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The stock neck and middle single coils in the Player strats are really, really good.  Like, good to the point where I wasn't going to replace them even though I had Lace Sensors ready to go in.

My not so wacky pickup combination was a Dimarzio Megadrive (bridge) and a Dimarzio Humbucker From Hell (neck).  It was all wired to a superswitch so the selections were Megadrive (series), Megadrive coil, Megadrive blade, Blade + HFH, HFM (series).

Now with knobs:

Well done, those are great!    Hope you made a pretty penny, they are worth it.

I think I charge a fair price - enough to fund the builds themselves and the next few for myself.  The funny thing is, I generally quote relatively highly with half up front before I start anything and people still want them....

Certainly, getting the Tayda paint/drill/uv enclosures has made it way less stressful.

Work backlogs aside, Tayda is pretty firmly fast and cheap with Good being more like "Good Enough"

Yeah, I find it's absolutely best practice to with a one colour print (white on a black enclosure in my other orders) or to get a white enclosure and just put the whole pic into the colour layer.

The clipping diode key on the south face is really smart!

Thanks, that was a request by the client - I can't claim it, lol.

While selling off my old builds on FB, I often get people wanting commission builds, usually for something (rare, obscure, expensive) that they don't want to pay for.  This is one of those times.  I had a bloke wanting a couple of Jimilee's Megarats but in an enclosure and styled more like the original Rat.

Anyway, this is the result, 2x Megarats in 1590bb2 boxes.  The desired layout means that the pcbs are only mounted by the clipping rotary switch and everything else is floating.  Not how I'd do it by choice, but whatever.  Leads are intentionally left a little long so I have something to work with if something goes wrong.  I've also started heatshrinking exposed solder joins on pots (not just on these builds either).

Tayda powdercoat, drill, and UV print.  I took a lot of time getting the white under the text properly aligned, but I think they struggle a bit with registration on the smaller fonts - ref the clipping list on the bottom panel.

Knobs will be the black/silver boss style.

One is going to Scotland, the other just up the road from me.  The client has a fair bit of experience with some other vector design app (I use Illustrator) and I learnt a lot doing these two.

Thanks Jimi for letting me do this and supplying the board docs.

I think this is the first time I've heard of somebody getting an "SL by Aria Pro II" stolen. That must have been the roughest neighborhood in the world. The pawn shop value in 2006 must have been north of Twenty...five dollars.

In all fairness, it was in a hardcase and they wouldn't have known what was in it.  They also stole the bass and rolled the car out into the street with all the doors and and hatch open.

It may not have looked like much, but it had it where it counted.  The floyd *never* went out of tune, and the Dimarzio Megadrive rocked.  I used to just run into my amp via the crybaby and used to get complements on my sound constantly.

That's a fun one. You know what it's made of?

They're marine ply dipped in some sort of sealer plastic.  Fairly common for budget korean guitars in the 80s.  Imagine this without the stain:

Going back to 1992, I got an "SL by Aria Pro II" and modified it by painting it black and later getting it stripped, floyded, and routed for HSH moving the bridge to the neck position and putting a Megadrive in the bridge.

Fast forward to 2006 and it gets stolen out of my car after a gig.  I always kept an eye out for it afterwards, and would browse ebay and marketplace for a similar one.  One turned up a couple of weeks ago with a HS set of EMGs and equipped with an ibanez floyd so I grabbed it.  The bloke reckons he's gigged it heaps but it's a little rough.  Someone has dug out the side fret markers and the paint has yellowed over time but there's nothing insurmountable happening.

I think I'll put some 80's fluro stripes under a black base on it at this stage.

Just finished this last week.  I've had it on my 2 prior laptops and only had the last couple of missions to go.  My laptop fell off a desk recently and I replaced it with insurance, so I decided to finally finish it.

Great game if a little repetitive towards the end.  Wasn't super happy with the ending, but it is what it is.

Currently Baldur's Gate 3 is taking over my gaming time, other than some online chess.  War Thunder has dropped off the wayside because of it.

Changed out a 500k gain pot for a 1meg, put in a red LED indicator, and knobs to reflect that...

Looking good! How do you like the screen printing service?

Yeah, I really like it.  Drilling, painting, and doing a full surface sticker with clear coat takes up nearly as much time as populating the actual boards, and there's so much room for mistakes in the process.  My biggest issue with the tayda UV is that I'll misalign something or get an older artwork version printed.  All user error, but they look pretty good imo and worth the extra cost.

Gutshots as there's a limit on the number of fines in the OP.

Scream Queen (Jimilee's King of Scream).
Clontaur (Pedalpcb Cliche Mini/klon)
Throbbing Brown Machine (Pedalpcb Gerkin/Swollen Pickle)

TBM was a commission job.  Everything else is me working through my backlog.

I used an NS/XX for the Scream Queen while it's a B sized pcb, I prefer BBs to be in portrait whereas the NS is roughly 2x125b side by side and I prefer that footprint.  Pots could have been spread out, but I kept them pcb mounted.

Still got no inspiration for artwork.  Enclosures are tayda drill/powdercoat/UVprints.

Willy.

Banged out a couple of Plexi type things.  Marsha800 is a Pedalpcb M800, and Marsha x3 is a Haberdasher Plexitone etch.  Both are Tayda drill/powdercoat/UV print.  I'll get knobs that fit that spacing on the x3 one day....  Messed up the alignment on the x3, but oh well, whatever.

I was logged on as Haberdasher, or Jimilee, or myself depending on what area of the forum I was in.

Wasn't able to post in the build reports until I was, neither are showing up in the subs, and with the second one I got an error page saying I'd already submitted the post.