I just finished putting this one together. It's an Epi copy of a Jackson. I bought it from a kid that couldn't tune it because of the floating bridge. It was just a basic black Super Strat style guitar. I repainted it Metallic Black with Dark Grey Metallic flames. I also added the chrome pickup rings to give it a little more flash.
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An oscilloscope, a DMM, a couple of soldering irons, a vice, parts bin, lots of dead ladybugs.
Ill shoot bench pics tomorrow.
60's teardrop-style guitar that I can't fit my hands into to replace the pots. DAM Meathead clone that started to smoke every time it had power hooked up to it.. 60's Gibson SS amp that I managed to shock myself on. It wasn't my best DIY weekend, truthfully.
Quote from: xayk on October 11, 2011, 10:07:19 PM
60's teardrop-style guitar that I can't fit my hands into to replace the pots. DAM Meathead clone that started to smoke every time it had power hooked up to it.. 60's Gibson SS amp that I managed to shock myself on. It wasn't my best DIY weekend, truthfully.
Uh, damn. Maybe you better back away from the bench for a couple days. :-X
Quote from: Ranbat on October 11, 2011, 10:24:14 PM
Uh, damn. Maybe you better back away from the bench for a couple days. :-X
Ha, yeah. It happens. I'll stare at schematics for a week and then try again.
Incidentally, seeing that Kramer sticker behind your Epi makes me want to screen print some Kramer shirts like I had as a wee youth. One more DIY thing I can screw up!
bench has a PC gutted on it. hm-2 is opened up next to it. std weller station/small tools/power supplies of varying voltages.
dmm is in the other room. i use that thing all over randomly as are the dikes and strippers (heh they would have fun with that line in gen disgustion)
Quote from: Hemisaurus on October 11, 2011, 09:36:33 PM
An oscilloscope, a DMM, a couple of soldering irons, a vice, parts bin, lots of dead ladybugs.
it SHOULD have my two big muffs on there, but they are still in storage, probably being infested with lady bugs as we speak.
does anyone else have those damn things in their house? they are like lady bugs, but brown, and they bite like a mother. of course, living in a 100 year old house surrounded by corn/bean fields doesn't help.
Weed, a vaporizer and other paraphernalia.
1960's Fender 800....before
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during ....
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and after
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Lots of different resistors, capacitators, pots and transistors. All put together will become a Chorus pedal.
Quote from: justinhedrick on October 12, 2011, 10:35:31 AM
Quote from: Hemisaurus on October 11, 2011, 09:36:33 PM
An oscilloscope, a DMM, a couple of soldering irons, a vice, parts bin, lots of dead ladybugs.
it SHOULD have my two big muffs on there, but they are still in storage, probably being infested with lady bugs as we speak.
does anyone else have those damn things in their house? they are like lady bugs, but brown, and they bite like a mother. of course, living in a 100 year old house surrounded by corn/bean fields doesn't help.
You're getting them this year? We had 'em last year, or the year before, and then seven years before that, it seems cyclical. Every year we get a few but those years it can be bad. Our last house I used to have to vacuum the walls before we went to sleep, filled a vacuum bag every day. When we bought this place, first thing we asked about was the windows. Make all the difference, I only see a few in the basement and a bunch in the garage nowadays.
PS I was being facetious, and not mentioning the amp and couple of pedals on there ;) I'm busy-ish don't worry.
no problem hemi. you still coming to CU this weekend? what days?
3 phase 90 boards almost populated.
3 Foxx Tone Machine boards almost populated.
2 Psychtar boards populated and ready for off board wiring and boxing.
Broken EHX microsynth
Rat board bout half done
Green ringer that needs to be housed in with in my dark meathead clone, just gonna put it on a dpdt flip switch. This sounded great when I had it wired up after the Meathead on the bench.
Then guitars beside the bench:
Teisco SG Bass wiring and a few other issues to be sorted soon.
Starfire P bass copy just needs new pots wired in which I'm gonna do tonight.
Maison Les Paul Custom copy getting a new neck pickup, switch and then rewired with sprague orange drops on the tone controls (this one is mine and it's gonna be set up C# with 12s)
Fender Jazz bass waiting on it's owner to supply me with a new bridge pickup (or at least the money for one).
Old bass strings (new set, w00t!)
Soldering gun from 1962, got from dad, still works great
Little leather satchel w/ small screwdrivers, files, pieces o' sandpaper/emery cloth, allen wrenches
Parts for a four-switch channel/effects footswitch I'm building for an Acoustic 470
Plastic dust from when I made a new nut for my bass out of a chunk o' plastic
Quote from: justinhedrick on October 12, 2011, 01:05:48 PM
no problem hemi. you still coming to CU this weekend? what days?
