What's on your work bench?

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Re: What's on your work bench?

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New wiring for this guy courtesy of a kit from Tone shapers. CTS pots, switchcraft jack and switch (not used), orange drops (if you care), and treble bleeds. It even comes with a choice of braided wire or shielded 4 wire.

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Good stuff and $80 for the kit (shipped off Amazon au) is a good rate for name brand parts

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Sounds a good deal :)
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Just got this one finished, Honduran Mahogany body with a lightly figured Blackbean top, 6 piece Wenge neck with Indian Rosewood fretboard, jumbo stainless steel frets Gotoh truss rod, bridge and tuners, Seymour Duncan - Slash pickup set, black pearloid binding on body and neck including headstock, strung with a set of D'Addario 10's, sounds and plays as good as it looks \m/ > < \m/
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Printed out a custom humbucker template for my strat, just waiting on a top bearing flush trim router bit to arrive :)
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jeremyb wrote: Wed Jun 22, 2022 5:25 pm Printed out a custom humbucker template for my strat, just waiting on a top bearing flush trim router bit to arrive :)
Got a pic?
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MikeC wrote: Wed Jun 22, 2022 5:29 pm
jeremyb wrote: Wed Jun 22, 2022 5:25 pm Printed out a custom humbucker template for my strat, just waiting on a top bearing flush trim router bit to arrive :)
Got a pic?
This is the first prototype, making some changes more to suit the router bit I’m going till be using, rounded corners etc…
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Awesome. What's it cost to 3D print an object like this?
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MikeC wrote: Wed Jun 22, 2022 6:38 pm Awesome. What's it cost to 3D print an object like this?
Maybe a dollar worth of plastic? Plus my labour for the 4 minutes it took to knock up the 3d model :lol:
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Making some brackets for some shelves to lift up my monitor speakers and give me storage underneath.
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jeremyb wrote: Sat Aug 20, 2022 5:10 pm Making some brackets for some shelves to lift up my monitor speakers and give me storage underneath.
Actually did the same this arvo. Should be up tonight. Don't think I bother to paint it...
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Just a cheap Mosky DOD clone. I notoriously hate OD pedals, so I didn't want to spend much to try out a DOD. Turns out it sounds brilliant, but it needed a new coat of paint to look good enough for the pedalboard.

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Making a Novo style body for someone's project - He supplied the CAD file and I had a template made up on the CNC, NZ grown Alder

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Starfire wrote: Sat Aug 20, 2022 8:10 pm Just a cheap Mosky DOD clone. I notoriously hate OD pedals, so I didn't want to spend much to try out a DOD. Turns out it sounds brilliant, but it needed a new coat of paint to look good enough for the pedalboard.

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The Mosky stuff is seriously great, I had their spring reverb pedal and have their EP Booster, bloody great!
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I'm learning how to solder for the second time. The first time I just gave up.

I've hooked up (I think) my neck tone knob to my bridge pickup. I'm glad in learning this on my $359 Artist Strat clone.

I will work on shielding the guitar cavities tomorrow with aluminium tape. Hopefully that cuts down a lot of the EMI.
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hooking the neck tone to the bridge pickup and shielding was a success! wow, what a difference shielding makes to reducing noise. It's like a new guitar now! it has definitely lessened my GAS for a new ST-style guitar.

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