Summer project, clean-up stuff you never finished edition.
I think i bought this over 10 years ago. It was all a box of parts never used, pretty sure the guy said he got most of it at Stewmac. I know the floyd copy is Stewmac, which could be a actual floyd variety, never really researched. There was a pickguard and a set of single coil EMG's with it. Still have those but currently have no extra strat bodies laying around. The X2N Dimarzio was out of a Samick red LP i got. Pretty sure i have a preamp in it, that's what the switches and small knob are for, there is a battery compartment on the back. Like i really need a preamp with a X2N. Anyway it will be finished sometime this summer.
Whats on your work bench?
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voodoorat
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Swapped the tone cap on my Vola JZ FRO to a 0.01uf. I’m pleased with the result and for me the result is a more useful tone knob and more versatile guitar. I may do the same thing on some of my other Fender-ish guitars. Don’t even know what the old cap value is, it’s about 10x bigger than the replacement though.
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glasshand
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Some years ago I swapped out the knobs on my Rat for bright orange mini-chickenheads which were a lot easier to see on stage. On a related note, for a while my preferred wah has been the Plutoneium Chi-Wah-Wah, and it has a similar problem: the stock knobs are awful. They're chrome dome-topped with a tiny dot to indicate position, and they are impossible to read under stage lights. (One really nice thing about the Chi-Wah-Wah - the controls all have a detent at the midpoint, so you can find it blind.) So I dug through my parts box, and found some other nice bright, easy-to-read knobs! You can see the difference:
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mozz
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This place is going out of business in a few days, but shipping is 8.95 so you have to order enough stuff to make up for that.
https://www.mpja.com/Pack-of-6-COLORED- ... /36273+KN/
https://www.mpja.com/Pack-of-6-COLORED- ... /36273+KN/
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Sad. I've bought from them more than a couple times. Great variety of closeout stuff. Also, an email says they're giving 40% off any order over $100. That's really good for some of their offerings.mozz wrote: ↑Tue May 06, 2025 5:02 pm This place is going out of business in a few days, but shipping is 8.95 so you have to order enough stuff to make up for that.
https://www.mpja.com/Pack-of-6-COLORED- ... /36273+KN/
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They're literally a few blocks away from me. I've been driving past there for the last twenty years every time I go to Walmart, never noticed.
Delightful mix of insolence, arrogance and narcissism
Proud RINO trapped in a heavy metal chassis
Growing up, only kid in the neighborhood with an Uncle Ahkbar
Proud RINO trapped in a heavy metal chassis
Growing up, only kid in the neighborhood with an Uncle Ahkbar
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mozz
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I have a soft spot for neglected beat up guitars, when they are cheap. Got this today, appears from my searches it's a Kawai about 1964 era. It has a wound g string and the others appear to be flatwounds. The zigzag bridge intonation points are set for a wound g string. If i put regular 10-46 on this 24.75" scale (20 frets) i do not know if it will intonate. Lots of pitting/rust/finish checking. Charm, relic with out even relicing it. To my surprise i get 2.8k on each pickup and 5.6k when both are on. The switches put them in series. Tuners are rusted shut. Other than that, i will totally disassemble, clean and shim the neck (you will see the string height in the pictures). Neck is rather slim compared to baseball bat neck Teiscos.
Added plus, that 70's strap is cool.
Added plus, that 70's strap is cool.
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Tiga
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I did a full fret level on this SX Gypsy Rose a while ago. At some point one of the higher frets (14 or 15th) lifted a little and caused some fretting out. This ended up in a case untouched for a while and I decided yesterday to see if I could get it straightened out. I tapped the high fret back in but now the surrounding frets were too high. I tapped in a few more and decided to do a focused level on the high frets to get them sorted and create a little fallaway at the same time.
I actually decided to sort this out with thoughts of selling it. Now that I have it in my hands again I'm not sure. Forgot how cool it is....
I actually decided to sort this out with thoughts of selling it. Now that I have it in my hands again I'm not sure. Forgot how cool it is....
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mozz
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Still working on the Kawai. Wax potted the pickups. Cleaned. Pictures later this weekend.
Meantime, Interfax Harmonic percolator. If you know, you know. I don't feel like writing out the whole story on this pedal. Stock version and a Steve Albini version. Figured put them both in this case since it's kind of big. Stock version is wild, out of control type of fuzz thou you can dial it back. The Steve Albini version is more tame, and i guess he used it in his band (not familiar with it)and his recording studio. He just passed away a while back and produced some VERY well known albums.
Next is the JHS NotaDumble pedal. There is a story behind this also and i happened to grab the kit before it sold out last week. There will be no more until the version 2 comes out. Already doubling in price. Trying different knobs, sticking with the last, gray ones. You can build this pedal in 15 minutes, the board is pre soldered and you just basically bolt it together. No sound clips, one of these days i will be set up to record.
Meantime, Interfax Harmonic percolator. If you know, you know. I don't feel like writing out the whole story on this pedal. Stock version and a Steve Albini version. Figured put them both in this case since it's kind of big. Stock version is wild, out of control type of fuzz thou you can dial it back. The Steve Albini version is more tame, and i guess he used it in his band (not familiar with it)and his recording studio. He just passed away a while back and produced some VERY well known albums.
Next is the JHS NotaDumble pedal. There is a story behind this also and i happened to grab the kit before it sold out last week. There will be no more until the version 2 comes out. Already doubling in price. Trying different knobs, sticking with the last, gray ones. You can build this pedal in 15 minutes, the board is pre soldered and you just basically bolt it together. No sound clips, one of these days i will be set up to record.
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