Recent content by bagman67

Jive talkin'

Very handsome work, right there. Congrats.

Wet

I find the Mixol blue pigment no. 9 over light wood can run a little warm, possibly inching toward the turquoise. This can be attractive, but is not really my cup of tea. I've gotten a really nice deep blue mixing the blue no. 9 with a light squirt of the no. 11 violet. My results have been...

If I could truthfully say that, I would not be typing these words on a work computer.

Yes indeed. Passed out of my possession for a couple years when I hit a bumpy financial patch; later, when I was flush, she came up on eBay and I scooped her back up.

Great Googly Moogly, Spud! You're going to drown under all that guitar gear! Furthermore, I totally missed the garage sale, so I'm glad to see someone whose happiness I am rooting for ran off with some goodies.

Indeed! Whatever they're paying you, Aaron, they are getting more than their money's worth.

Hooray for progress! Once you get the electrics all running, you can get on with the other fine-tuning, if you'll excuse the pun. For what it's worth, my first wiring job looked like an explosion at a lead smelter. You're doing great.

It's never a burden to address an earnest effort to understand. After first making sure you have long enough ground wire to span the distance between your components once they are installed in the guitar's cavity, you solder your ground to the lug on the washer, not the pot. You run your slim...

Well, yeah, but some of us may not be all that great at soldering and have perhaps ruined a pot or two in our day, and in any event find it easier and tidier to use a lugged washer. YMMV.

Zebras FTW!

Exactly this. Another way to pull this off is with these guys. You can just bend the tab up a little for clearance. https://www.mcmaster.com/products/washers/tag-washers-1~/ The StewMac parts are less expensive, and can be ordered individually, but I'll say this - McMaster Carr often...

I remember the plastic bag finishes and the hot rod flames. Heady times, indeed.