What's on your work bench?

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Re: What's on your work bench?

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jeremyb wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:54 am What is everyone's favourite super glue? Of the easily available ones I quite like the Loctite liquid ones, although have had some Zap CA glue from a model shop years ago that was a great performer.
The stuff from the $2 shop that comes in the plastic bottles (not the tubes). It works as well as anything else.

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Re: What's on your work bench?

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NippleWrestler wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 10:35 am
jeremyb wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:54 am What is everyone's favourite super glue? Of the easily available ones I quite like the Loctite liquid ones, although have had some Zap CA glue from a model shop years ago that was a great performer.
The stuff from the $2 shop that comes in the plastic bottles (not the tubes). It works as well as anything else.
Yep it glues my fingers to whatever I'm using it on just as well as the expensive brands.
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Re: What's on your work bench?

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The pickup train rolls on and on. I had a request for a strat set from a nice dude down in Blenheim, he wanted a hotter bridge and more vintage style middle and neck. Handily this is the exact same thing that I like and also the style I have in my strat but whereas mine has alnico 2, he wanted alnico 5 for a bit more sizzle.
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That's a 10.3k bridge, 5.7k middle, and 5.9k neck. All with a healthy dose of scatter, and I use lacquer to protect the naked start and end wires as the whole pickup depends on that micro wire being intact so why not protect it from snags and errant soldering irons. The middle has different coloured leads for easier ID and it's RWRP so it plays nice.

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Re: What's on your work bench?

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I wanted to use these covers for something, so wound a set of 12 pole humbuckers. There's an added bonus of not only the adjustability, but the 2x spacers means more inductance which means more output which means more chug. I wanted something different with the covers than just shiny shiny blingy bling. The 12 poles made me think of something industrial, military, tracked vehicles and bulkheads, so i called them the Warmonger set.

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Bridge is 14k, a5, scatter wound and asymettrical coils.

Neck is 10.1k, a5, scatter wound and asymettrical coils but is a hybrid pickup. A what? That means you use 2 different coils from different pickups and combine them. For example, SD make one which is one coil from a '59 and the other from a JB. I've done the same thing here, but with better coils come better pickups. The DCR doesn't tell the story, this will be quite a special thing.

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Mahogany Strat body, Routed HSH for pickup versatility, Just need to do the tummy contour then I will weigh it, not too heavy though

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NippleWrestler wrote: Tue Feb 25, 2025 9:38 am The pickup train rolls on and on.
If I had something to put them in I'd love to spec a Strat set. I'll have to buy another guitar. :-)

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Finally got around to building a second pedalboard for my wahs and volume and expression pedal, need to sand it and then polyurethane it and chuck on the velcro, used some 18mm ply I had lying about, only thing its cost me is a can of polyurethane as I have a metric ton of the furry side of velcro :mental:
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Re: What's on your work bench?

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Nice! 😎
Wait... How many wahs and expression pedals do you have?😆

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Cdog wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 5:44 pm Nice! 😎
Wait... How many wahs and expression pedals do you have?😆
Ahhhh one volume, one expression, two wahs, and a double footswitch :mental:
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jeremyb wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 6:19 pm
Cdog wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 5:44 pm Nice! 😎
Wait... How many wahs and expression pedals do you have?😆
Ahhhh one volume, one expression, two wahs, and a double footswitch :mental:
Only two wahs?
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kdawg2a wrote: Sun Mar 09, 2025 3:40 am
jeremyb wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 6:19 pm
Cdog wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 5:44 pm Nice! 😎
Wait... How many wahs and expression pedals do you have?😆
Ahhhh one volume, one expression, two wahs, and a double footswitch :mental:
Only two wahs?
I'm not greedy!
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Auxiliary board build completed, apart from a missing pedal thats in the mail... which may or may not stay on it... will be another on the work bench thing as I intend to mod it as well :lol:
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Re: What's on your work bench?

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Polyurethane finish? Looks sweet

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Cdog wrote: Fri Mar 14, 2025 6:14 pm Polyurethane finish? Looks sweet
Thanks! Yup, used almost a whole can of spray, but should make it pretty hardy :thumbup:
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Re: What's on your work bench?

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kdawg2a wrote: Sun Mar 09, 2025 3:40 am
jeremyb wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 6:19 pm
Cdog wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 5:44 pm Nice! 😎
Wait... How many wahs and expression pedals do you have?😆
Ahhhh one volume, one expression, two wahs, and a double footswitch :mental:
Only two wahs?
He uses them at the exact opposite of each other, at the same time, with both feet, to keep the tone the same
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