badbluesplayer

I was an English Lit minor, so I never read literature type books. I read a book about designing amp power supplies a few months ago. It was o.k. No drama or weird people. No nincompoops telling me how to think.

Antique Electronics/Amplified Parts has individual ones for $0.95. I have some and they're as iconic as anything - https://www.tubesandmore.com/products/knob-position-indicator-gibson-style-speed-and-bell-knobs

I watched it when it came out on Disney and I thought it was awesome. It was only $8 for a month. I didn't care so much about the personal stuff - it was kept to a minimum. Watching them play music work in the studio was pretty amazing. I thought they did a great job editing the studio work. And it seems like it was about the right length to me. I waited a few days between episodes.

Pumpkin is one year old today!!

Awesome! Cool show.

That was me with the DT crack, Hoss! 😁

I like to measure those guys by how rich they had to be before they stopped being a dooosh. Like Bill Gates had to be worth like how many billion before he stopped yelling at his employees or having an affair. The Amazon guy is worth half the world and he's got a rocket in his backyard and is still baiting-and-switching and taking four days to pick your order before they ship it by hitchhiker.

Why? What happened?

I think it' some kind of cis/trans bromance thing. Is that Gene a guy in real life?

Vader - about 12 years ago - A few years ago - The other day -

I'm a surveyor too. I started holding the rod at 9. I'd been fired for the first time by the age of 10.

For the input - if you have a low-z mic you could try using it and play the radio or TV thru it. Or wire a radio/stereo speaker output to an input jack?

Well, dang, you were doing drainage engineering the whole time and I didn't even know! I did lots of drainage and erosion control engineering for almost forty years, mostly for developers. We'd have to engineer the drainage systems and prepare plans and stuff to get the approvals. Very cool.

Sounds like most likely a bad tube or socket or a bad connection somewhere. Wiggle the power tubes to see if it's a power tube or socket. Replace the power tubes if you have some and see if anything changes. If you don't have any other power tubes, you could pull one power tube and see if it's the same. Then pull the other power tube, replace the first, and see if it's the same. That might tell you whether one of the power tubes is bad. Then try removing the preamp tubes one at a time, starting back at the last one before the power tubes and proceeding to the input tube, and see if the same thing happens. If it stops happening with one of the tubes pulled then the prob is before the tube that was just removed. Then remove the next tube toward the input and see if it's still happening. That'll tell you where the problem is. You can "stick" the thing. Power the amp on and get a plain stick, like a pencil, but with no lead - lead is conductive. And take the stick and poke and prod the wires and components with the amp on to see if you can make it cut out to find a bad connection or component.

Congrats on your retirement. You worked for USDA, right? I used to use the county soil surveys and TR-20 and TR-55 for runoff calculations. My sister was a soil scientist and she interned with SCS to get her certification. She mapped wetlands in CT for a long time. Have a good one.

Consciousness of guilt? 😄 🧨🎉🧨🎉

We had a couple of kids in my class named Naomi and Jose Ibanez. No, it was Ortiz. Naomi and Jose Ortiz. Threw 'em right into second grade with no comprende English... Anyway...

They set them up with what they think people want. Lots of people like 10's but 9's will be fine too. It's more about feel than anything. What feels right works right.

Nice!!! 😍

Nah. He's just a monster. It looks like Norm of Norm's guitars behind Joe.

Josh Smith, the blues tele guy, uses .013, .017, .026P, .036, .044, .056.

Dang. Nice work!!

Probably a crack in the finish, but can't tell for sure. If it's a finish crack, it would have been caused by whacking the top of the nut against something. That's probably what happened at some time. The crack is at 45 degrees to the direction of the impact. That's what happens when brittle things crack.

Removed the covering and the Gibson emblem and glued and filled some things. Some of the plywood on the bottom has delaminated and had some internal plies rattling around. I superglued the plywood back together and I think I stopped the rattle. A little more gluing and filling and it will be ready for new tolex. I got some authentic brown Gibson style tolex from Mojotone and I'm going to use a Fender flat leather handle, which is the exact same size and fits the same holes as the old one. I'll probably put new rubber feet on there. The emblem is in good shape. Waiting to hear from Weber to see if they can recone the speaker.

Yeah. The speaker has an electromagnet instead of a regular magnet and that coil doubles as the choke. Kind of wierd.