Everything but the kitchen sink (no Warmoth content)
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Thanks -VB-. They're Fuzz Dog (pedalparts.co.uk) kits - a stripped-down, bufferless tube screamer type and an 'harmonic energiser', a Zappa-ish filter pedal. By pure coincidence, 'harmonic energiser' is what we call the rotaty, lighty-up thing on the back of the ray guns we have on my home planet; hence the name.
Ho hum.
I did the graphics with 'full face' waterslides, the application of which was more than slightly fraught and I wouldn't recommend it. That they look ok from operating distance is almost miraculous. Up close, well we just won't talk about it. Still, I only made them for me.
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Is it time to dig this thread up again?
No, not really. There has been a small amount of progress - I have just completed my first body blank glue-up! But it's mahogany and I appear to have made a sufficiently good job of it that it looks completely unremarkable, so I haven't bothered to take any pics of it.
So, as this thread has degenerated into my no Warmoth content show and tell, here's what I've been doing on my vacation:
Cosmetic upgrade to my already modified Harley Benton GA5 (same as the Epiphone Valve Junior plus a tone control - not sure if they called these something else in the US).
Not quite so pro around the back as the 'panel' is just diy inkjet printed metallic sheet that doesn't really understand the concept of 'flat'. But hey, it looks kinda cool and psychedelic, right? Maybe I'll get round to doing it properly one day.
Seems I just can't help myself - not sure the health and safety guys will be happy.
This is what it looked like originally:
I know the new sci-fi styling and silver/black don't really match well with the beige tolex and 50s grill cloth, so I guess I'll just have to make a new cab for it. My work is never done...
No, not really. There has been a small amount of progress - I have just completed my first body blank glue-up! But it's mahogany and I appear to have made a sufficiently good job of it that it looks completely unremarkable, so I haven't bothered to take any pics of it.
So, as this thread has degenerated into my no Warmoth content show and tell, here's what I've been doing on my vacation:
Cosmetic upgrade to my already modified Harley Benton GA5 (same as the Epiphone Valve Junior plus a tone control - not sure if they called these something else in the US).
Not quite so pro around the back as the 'panel' is just diy inkjet printed metallic sheet that doesn't really understand the concept of 'flat'. But hey, it looks kinda cool and psychedelic, right? Maybe I'll get round to doing it properly one day.
Seems I just can't help myself - not sure the health and safety guys will be happy.
This is what it looked like originally:
I know the new sci-fi styling and silver/black don't really match well with the beige tolex and 50s grill cloth, so I guess I'll just have to make a new cab for it. My work is never done...
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Slowly, slowly...
So, way back at the start of this thread I mentioned that the kitchen-worktop-surplus hard ash I was gifted needed some straightening out and it was to be planed. I was making use of, shall we call it, a 'community facility', where there was a planer. As I was not yet 'accredited' for its use, a couple of the good old boy regulars helped me out by whacking my wood through the whirring blades a good number of times. The result was like the surface of a pond - one that just that second someone had hefted a boulder into. Back to the drawing board.
Built a router planing sled after months on said drawing board. Made wood flat top and bottom. Tried out the jointing set-up on my router table. Made wood flat on the sides - and square. Woo!
It's lost about 10mm ~ 0.95" in these processes and it was only about 40mm ~ 1.55" to start with - well I did intend it to be a thinline! The walnut is about 8mm ~ 0.3", so it should just about make 38mm ~ 1.5". I won't be using long shaft pots!
Glued wood together:
No visible glue line there. Happy.
As you can see, I've used some of the walnut for stringers(?) as I thought it would look better than just three pieces of ash - and the top had plenty of spare.
Next jobs are cutting out some templates for the chambers...
...and getting the rather cupped walnut top jointed and glued. Current plan is to sandwich each half flat between two boards - unless I get a better suggestion.
So, way back at the start of this thread I mentioned that the kitchen-worktop-surplus hard ash I was gifted needed some straightening out and it was to be planed. I was making use of, shall we call it, a 'community facility', where there was a planer. As I was not yet 'accredited' for its use, a couple of the good old boy regulars helped me out by whacking my wood through the whirring blades a good number of times. The result was like the surface of a pond - one that just that second someone had hefted a boulder into. Back to the drawing board.
Built a router planing sled after months on said drawing board. Made wood flat top and bottom. Tried out the jointing set-up on my router table. Made wood flat on the sides - and square. Woo!
It's lost about 10mm ~ 0.95" in these processes and it was only about 40mm ~ 1.55" to start with - well I did intend it to be a thinline! The walnut is about 8mm ~ 0.3", so it should just about make 38mm ~ 1.5". I won't be using long shaft pots!
Glued wood together:
No visible glue line there. Happy.
As you can see, I've used some of the walnut for stringers(?) as I thought it would look better than just three pieces of ash - and the top had plenty of spare.
Next jobs are cutting out some templates for the chambers...
...and getting the rather cupped walnut top jointed and glued. Current plan is to sandwich each half flat between two boards - unless I get a better suggestion.
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After some head-scratching and a bit of a fight, managed to squash the curvy walnut well enough to get the edges straight and glue them together.
Tried to get a decent shot of it wet, but the light's not great and I was in danger of a family intervention to stop me doing a Hendrix at Monterey, there was so much lighter fluid getting sprayed around.
Don't worry about the holes, I'll take care of the holes.
Tried to get a decent shot of it wet, but the light's not great and I was in danger of a family intervention to stop me doing a Hendrix at Monterey, there was so much lighter fluid getting sprayed around.
Don't worry about the holes, I'll take care of the holes.
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Thanks for the kind words guys.
A little more progress for the record...
Hogging out the chambers:
Cleaned up:
If it's not obvious, the little protrusions are meat for the cavity cover screws to go into. Yes, shock horror, it's going to be rear-routed! Don't worry though, it will still have a scratchplate - of sorts.
Those of you with sharp eyes might have noticed that the body went from rough cut to fully shaved between the two pics, but I'm going to try to keep the design under wraps, possibly right up until the whole thing's complete.
Next up, more templates - for the rear cavity, cavity cover rebate and the cover itself. Try to control your excitement!
A little more progress for the record...
Hogging out the chambers:
Cleaned up:
If it's not obvious, the little protrusions are meat for the cavity cover screws to go into. Yes, shock horror, it's going to be rear-routed! Don't worry though, it will still have a scratchplate - of sorts.
Those of you with sharp eyes might have noticed that the body went from rough cut to fully shaved between the two pics, but I'm going to try to keep the design under wraps, possibly right up until the whole thing's complete.
Next up, more templates - for the rear cavity, cavity cover rebate and the cover itself. Try to control your excitement!
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fdesalvo said:
Thanks Frank, the feeling's mutual - I apologise for my lack of comment on your lovely Mr Doot, but it's made me slightly sad*. BTW, do you enjoy watching paint dry too?
Anyway, to keep the whirlwind of updates coming, I made a big hole in the back:
There's one on the inside too (and yes, it is meant to be like that; I can't quite remember why, but that's how it is in the drawings, so it must be right:
Stay tuned for more - including thrilling and blindingly obvious template-making/routing advice!
*I may explain this at some point...
