What's on your workbench today?

[Jim_in_PA]

Amp shootout this morning

I for some reason envision George Jetson walking into the room with all those retro-modern designs!

 

[Powdog]

I for some reason envision George Jetson walking into the room with all those retro-modern designs!

There were one or two vintage amps in there, like this 1957 Gibson GA-20.

 

[Powdog]

1998 BJ on the bench. Made in Corona, revision C green PCB, Ruby tubes, no reverb. Sounds awful, worse than when it’s working correctly. Filter caps almost 30 years old, likely culprit. Belongs to a buddy but I really don’t want to work on this.

 

[Powdog]

Another rat-rod coming down the pike. The donor amp is a 1969 Thomas organ model W power amp. With 6973 power tubes it’s bound to become some version of a Supro 6424.

 

[Hallo Spencer]

Wow, the front panel looks great!

 

[Zepfan]

I was going to cover the body of my Vox Phantom/ Teisco 5 inspired build with black - white poka dot material, but the teardrop shape made that too difficult.

So I painted it white and added "dot" stickers(yardsale price stickers). Then sprayed black over it all. After it dries I can remove the stickers and spray clear.

 

[Scorpio1968]

I was going to cover the body of my Vox Phantom/ Teisco 5 inspired build with black - white poka dot material, but the teardrop shape made that too difficult.

So I painted it white and added "dot" stickers(yardsale price stickers). Then sprayed black over it all. After it dries I can remove the stickers and spray clear.

Great idea!

 

[Zepfan]

Thanks. Took awhile, but it works. You can always change the pattern if you want like a spiral pattern would be cool.

 

[SacDAve]

Built some planter boxes for the front of the house. Did some CNC designs on them (SVG Files) part of the CNC learning curve.

 

[Zepfan]

The stickers worked well. Some lifted a bit while spraying and I have some touch up to do with a brush before clear gets sprayed.

 

[Blazer]

Took me a while to resume work on my twin teles. But today, I finally had some time to do some routing.

 

[Berger]

sprayed some clear

 

[Zepfan]

What happens when you have parts and extra time on hand.
I call it the T-Rail!

 

[peterg]

What happens when you have parts and extra time on hand.
I call it the T-Rail!

More pickup info please!

 

[Moldy Oldy]

Just off the workbench. I rescued a victim of a Gorilla Glue re-glue of a lifted bridge. I don’t believe the bridge was split at the time it was re-glued. I removed it and made a new one.

 

[Zepfan]

More pickup info please!

This is just taped together til I try it out. Then I'll decide to keep as is or improve and make it more secure.
The Tele bridge pup is a Squier ceramic mag offering. I'm thinking of removing the steel poles and magnet, cutting a slot and installing a Alnico 5 bar mag in the slot like a Firebird as a possible mod.
The Rail pup is the inside of a ceramic mag lipstick tube pickups. Can't do much to improve it. These are the same rail coil pickups that are found in single coil size Tele/Strat humbuckers like the Hot Rails/Cool Rails and used in the PRail pickup.
Both pickups are wired in series and have a 10k DCR.
The neck pickup is a ceramic mag Squier Strat neck pickup with a 5k DCR.

 

[Zepfan]

Mock up of upcoming build.

 

[Blazer]

Applied some lacquer on this thing...

 

[Zepfan]

Why is it hard to post these days?
Got some paint touch up, spray some clear and wire this thing up.

 

[Mikie47165]

Amoung the too many projects i have running at the same time is this 100 + year old peice of Hemlock with a bubinga top. At this point the plan is to bind the top with 1/4" white binding and paint the back and sides black. The Hemlock is salvaged for a factory that was demolished locally. I weight releived it because as a solid blank it weighed over 5 pounds. And then it was all clamps on deck to glue the top on