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Mate, if you get that up and working, I'll give you guys $200 right now.  Who does your missus work for - Vinnies or Salvos?

That's hot!  The local guitar store has a pink one that looks killer, but I know I'm not man enough to play a pink one 

I don't play well enough for a pink guitar.

I'd been after a black strat with a floyd for ages - buying some squier some random had dropped a cheap chinese one into, buying parts and putting them together, but I sold them along the way because they were never that good.  Nearly got the Player Floyd, but went with a more trad Player Strat and modded that.

But then Charvel Japan did this.... I'd been watching it for nearly a year I reckon before I finally got the courage to grab it online.  I'd say it's nearly perfect but it's missing a reverse headstock, lol.

MJ Charvel Socal....

Gudday all.  Nothing super exciting to see here really, basically rehousing a couple of the boards from my Random Stranger build years ago.

I'd removed the XLR driver and used it in an amp build last year, and cannibalised the footswitches from Random Stranger a while ago and decided I'd recycle the main boards into something smaller.  So, here's Funk Soul Brother, featuring the usual current amount of graphical inspiration I don't have and datapol on black etching primer.  The box was recycled from a TDA amp project that was super noisy and didn't make the cut.

This works as expected.  The NE-1 only makes unity with full volume, so maybe there's something grounding that shouldn't be but I did sub the original 20kB pot for a 10kB just to finish it off.

Lots of spaghetti, but I've given up on trying to make multis on vero look good inside.

Original build:
https://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=15890.0

I've still got my original Pepers' Rocket Sockets.

Love your work Jimi.  Getting busier and busier.

Sorry for the necrothread revival.  Anyone got any kicking around?

Willy.

I found one at a garage sale a couple of years ago for $20.  After a battery replacement/clip installation and purchase of a step down transformer we were good to go.

I didn't like the feel of the buttons - I felt like I was getting callouses from all the pressing with minimal give.  It sounded great for the most part.

Anyway, I captured it into my Mooer Preamp Live with a couple of different settings (Nuno, Vernon) and sold it for AUD$400.  I probably should have kept it just because it's such a classic piece of gear, or I should have held out for more money (it didn't shift at $600), but I doubt I'll ever get another one - I just don't need it, and I don't think I'll ever find one at that price again, lol.

As it is I never used the capture, preferring my Blackstar HT-Dual capture in the MPL (which died later anyway).

There's a jfet vero version lying around on the tagboard forums.  Maybe I'll build that one day, but there are plenty of other options that do what the MP1 does just as good if not better.

I gave you a bit of grief about these in your original post last year or whenever it was, but I'm big enough to say that these look great.  Definitely interested in a couple.

How are you getting such good colours on a black enclosure?  I haven't found Tayda's colour registration to be super sharp when going over a white base the same shape as the top image.  They never really get the two lined up properly.

3 is a decent first step into the 3D/FPS style world, still retains some of the bigger RPG mechanics—it's almost Elder Scrolls Oblivion but in the post apocalypse. Like how I feel with most Bethesda-developed titles, LOTS of stuff, some of it really neat and moving, a bit disjointed narratively, and a bit too "hallway" in some parts.

I feel like Fallout 3 and on are more like Oblivion reskins than anything else.

I'm mildly concerned about this for my own projects: I have a buffer of 2mm on each side for the Sardine Tin v.3 meant for a 1590N1— measured based on the Hammond CAD drawings. I mean, I'd feel bad for someone who buys a board then goes and orders something that's a "125B," and then come to find it doesn't fit. And judging by the fitment of that board in a C65, I don't think it will ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And then you have whatever clones Tayda are selling that have thicker walls and tops too.  You're flat out getting a washer and nut onto a 9mm pot with a painted/stickered/poweredcoated Tayda 125b.

My options to Australia are UPS and DHL, both 2-4 day delivery.  DHL has been shocking lately, it gets to Australia overnight and then spends a week in the system before I get it.  Going to try UPS next time.  I think I've used them before but I can't remember.

So I saw a bloke on FB with a bunch of superstrat projects up for sale, and saw a Kramer Striker in the listing.  I asked what he was after and if he'd trade, pointed to the pedals I had up for sale, and he agreed.  After sending photos of the packaging and tracking numbers, we put our respective packages in the mail (1000k+ away from each other) at the same time.

I got this for my Reactor, Hellboy, and a Ly-Rock Ceres clone.  It's complete other than cavity covers and neckplate.  One of the tone pots is knackered and won't turn, and the frets need replacing or a good hard sand but otherwise it's in really good nick.

Willy.

Thanks, and yeah, it's just the opacity slider up the top.  I also did this with my Clone of Tones Deluxe.

Gudday all.  I pulled my initial Hellboy build apart a while ago as there was some squealing going on occasionally, probably due to having two high gain vero circuits sandwiched next to each other in the one 1590DD.  I reclaimed and filled that box with just the Seventh Heaven, and finally got around to boxing up the Black Forest.

Again, this is a tayda drilled, powdercoated, and UV printed enclosure.  It's their gloss black powdercoat, but only white printed.  Interestingly, you can change up the opacity in the white layer and this is how I did the faded forest graphics.

When setting out the UV print template I forgot about the clearance needed for a 2dpt so the "Width" control has been hardwired
and replaced with a dummy pot to fill the hole.  I'd actually meant to put gain/vol/width on the second row to get that clearance from the jacks, but I forgot and there you go...

I promise to get some knobs shortly.

Willy.