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  1. Thanks will do.

     

    Here's another project of the weekend. This is a little class D power amp that can put out like 60W. I mainly put this little guy together to test different preamps for a little micro amp idea that I have. It is unbelievably loud for its size and actually sounds great with a tasty preamp. Not going to throw out my tube amps but this will be a really cool portable amp

     

     

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    Next on the chopping block: Gonna put together a transistor set for the Pup

     

    Everyone should have something like this in the gig bag for the time when that tube amp fails. I've never had to use the spare yet, but I'm sure it will happen eventually. I carry a little micro Hotone head just in case. But these little Class D amps can really hang! Cool build. No volume adjustment?

  2. Cool stuff guys. Rabs that Dimarzio pot looks like it was made by CTS

     

    Just wired up this Strat pickguard

     

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    Very pretty with all those right angle bends! [biggrin]

     

    Interested to hear what you think of those Toneriders.

  3. Making some Baby Fat boosters today. I haven't been making these lately, but our boy Doug (Karloff) makes his sound so good that people from Maryland keep ordering them. [thumbup] At this point any orders I get from Eastern Maryland are people who've seen Doug play, so I Decided I'd better make a few to be ready for the aftermath of Doug's next gig. [biggrin]

     

    Also thinking I might start getting these boxes done professionally too - like the Juice Box and Big Toe enclosures. Painting is just a pain in the a$$ to me.

     

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    Made a couple boards for the LPB style booster that I haven't made in a while either. This is such a simple but killer sounding circuit.

     

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    And I must recommend one of these resistor bending tools (see pic above) to my fellow DIYers. This is a vintage one my brother in law found, so I'm not sure if they are still made, but it sure makes bening resistors to a certain span a lot easier! Works for capacitors too. [thumbup]

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  4. Rory also had a unique niche. He wasn't playing blues - but he was. He wasn't playing rock - but he was. His songs were like no one else really. He was unique, and that's not necessarily a good thing as far as the music "business" is concerned.

     

    On a related note, imagine if Rory's first album broke in the US the year after SRV and Texas Flood. I think once the white boy blues thing was reignited by SRV, Rory could've gained a lot of popularity here. Just a thought. Not that it matters now.

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  5. Really enjoyed both of those clips. And thanks for the back-story, Pip. I can't imagine Rory in a setting other than the trio.... Rory + Gerry + any drummer = awesome. What a master of the Strat. He could really coax tones out of it. [thumbup]

     

    Interestingly it looks like Super Reverb amps in the backline not the AC30 with which he is so associated. Still sounds like Rory though.

  6. Yeah I will do that before I take anything apart and see whats working and what may need a clean... I may video it and do some measurements... Its the kind of thing people seem interested in, those small details.

     

    You're a master of restraint, a monk or something, I would've had that sucker plugged in the second I walked in the door!

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    I will give it a good look over when I service it... And the guy is on holiday now till the 2nd Aug so when I give it back to him I will see what he knows about its history [thumbup]

     

    So screw the paint... how's the sumb!tch sound, Rabs?

  8. The guy hasn't played it for years and one of the pots are a bit scratchy.. So im going to try and clean it up as good as I can with some electrical lubricant and cleaner and then give the fretboard a clean and then re-string and do a set up.. UNLESS I find something else wrong with it...

     

    Looks like a fun guitar to work on. Looking forward to seeing those gut shots. Can you do us a favor and measure the output of the pickups whilst you have it on the bench?

  9. I think I sent you the 1/2W resistors and caps and shielded wire, which fit correctly on the larger .15" pitch board or turret etc but kinda clunky on .1" pitch. I don't remember what I sent though.

     

    Anyway lemme know if you wanna give that a shot and I can ship it this weekend.

     

    Hmmmm.... I looked and the stuff I ordered is 2.54mm (or 1 inch) pitch. Didn't even know that was a thing, since I've always used turret (or printed circuits). Always so much to learn!

  10. Not gonna lie dude I do not even remember sending those to you haha. I remember sending some MKII parts or somethin

     

    Let me know if you need more stuff like that though

     

     

    Well I ordered some perf so that I can finally take a shot at building a Tonebender from those parts you sent. I know I could do it on turret like I normally do, but I wanted to try something different. I'll keep you posted here - most likely cuz I'll need help. :rolleyes:

  11. Not gonna lie dude I do not even remember sending those to you haha. I remember sending some MKII parts or somethin

     

    Doh! #-o I prolly ordered them from somewhere and forgot about it then. [biggrin]

     

    Regardless it sounds amazing. I'm diggin' it.

     

    I do need to get around to making a Tonebender out of the parts you sent though.

  12. This is four-knob (late 60s) Fuzz Face clone I built a few years ago. I thought it sounded amazing with the silicon transistors I had in there, but today I finally got around to popping in the AC128s that our resident fuzzgod Dub-T-123 sent me a while back. D@mn! Just D@MN! It sounds like GOD through the JTM45. I'm in heaven right now!

     

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