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Got a new car door handle in the mail today. The other one mysteriously broke. Hopefully I’ll get that put on this weekend.
The car door handle works perfectly. Now I don't have to crawl in from the passenger side to roll the driver-side window open so I can walk around to the driver's side and open the door. It was DIY pedal building that gave me the confidence to fix things, so there's that.
 
I just got a shipment of Germanium transistors. ASY34S, OC1074 and OC1076. Fingers crossed that there are some leaky ones for my Tone benders.
There are more Polish trannies to come but the vendor is super busy and who knows when he's going to ship them.

Meanwhile I've printed a few of these cards:

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I forgot to post this, but I got my new amp on Friday, a Ceriatone DZ30 (clone of Matchless DC30).

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But of course I can't leave well enough alone, so I rewrapped the front panel to match my cabinet and added the Matchless logo. I have the panel routed out behind the logo so I can add the lights like Matchless does, but I forgot to order the lights so I obviously haven't installed them yet.

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I forgot to post this, but I got my new amp on Friday, a Ceriatone DZ30 (clone of Matchless DC30).

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But of course I can't leave well enough alone, so I rewrapped the front panel to match my cabinet and added the Matchless logo. I have the panel routed out behind the logo so I can add the lights like Matchless does, but I forgot to order the lights so I obviously haven't installed them yet.

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How does it sound? I have a buddy that has one of their ODS clones and he loves it.
 
How does it sound? I have a buddy that has one of their ODS clones and he loves it.
I absolutely love it, it sounds incredible. I've used their Matchless Lightning clone since 2015 and it's been great, just wanted to upgrade. The 12AX7 channel of the DZ30 sounds a lot like the Lightning, but the EF86 channel is really something special.
 
I absolutely love it, it sounds incredible. I've used their Matchless Lightning clone since 2015 and it's been great, just wanted to upgrade. The 12AX7 channel of the DZ30 sounds a lot like the Lightning, but the EF86 channel is really something special.

You sir have excellent taste. I've played a lightning that a friend owned quite a lot and it is a magnificent amp. I've never played a dc30 but always wanted to. I'd love to even stand in front of one which has been wound up a bit.
 
You sir have excellent taste. I've played a lightning that a friend owned quite a lot and it is a magnificent amp. I've never played a dc30 but always wanted to. I'd love to even stand in front of one which has been wound up a bit.
I love everything Matchless does (except for the Hotbox, was never able to get that to work for my taste). When my wife was out the other day I took the opportunity to crank the master volume to 2 o'clock and move some serious air. It's a glorious feeling.
 
got a fat envelope from SBP, resistors caps and tranies.. and a couple pieces of perf board, been meaning to make a Vg test board plus I need to make a voltage divider for my mini amp project...
 
@Gordo was selling off some templates on MBP forum so of course I had to snag a few. Strat, tele, sg, Barretta. I’ve never planned on building a Kramer Barretta copy, but I couldn’t resist. I’m certainly not a shreddy type of guitarist, so you can expect me to build an absolutely goofy looking shred monster with a with all of the 80s shredder tropes to play some breezy folk rock tunes on.
 
@Gordo was selling off some templates on MBP forum so of course I had to snag a few. Strat, tele, sg, Barretta. I’ve never planned on building a Kramer Barretta copy, but I couldn’t resist. I’m certainly not a shreddy type of guitarist, so you can expect me to build an absolutely goofy looking shred monster with a with all of the 80s shredder tropes to play some breezy folk rock tunes on.
Oh good I'm glad you scooped those
 
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