Nah, the missus saw sense, we're meeting our friends in Decatur, and avoiding any game traffic.
The ladybug bites won't kill you, but the smell is something terrible :P
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70 Plush 1000s for about 6 months cuz i have a new gf and a super secret project that's been in the works for a while. Oh and one of those cheapy little Shredder mini guitars.
I have no work bench. Only a dining room table. So whatever goes there doesn't stay there for long... but I just got 3 new mini-humbuckers from GFS for the knockoff Firebird I bought a few months ago, and plan on doing the surgery over the next week or so. Thinking I'm going to go with a modified Les Paul Custom type schematic, where I have a separate volume control for each pickup, and a master tone. Stock, it has two volume two tone, and the middle pickup always works in tandem with the bridge. This is what I'm looking at:
http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/tonefreaks/81538-3-pick-up-les-paul-wiring.html
Any thoughts on the wisdom of this?
Edit: These are the PUPS, from bridge to neck:
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Little-Crunchy-Mini-Humbuckers-Chrome-Case-Bridge-Position_p_458.html
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Nashville-Minitron-Humbucker--Chrome-Neck-position-_p_1950.html
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Fat-Mini-Fat-Alnico-V-Magnets-Chrome-Case-Our-Best-Neck-Position_p_492.html
What's the switch doing? That weird diagram shows all 3 pickups wired to a switch, and no lead taken out? Or is it the middle one is always on, and the switch makes it either bridge / middle or neck / middle? So I guess in the middle it's all 3 pickups? Interesting.
If that's the way you want it, that's the way to wire it :)
PS I tend to do short term work on the kitchen table, and the stuff on my workbench seems to take forever :-[
If you want to mess with your head, check here http://www.1728.org/guitar3.htm (http://www.1728.org/guitar3.htm)
Hey Hemi,
My understanding is that is the way it works pretty much. With the middle pup volume turned down, it works just like a regular two pickup guitar. Then you can dial in as much of the middle pickup as you want in the center position. If you want just the middle and one of the other PUPS (say bridge), you turn down the neck volume. If you want just the middle pickup on it's own, you have to turn down the neck and bridge volume controls. That's how I understand it anyway... let me know if you think the diagram says different. It's not perfect, but I think it is better than having the middle pickup always have to work in tandem with the bridge.
Nope, that's how it looks, I just didn't have my brain in gear when I first started typing :-\
(http://i.imgur.com/IyhoB.jpg)
Little Angel Chorus pedal
I believe this is based on a Small Stone. I chose very big 1W resistors and 63V capacitators so everything looks very cluttered.
(http://i.imgur.com/riAhB.jpg)
Meathead w/ mod for Dark-mode
This is the second one I'm making, the mod isn't wired up yet.
I have a bench, but my garage has no electricity. Been here for 3 1/2 years and still ain't gotten around to it. The odd job I do is done on the dining table and all my shit's scattered between drawers in the garage and cupboards in my bedroom and in my work van.
Quote from: Ayek on October 23, 2011, 06:14:44 AM
I have a bench, but my garage has no electricity. Been here for 3 1/2 years and still ain't gotten around to it. The odd job I do is done on the dining table and all my shit's scattered between drawers in the garage and cupboards in my bedroom and in my work van.
Whatever happened to the cool amp with the sliders?
She's being put to good work as my main amp. When I had it open I just cleaned the 30 odd years worth of dust that was in there and replaced a couple of the power valve sockets. It needs a re-cap preferably sooner than later, but I had issues trying to source the multi-value filter caps. I need to ring one of the local gurus to see if he can help source them. He's a good dude. I lost the bit of paper that I wrote on, so I'll have to open the beast up again. Might replace the other two valve sockets then, too. They're no where near as solid feeling as the new ones I put in.
Quote from: Ayek on October 24, 2011, 05:18:37 AM
She's being put to good work as my main amp. When I had it open I just cleaned the 30 odd years worth of dust that was in there and replaced a couple of the power valve sockets. It needs a re-cap preferably sooner than later, but I had issues trying to source the multi-value filter caps. I need to ring one of the local gurus to see if he can help source them. He's a good dude. I lost the bit of paper that I wrote on, so I'll have to open the beast up again. Might replace the other two valve sockets then, too. They're no where near as solid feeling as the new ones I put in.
