What are YOU up to, DIY/projectwise? Ask for help?

[RacerX]

Also:

Fuck neo guitar speakers in the neck with a knife.

[everdrone]

I have been considering neo guitar speakers for awhile but prolly wont ever get em

Ill prolly get another 212 orange closed back cab and some orange 112 cabs for transport to jams/rehearsals.  but that is on the back burner maybe get the cash for that in a few yearz

I WILL say though that they are great for BASS guitar, I have the gallien onez

[fallen]

All my Peavey cabs are sealed back / front mount speakers. They have great low end but if you want to look at the wiring or fix anything it's a real pain in the ass.

I want to take this El Degas Les Paul Studio copy that I have and fix it up but I have to figure out where to start and get going. The neck was split at the heel at one point and repaired so most of the paint is sanded off the back could be fun to finish the job and stain it or oil it with something. Need to do some research on what oils to use.

[Jake]

I recently made a simple volume attenuator pedal. Basically, this cute li'l thing does the same thing as rolling down your guitar's volume knob. I've always preferred doing that to channel changing or turning on/off dirt pedals. It works great. i think it was around $17 for all the parts—shipping was probably half of that, heh.

[spookstrickland]

I recently made a simple volume attenuator pedal. Basically, this cute li'l thing does the same thing as rolling down your guitar's volume knob. I've always preferred doing that to channel changing or turning on/off dirt pedals. It works great. i think it was around $17 for all the parts—shipping was probably half of that, heh.

Jake that is a great idea, I'm going to build one of them right away!  I'm going to try and put a tone pot in mine so I can switch over "woman" tone with the click of the switch.

thanks


Here is my latest project:  A vintage thomas organ crybaby with a TDK inductor...going to be installing a Joe Gagan "Tone Tank" inductor...here is the before video.

[spookstrickland]

All right here is the after installing the Joe Gagan "tone tank" inductor, it is very Clapton Cream like totally could do Tales of Brave Ulysses with this wah now. 

[showdown]

Been struggling with finish problems, but I hope I'm on the right track now.

[Danny G]

Good Lord that is beautiful.


And that wah sounds nice!

[spookstrickland]

Good Lord that is beautiful.


And that wah sounds nice!

Thanks Danny, I might do a vocal mod next, going to play with it a while before I get carried away LOL

[Danny G]

I socketed a bunch of parts on my crybaby and swapped things out to dial it in.

But that was before I found that the sound I was trying to get was mainly from the wah being *in front* of my chain instead of at the rear.

Oops. I should probably voice it a bit now, but already is 90% towards the sound I was trying to get in the first place.

[spookstrickland]

I socketed a bunch of parts on my crybaby and swapped things out to dial it in.

But that was before I found that the sound I was trying to get was mainly from the wah being *in front* of my chain instead of at the rear.

Oops. I should probably voice it a bit now, but already is 90% towards the sound I was trying to get in the first place.

Position in the chain makes all the difference.  I really dig the wah in the front for Lead type stuff and at the end for rhythm type stuff.  Now that I got two good wahs I'm putting one at the front and back of my signal chain so I got it all covered.

[spookstrickland]

Just did the "Jerry Cantrell' mod to my crybaby.  This mod makes rack adjustment a Breeze too!

[Pissy]

remember when I took that old Harmony combo, and basically turned it into a tube pre-amp?

http://riffrocklives.com/forum/index.php?topic=882.msg175661#msg175661
http://riffrocklives.com/forum/index.php?topic=882.msg179333#msg179333

I'm in the middle of building a head cabinet for it and the stewart power amp in that pic.

[socket]

My wife and I got a bass and guitar. Uhoh.

[Baltar]

Just did the "Jerry Cantrell' mod to my crybaby.  This mod makes rack adjustment a Breeze too!

BIG UPS SPOOK! I just subscribed to your youtube channel and A/B'd the two vids, Good God what a difference. I have Stack O' Dimes in my T.O. 'baby and I'm pretty happy with it. I did drop a Whipple in my last VOX 847 and it made a huge difference.










$50 Madison Heights, Mich Sears parking lot. I even asked the kid if he knew what it was, he said "yeah, I know, I'm just not into wahs". Hoooa-KAY. Thanks kid. MEEP-MEEP!

