This could be git related or not. So, what's on your workbench at the moment?
I have 4 scarf joint necks in different stages of work.
A 25" scale pine 5 string neck for a Banjo-Res, A 25" scale Red Oak neck for my 6 string Strat-Res build, A 24 & 1/2" scale Red Oak neck for my 6 string Double Cut Tele build and a 27" scale 6 string Baritone Conversion neck for a Modern Strat body I have.
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I may put a Footnote 5watt amp in that cabinet and run the speakers in parallel.
I have a 1957 Motorola tube amp from a turntable that I can covert to a Marshall 18 later. I'll probably use the reverb tank from the Crate with it.
Like the headstock design. Why are the fret slots beveled on the fingerboard?
thanks Paul, its kinda been my go to headstock design for the last few builds. its nice and simple but looks really cool. The fret slots are slightly beveled as i intend to use finishing nails again for the frets (despite saying never again after the first experiment. the bevel will hopefully allow the nails to sit a little better after being glued down.
You got some nice looking gits on the wall.
One pickup was just a single coil with 2 magnets in a standard HB housing that was half dilapidated. I put it into a plastic Dogear P90 cover that I had. It only reads at 5.75 DCR, so it would make a decent neck pickup. I arranged the Firebird sized magnets on each side of the pickup poles like a P90 has.
The other pickup is a true standard size double coil humbucker in a metallic cover(material unknown) and a brass base plate. It has screw poles on one side and slug poles on the other. One signal/+ wire surrounded wire wire mesh for shield and ground.
The strange - It has 2 Alnico magnets(unknown strength) that are Firebird size. One magnet is flat against the screw poles and the other is on it's side against the first magnet and touching the slug poles. Usually they just use one magnet, Why 2? Another strange thing is the pickup only has a 5.32 DCR. Maybe this pickup was supposed to emulate a Filtertron sound? IDK Weird
Update on my Crate amp.
I thought about converting it into a 18watt style Marshall tube amp, but that would require buying a speaker or two to fit the cabinet. I have a 15" speaker in a cabinet that I made out of the kick drum shell and a chassis that I can use for that. So what to do with the Crate cabinet and speakers?
I had built my self built and designed dual 386 chip bridged amp (1watt) into a small tin that was a bit flimsy. So I put that into the Crate cabinet using the Crate speakers. Works and sounds great. Sorry for the blurry pic.
I finally got my parts from China... Almost 6 weeks of waiting, and I only got 5 of the 9 parts I ordered. Just so happens, it was the other 4 parts I needed to make my stand up 2 string thump bass and super diddley (Bass pickups and bass tuning machines). Sigh. I'm so hoping a 2nd box o' parts shows up like magic this week...
I think I'm going to ask my friend for a large wooden Blood Oath Bourbon box he has, and make a 3 or 4 string humbucker resonator using the stuff I did get.
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