichaelW
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Is the "smear" intended? Looks cool!
jessenator
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Experiments. So far, so good.
swelchy
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Thanks! Yup.... I generally add some sort of movement in graphics so they don't look too sterile... I'm not much of an artist so I use adobe Ai to dream up images until it spits out something I like... I'm really digging having the laser so I'm not stuck doing waterslides.. I'm not disciplined enough to learn how to do setup for UV printing yet.. I want to learn how to create pcbs first.. I tend to use the word melting or melted a lot when generating images.. Something about Salvador Dali that sticks with me and his melting images.
MichaelW
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Well I posted couple weeks ago about my latest Strat build, which turned out disappointing because the body was not well made, and the color, which was supposed to be Shoreline Gold turned out to be more FireMist/Aztec.
But for $89 I wasn't going to get too upset. I mean, it's fine, it just wasn't quite what I was expecting.
The biggest issue for me was that for "roasted poplar" it should have been at least a pound lighter than it actually was. At 4.5lbs it made for a heavier than I prefer strat.
Also, color wise it was way too close to my existing "Goldie" strat with the BloomDoom FireMist body.
Anyway, despite the fact that it played well and sounded great, I decided to tinker with it some more. I ordered an Allen Eden body in Paulownia.
I gotta say, I've been impressed with the quality of the Allen Eden bodies and paint jobs. This is a fairly recent development. I remember buying a body from them a few years ago that was really poorly made and I returned it. They were very open to feedback to what I didn't like about it and I gave them a pretty candid list of things I would like to see changed. Like the neck pocket, body radius, finish, etc,
Well whether or not my feedback had anything to do with it or not, they seemed to have addressed all the issues. And as it gets harder and harder to get light weight bodies in Alder or Ash, I love the fact that they are offering Paulownia as an option. Paulownia is a lightweight, very resonant, soft-ish wood. I would compare it closely to Basswood and Poplar. The downside if Paulownia is that it's not a very pretty wood. It's streaky and the grain typically has a lot of mineral streaks. So not a great wood for transparent colors.
When I got the body for "Blackie" I was pretty blown away by how light it was and how resonant it was. Even with a polyurethane finish it's a great sounding guitar. Blackie came in at just a touch under 3lbs. I decided to order a replacement body for "Goldie II" from Allen Eden and got another Paulownia body in Seafoam Green. When I opened the package and picked up the body for the first time I was astounding, it felt like a styrofoam body it was so light. When I threw it on the scale it was a touch under 2 lbs! That's just crazy for a solid wood strat body.
Like Blackie, it was a well made body with a perfect finish. The neck pocket was a perfect fit. I didn't think a maple neck would go with the Seafoam so I did a bit of neck swapping. I took the rosewood neck off my Honeyburst strat and put it on the Seafoam body and put the maple on the burst. It really came out good and sounds and plays great. It's got a set of Texas Special Clones from WAAH pickups in there right now.
Total weight of the guitar, this is the lightest solid body guitar I own.
The burst with the roasted maple neck...
I'm not settled on the maple neck on this body and may be looking for another rosewood neck for this guitar. I dunno, gonna live with it for a bit.
So anyway, "Goldie II" has been renamed "Foamy" and joins the ranks of its siblings.
Edit: adding one more pic and giving a shout out for the MG Chemicals Total Ground Carbon Conductive Paint.
It's not inexpensive but 1 single aerosol can goes a long way and can go quite a few cavities.
However, I've found that there's a downside. It doesn't adhere well to certain finishes for some reason and will "bead up" as it dries. I've tried using primer under it and it still does it. The "Foamy" when I painted the cavity yesterday, I tried something different. I soaked a rag in acetone and wiped the insides of the cavity really well. Even though the finish is a polyurethane finish and should be stable even with acetone, it made a difference and the shielding paint worked well.
I may start re-doing some of my other single coil guitars with less than stellar shielding jobs at the next string change. What's amazing about this paint is that when applied correctly it's the quietest and most transparent shielding I've ever used. Better than foil tape and nickel based paints.
But for $89 I wasn't going to get too upset. I mean, it's fine, it just wasn't quite what I was expecting.
