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Rabs those are really coming together man. Did you notice that the carve became kinda asymmetrical around the electronics? The right side is more like a straight line, the left is much more curved. Not to critique of course, just thought if you didn't notice it would be best to change it now before a finish is applied I ordered some hand tools from stewmac for nut, saddle, and fret work so I'm pretty excited to get started with that. Got a really beautiful Warmoth Strat coming in the mail that I got finished by a forum member so that should be pretty badass when it's all together

Congrats Rabs!!! That is great to hear, I'm so happy for you!! Did that go to the vintage Strat guy?

Thanks dude I am literally a professional custom cabinet maker but this is my second amp cab. I would much rather be making amps than kitchens and bathrooms and stuff but it's nice to have all of the tools

Thanks mang. I used the porter cable router in the background with a cheap harbor freight 3/8" round over bit (no router table). With the pine I really don't seem to get any tear out with that bit. With maple or something harder it can be really hard to avoid tearout. Since the face of the cabinet is angled, I didn't attempt to use the router on that part at all. Instead I used a long sanding block with 120 and did it by hand. The radii of the front top and bottom are slightly smaller than the rest of the edges cause that kinda looked right for some reason. Other than the 120 to shape the face, I sanded all of the radiused edges by hand with 220. I didn't want to distort the edges at all which will be covered in a gloss finish. I also did a lot of the cuts involving the facia strips by hand with a Japanese flush cut saw. There were a couple key points that gave me trouble on my Revibe cab which I replaced with careful manual work for this cabinet. Once you blow out a corner or something it's really hard to recover

That is looking amazing dude!!! The reflectors are the perfect choice Now I'm delaying my 5e3 cab build further because I couldn't resist mounting the chassis and speaker to hear how it sounds in the cab. The cab really added a noticeable amount of low end and the amp just sounds bigger and beautifully balanced now. It sounds so sweet with any of my guitars, it's gonna be hard to wait weeks for the finishing to be done so I can put it back together. So happy with the sound from this thing

I know a good joint when I smoke one! Sorry couldn't resist. Thanks. Now that I have some templates made I should be able to make narrow panel tweed style cabs pretty easily. Really enjoying it

The long awaited 5e3 cab is underway.

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No volume adjustment because it's intended to be used with a preamp. This is kindof a modular power amp prototyping dealio

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

Cool stuff guys. Rabs that Dimarzio pot looks like it was made by CTS Just wired up this Strat pickguard

Cool cool COOL man!! Looks like 3 different pots haha. Original 3 way switch?

You know I was checking out the amps I'm revisiting a couple other KEXP YouTube videos. Love this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-CofEQ4iao

Damn when he jumps on the drums that is some skill

What's that?

I hope you enjoy playing with it while you got it! One of my buddies let me borrow an L series Mustang for a while and I have never played such a good sounding Fender but the neck was so tiny it was really hard to play. Couldn't have been more than 1 9/16" nut width. If I could get that sound with a normal neck I would be in heaven, so these L series Strats and Teles really pique my interest Basically if I lived near you I would be running over to your house right now

Looking at those pics I honestly don't think that was brushed on but I'm not looking at it in person. I think the tell tale would be if the edges have "brush strokes" in a different direction or some obvious indication that it was brushed on. What I can see looks like it could be an original finish on a well loved guitar As I'm sure you know, the difference in value between a refinished vintage Strat and an original custom color is HUGE. Black is a really desirable custom color. If that is factory original, you're working on a pretty valuable guitar And like you said of course it could just be an old refinish. Would be great to hear if the original owner had it painted or what. If his brother was the original owner, and thought it was refinished just because he found the sunburst underneath, it could actually be original. Then again, you know a lot of guys had to have seen Jimi or Clapton with a black Strat and got theirs refinished

Did the guy say it was a refinish or is it just an obvious hack job? The reason I ask is that the finishes from that period do not hold up to time/the elements well and many people would look at an original finish and think it looks awful What happens is the finish sinks into the grain over time so it loses that mirror smooth appearance. Then of course it also checks, cracks, flakes, etc. All that stuff is normal for an original finish, but if it has runs and stuff like that and it was just obviously never a professional job then that's a shame

Let me know if you want that board. Or I can show you where I buy it. Actually I would like to get the old RS phenolic kind without the printed grid but it's not easy to find in the US

That's an L series Strat, that's really cool!! Sunburst was the only standard finish option for the Strat at that time period. If you wanted a different color, you would have to custom order it, and they often painted the custom color right on top of a sunburst finish. If that was an original black finish, this thing would be some real cash Any way, it's probably a great guitar. I'm jealous that you have it in your posession

I've got a piece of .15" pitch stripboard already cut to size with your name on it if you want to try that. I cut it to the original MKII board specs like the ones I make. 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.

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 I love a good FF though.. the breadboard pic in the OP is a circuit I designed for my friend which is a BC108 FF with a tone control and a buffered dry volume control. So you can blend in your clean signal with the dry volume, and set the fuzz volume independently. It's for a bass player. It took a bit of experimenting to get the FF to sound right with the buffered splitter and everything but I was able to get it working great. Another result of the added buffers is that the pedal can be placed anywhere in the signal chain without the normal issues associated with the FF, so it's really pretty cool

The original DIY thread has been rendered useless due to the Photobucket fiasco, so it's time for round two. The main focus of the thread is on guitar related projects, but post whatever you want Testing??

You're in California? I'm in Orange County