Weber do cap cans, as do JJ, but I recall there was some space in that chassis. I've replaced cap-cans, with regular caps. You just get a couple of small bits of tagboard, and the cap values you need and, if there's space just snip the leads from the cap can, and solder the new caps over where the capcan is, I sometimes leave the capcan in place, with it's leads snipped off, rather than have the hole in the chassis.
All you need to remember is the capcan has a common ground, so solder all the negatives of the replacement electrolytics together.
(http://www.instructables.com/image/F5EPPZVF9T401PZ/Replacing-the-filter-can-capacitors.jpg)(http://www.instructables.com/files/deriv/FMR/QO8H/FA0CV8KH/FMRQO8HFA0CV8KH.MEDIUM.jpg)
Borrowed these images from an instructable, this is not my soldering ::) I generally use axial caps and two small tagboards.
Hope this helps ;)
^I tell you what, I think I'll follow that path. Part of me wants to keep in nice, but that went out the door after somehow I bent the faceplate slightly and broke off one of the cord wrap dealies on the back (I'm blaming earthquakes). I had spent fucking ages a while back googling all over the show trying to find cap-cans of the right values, so yeah. There is plenty of room to do such a thing. You're not just a pretty face after all. Cheers.
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Man yo shit lookin wicked baller tight.
Ihsahn from Emperor did a little instuctional vid series called left hand path, probably no relation right?
Quote from: mutantcolors on March 06, 2012, 12:18:13 AM
Man yo shit lookin wicked baller tight.
Ihsahn from Emperor did a little instuctional vid series called left hand path, probably no relation right?
no relation, its actually a hm-2 clone thing
Give me that pedal. GIVE ME IT. Seriously, HM-2 with a mid knob? Sign me up. Any way to boost the output?
Quote from: SunnO))) on March 06, 2012, 12:49:02 AM
Give me that pedal. GIVE ME IT. Seriously, HM-2 with a mid knob? Sign me up. Any way to boost the output?
just increase op amp gain on last stage, im offering them as kits you can buy from me, soon with pics of a build and potential mods and add ons
Do want. My gripe with the HM-2 is lacking overall volume, even all dimed out. If I leave the mid knob noon'd, or whatever's flat, would I still get the same dimed out HM-2 sound? BUZZSAW SWEDISH DM TONE. Holler when you get a sound clip. I'd rather buy one of your kits than a BYOC dealio.
Quote from: SunnO))) on March 06, 2012, 12:56:47 AM
Do want. My gripe with the HM-2 is lacking overall volume, even all dimed out. If I leave the mid knob noon'd, or whatever's flat, would I still get the same dimed out HM-2 sound? BUZZSAW SWEDISH DM TONE. Holler when you get a sound clip. I'd rather buy one of your kits than a BYOC dealio.
in the originals the mid/treble EQ are tied together and sent to treble knob so if you build a stock unit + mid control then just move both treble and mids together for original sound.
You simply increase the 3.3k resistor in the feedback loop of the last op amp to get more output.
However if you were more adventurous i would kick the mids down to 700-750 hz with a lil change in the caps. This is a better mid point, The treble range is not super high in the pedal, its setup for 2 khz.
i will have 32 kits @ 70 or so bucks i think, screened and pre drilled by muah
Quote from: dunwichamps on March 06, 2012, 01:00:01 AM
i will have 32 kits @ 70 or so bucks i think, screened and pre drilled by muah
Great price for a kit with a box that's already painted and ready to go.
Quote from: Lumpy on March 06, 2012, 02:24:56 AM
Quote from: dunwichamps on March 06, 2012, 01:00:01 AM
i will have 32 kits @ 70 or so bucks i think, screened and pre drilled by muah
Great price for a kit with a box that's already painted and ready to go.
yea i thought so, only thing im not including is wire and stand offs. Everything else is there
Fuck it, I might have to grab one of those of ya. I keep meaning to build a stripped down version with no eq section, just for kicks.
Put me down for a kit right now. I'm definetly in.
Quote from: bass sic on March 06, 2012, 10:50:42 AM
Put me down for a kit right now. I'm definetly in.
ill let people know when its ready, how much the final cost will be and what not.
I have to get the screening setup first so until I get to that point I wont have much specifics.
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Last night was amp night! They were in the office on the couch.
Quote from: SunnO))) on March 06, 2012, 04:09:30 PM
Last night was amp night! They were in the office on the couch.
everynight is amp night, dont think otherwise
Today was drum day! Tonight is gun night!
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