The biggest issue for me was that for "roasted poplar" it should have been at least a pound lighter than it actually was. At 4.5lbs it made for a heavier than I prefer strat.
Also, color wise it was way too close to my existing "Goldie" strat with the BloomDoom FireMist body.
Anyway, despite the fact that it played well and sounded great, I decided to tinker with it some more. I ordered an Allen Eden body in Paulownia.
I gotta say, I've been impressed with the quality of the Allen Eden bodies and paint jobs. This is a fairly recent development. I remember buying a body from them a few years ago that was really poorly made and I returned it. They were very open to feedback to what I didn't like about it and I gave them a pretty candid list of things I would like to see changed. Like the neck pocket, body radius, finish, etc,
Well whether or not my feedback had anything to do with it or not, they seemed to have addressed all the issues. And as it gets harder and harder to get light weight bodies in Alder or Ash, I love the fact that they are offering Paulownia as an option. Paulownia is a lightweight, very resonant, soft-ish wood. I would compare it closely to Basswood and Poplar. The downside if Paulownia is that it's not a very pretty wood. It's streaky and the grain typically has a lot of mineral streaks. So not a great wood for transparent colors.
When I got the body for "Blackie" I was pretty blown away by how light it was and how resonant it was. Even with a polyurethane finish it's a great sounding guitar. Blackie came in at just a touch under 3lbs. I decided to order a replacement body for "Goldie II" from Allen Eden and got another Paulownia body in Seafoam Green. When I opened the package and picked up the body for the first time I was astounding, it felt like a styrofoam body it was so light. When I threw it on the scale it was a touch under 2 lbs! That's just crazy for a solid wood strat body.
Like Blackie, it was a well made body with a perfect finish. The neck pocket was a perfect fit. I didn't think a maple neck would go with the Seafoam so I did a bit of neck swapping. I took the rosewood neck off my Honeyburst strat and put it on the Seafoam body and put the maple on the burst. It really came out good and sounds and plays great. It's got a set of Texas Special Clones from WAAH pickups in there right now.
Total weight of the guitar, this is the lightest solid body guitar I own.
The burst with the roasted maple neck...
I'm not settled on the maple neck on this body and may be looking for another rosewood neck for this guitar. I dunno, gonna live with it for a bit.
So anyway, "Goldie II" has been renamed "Foamy" and joins the ranks of its siblings.
Edit: adding one more pic and giving a shout out for the MG Chemicals Total Ground Carbon Conductive Paint.
It's not inexpensive but 1 single aerosol can goes a long way and can go quite a few cavities.
However, I've found that there's a downside. It doesn't adhere well to certain finishes for some reason and will "bead up" as it dries. I've tried using primer under it and it still does it. The "Foamy" when I painted the cavity yesterday, I tried something different. I soaked a rag in acetone and wiped the insides of the cavity really well. Even though the finish is a polyurethane finish and should be stable even with acetone, it made a difference and the shielding paint worked well.
I may start re-doing some of my other single coil guitars with less than stellar shielding jobs at the next string change. What's amazing about this paint is that when applied correctly it's the quietest and most transparent shielding I've ever used. Better than foil tape and nickel based paints.
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vigilante398
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I hear those toaster ovens are rare and valuable #iKnowWhatIHave
JasonWickersham
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Fama
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Theremin fuzz is boxed, tracking didn't really work in the Quad Cortex FX loop, but works decently with the pedal before the QC. Could be some noise throwing it off, could be an impedance issue maybe? Either way it's such a niche pedal it's not really a big issue.
Here's a sound sample. Kinda hard to play fast, I feel like I have to play slowly to make sure the tracking catches up.
Guilherme Collateral
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Silver Blues
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You are killing it, that looks amazing!
swelchy
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Nobelman I tried to finish up last night… tested this morning and it sounds like a gated fuzz.. it’s farting out.. It’s a tribute to my late father.. My dad passed in 2006 from a motorcycle crash.. His nickname was Rooster and it would be his birthday today.. Might be starting a troubleshooting thread if I can’t find something simple I missed..
jessenator
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some weirdness I wasn't expecting. I scanned the faceplate so I could accurately get hole positions, but even with the small amount of offness (too much to the left by maybe 1-1.5mm) some of those are just bad. blarg. try again, I suppose.