[spookstrickland]

Glad you liked it.  I really enjoy tinkering with wah wahs

Just did the "Jerry Cantrell' mod to my crybaby.  This mod makes rack adjustment a Breeze too!

BIG UPS SPOOK! I just subscribed to your youtube channel and A/B'd the two vids, Good God what a difference. I have Stack O' Dimes in my T.O. 'baby and I'm pretty happy with it. I did drop a Whipple in my last VOX 847 and it made a huge difference.










$50 Madison Heights, Mich Sears parking lot. I even asked the kid if he knew what it was, he said "yeah, I know, I'm just not into wahs". Hoooa-KAY. Thanks kid. MEEP-MEEP!

[Danny G]

So the end of the toggle switch broke off the 79 Iceman. In the case.

Went to replace it but the spare toggle was not the box kind like the original



Rather than alter the original old school wiring to accommodate the new switch, decided to put that spare switch in the Paul Stanley Iceman, which was also having toggle switch issues.

Works fine so far.

Acquired proper switch for 79 Iceman and will install in the next few.

Also got a 5751 (sovtek) lower gain 12ax7 variant to try in V1 of my JCM800. Tried one awhile back and loved it til it went microphonic.

Doing research turns out SRV loved them.


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[mortlock]

when changing strings on a full hollowbody instrument with a set neck, should you do one at a time or take them all off first..

[Danny G]

Depends on if you have a cat


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[Danny G]

Damn. Apparently my 40w soldering iron isn't hot enough to melt this solder :/



Would like to replace the toggle switch without cutting these wires (will have less slack to work with). Will try my luck with the de-soldering and hope for the best...


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[jibberish]

hey danny, i'm not really going to post much: too many people gunning for me, but I felt I needed to mention something to you to possibly save you future woes.

underpowered soldering irons are dangerous to the overall circuit.
the correct way to solder is to put enough heat into the immediate area to quickly flow the solder.
if you are underpowered, you have to soak the circuit for a long time. if the heat goes down semiconductor or electrolytic or any microprocessor doo-dad legs, it can destroy them, esp cmos.
furthermore, as the heat creeps down the circuits it can soften other solder joints resulting in crystallization=cold solder joint.

this deal with the switch does not apply since the switch can take it, but you may wish to get like a 60 watt adjustable weller for playing inside of pedals and amps.  $100. but they are pretty much standard in electronics assembly...that pretty much says it all.  like a ws51 or something like that.

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I have been making my own footswitches using microswitches. my regular piano style damper pedal has the travel of a piano pedal, except this pedal doesn't have to shift mechanical mechanisms like inside of a real piano, so I say to you "WTF?" I can just pivot my foot low and fast and tap a microswitch vs like working a clutch or something heh

[VOLVO)))]

-holds up pitchfork and torch-

THERES THE BASTARD! GET 'EM.


Welcome back you old fuck.

[Danny G]

@jib Yeah 40w was plenty hot to heat up the switch and little else haha ugh.

When I have time I'll investigate how many watts my de-soldering iron is.

After that I'll look into seeing if I can cut the metal braid right before the joint and slide the other wires thru in lieu of cutting them completely. But I may run into issues of then trying to solder the braid to the new switch if I don't have enough heat.

May just let a pro do it, cheaper than a new iron and my chihuahua has bladder stones


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[Pissy]

@jib Yeah 40w was plenty hot to heat up the switch and little else haha ugh.

When I have time I'll investigate how many watts my de-soldering iron is.

After that I'll look into seeing if I can cut the metal braid right before the joint and slide the other wires thru in lieu of cutting them completely. But I may run into issues of then trying to solder the braid to the new switch if I don't have enough heat.

May just let a pro do it, cheaper than a new iron and my chihuahua has bladder stones


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A bigger pool on the end of the iron will help transfer the heat to a larger area. Your trying to heat up too much mass with too little mass in terms of transfer area. Even though you're removing work, add solder to your tip to help the heating process along. You may need to remove solder later, but adding solder to melt it all and remove work, is effective. Just wick it later.

[Danny G]

Success.

Finally tired the de-soldering iron. No luck

Moved onto Plan C: cut the old solder joint off with a hacksaw.

Worked. Got the new switch installed and works fine.








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