Your Grandma's Lorus

[Rich_S]

Here's my latest, a Slow Lorus build with only diode clipping.  Low-budget build using mostly parts I had in stock.  I did have to order an enclosure for it, but the first one that arrived had its powdercoating messed up - the coat was thin on the top and showing gray spots through the pink.  I was too impatient to wait for the second box Smallbear sent me, so I started thinking of ways to cover up the gray spots.  Then I remembered I had some samples of stick-on paisley that a guy from the TDPRI sent me a few years ago.  The enclosure was a perfect color match, and I had some tan knobs that matched the decal's background.

The sound is, of course, typically Rat-nasty.



Now I have the replacement enclosure and plenty more stick-on Paisley.  Hmm....

[Leevibe]

Nice job. I love the paisley! No guts?

[selfdestroyer]

Great job with the colors and knob selection. Would love to see the insides... Don't be shy

Cody

[Rich_S]

The guts are a mess.  Since it's a parts-box build, the pots are whatever I had, don't match, and have flying leads.  A Rat's nest, as it were.

[bcalla]

Good save!  looks great.

[catfud]

Lovely looking build! Never mind wolf in sheep's clothing, this is a rat in a hippy's kaftan ;-)

[Rich_S]

Here's the inspiration, my old friend Tina playing her MIJ Paisley at our Drexel U. 25th Reunion in 2009.  The Paisley's always been a band joke with us, because the MIJ RIs first came out around 1985 when Tina was graduating and looking for a new guitar.  The guys in the band were teasing when we said, "You should get a pink paisley guitar 'cuz you're a girl."  Tina, who is in fact quite hippy-ish, was not offended but instead turned it around on us and thought the idea of a pink Paisley Telecaster was awesome.  This is her second, the first being lost in a house fire many years ago.



I'm the fat guy with the red Nashville.  I think if we ever do another reunion gig, I'm going to build Tina a combination dirt box and chorus in a large paisley box.

[selfdestroyer]

+1 for the matching chucks with the tele.

Cody

[diablochris6]

I am a sucker for paisley. Great job.

[peAk]

Can't go wrong with paisley

Awesome job!