What's on your workbench right now?

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by nanamour » Sun Mar 22, 2020 6:45 pm

Well, one small upside of being cooped up at home the past week has been the chance to round off a few projects that have been sitting around gathering dust for ages.

This evening I tackled the mess of a wah pedal I picked up at a garage sale years ago, a ca. 1970 Thomas Organ Crybaby that has seen its share of torment at the hands of a previous owner. Someone drilled a hole for a 9v adapter, but later reverted back to the original battery clip...by twisting the wires together sans any soldering and wrapping the whole mess in electrical tape and what looked like dental floss :fp: Because of this, the pedal has always been really unreliable, cutting out every so often; on top of that, the whole thing sounded really muddled/muddy, and the pot was annoyingly scratchy, despite my best efforts to clean it.

After sitting in a drawer the past 5 years, it got a good scrubbing, new pot installed, a fancy Whipple inductor to replace the original Japanese TDK piece, a 9v DC jack replacing the sketchy battery snap rat's nest, and finally some wiring decluttering.

A few hours of playing later and everything's working a treat and it sounds like a wet blanket has been taken off the thing--whether to chalk it up to the new pot, more reliable power source, inductor swap, or simply good old expectation bias I'm not sure, but certainly having a blast with it.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by niksureal » Mon Mar 23, 2020 1:19 pm

neck arrived for the phantom project. burns bison 64 reissue neck.
headstock plate, tuners, string guide installed. frets polished.
going to finish routing the body tomorrow.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by cooterfinger » Mon Mar 23, 2020 1:43 pm

That looks great.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by garyptaszek » Wed Mar 25, 2020 2:16 pm

niksureal wrote:
Mon Mar 23, 2020 1:19 pm
neck arrived for the phantom project. burns bison 64 reissue neck.
headstock plate, tuners, string guide installed. frets polished.
going to finish routing the body tomorrow.
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I like where this is going!

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by niksureal » Thu Mar 26, 2020 9:34 pm

thanks guys. hopefully will have another update soon.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by mackerelmint » Fri Mar 27, 2020 3:47 am

WOW! What a cool neck!
This is an excellent rectangle

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Post by s_mcsleazy » Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:11 am

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:35 pm

That is fantastic Sean!!! I love everything about it :w00t: :w00t:
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by s_mcsleazy » Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:01 pm

Shadoweclipse13 wrote:
Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:35 pm
That is fantastic Sean!!! I love everything about it :w00t: :w00t:
it's going to have a 70's dimarzio in the neck (i just wired it in) i'm also planning on blacking out the headstock. outside that. it's just small things that are going to slow me down. mainly i dont have thimbles that are the correct size. i see this one basically being finished by next week.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by niksureal » Fri Mar 27, 2020 4:46 pm

hopefully painting tomorrow.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by Scout » Sat Mar 28, 2020 4:36 am

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Did you paint this? Dark fingerboard?

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by Scout » Sat Mar 28, 2020 4:46 am

Niksureal, I like the poplar grain, gonna do translucent paint?
I have this piece of spalted elm I rescued from the firewood pile and I can’t decide on a shape.this side looks maybe curvy and a scroll horn
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This side maybe flying egg
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I do like working with found items.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by s_mcsleazy » Sat Mar 28, 2020 7:04 am

Scout wrote:
Sat Mar 28, 2020 4:36 am
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Did you paint this? Dark fingerboard?
stain. and i got a rosewood fingerboard lined up. need to black out the headstock. the idea is it's going to be in the colours of the asexual pride flag.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by Scout » Sat Mar 28, 2020 9:06 am

Got it.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by niksureal » Sat Mar 28, 2020 11:59 am

Scout wrote:
Sat Mar 28, 2020 4:46 am
Niksureal, I like the poplar grain, gonna do translucent paint?
I have this piece of spalted elm I rescued from the firewood pile and I can’t decide on a shape.this side looks maybe curvy and a scroll horn
This side maybe flying egg
I do like working with found items.
thinking white. classic phantom colour.
looks good. ll be watching.

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