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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on February 10, 2019 at 8:50am

http://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/the-tone-garage/fine-tuning-the-a...

Another goodie.

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on February 10, 2019 at 10:59am

Hi Paul and Brian Q, thanks for the offer of a wiring diagram Brian, but as I do not throw anything away, I new I had one somewhere. it was in this file full of wiring diagrams. Now I have to make provision in the body for a selector switch.

I have always use the Duncan site for reference, I use Duncan pickups too.

Taff

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on February 10, 2019 at 11:25am

My Strat is going from 2 humbuckers back to 3 singles and I'm using 3 mini toggles. 

ON/OFF for the neck and bridge with volume and tone, but the middle will get a ON/OFF/ON for series/parallel and volume only for massive amounts of quack in parallel mode. Tone switched from middle to bridge pickup will tame the bridge treble and open up the middle pickup.

I'm also going to try cutting my own pickguard for it. I'm going to reverse slant(Hendrix style) all 3 pickups. The switching will allow me to play whatever combination I want.

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Permalink Reply by darryl kernaghan on February 16, 2019 at 5:01am

I don't know if this belongs here, but it's on my bench, about a week ago, I was having a clean out in my shed, [overdue], and I had a mini bandsaw that got destroyed years ago, and it was not much better, even before the incident. So, after umming and ahhing for a bit, I thought, yep, wood lathe seems the go to use the useable bits. A quick net search showed some elaborate, some simple methods, I went in between, pipe ways, timber head and tail stocks, I had all ready for final fitment, just waiting for a slow boat from China with pillow block bearings, when I realised the pulleys I had were not suitable for the drive motor, after looking around for pulleys suitable, the best I could find was about 15 bucks for a single sheave and much more for stepper sheaves. So, I  hit the market sites, [ gumtree/ craigs list etc] , had a couple of good buys, BUT, then I found a complete lathe , in bits, for 20 bucks, sold! Got it home on Thursday, made motor mounts etc, spent 5 or 6 dollars on a few fittings, and Bob's your uncle. It is lightweight, so no tree trunks to be felled, but 950mm centres, and 195 mm swing is more than enough for this boy at this time, as I have no turning tools, I have just tried it out today with normal chisels, [ bad decision], all the time I've spent keeping the edges straight and keen is wasted, full regrinds required. Anyway it works bloody well, and now I need to make fixtures and adapters etc, I  even tried a sneaky attempt at metal turning, trying to make a mini reso cone from a beer can, total failure, but raw material is unlikely to be an issue.Footnote:  I rarely get cranky nowadays, but this thing has about 8 bolts in it, counting the headstock mount [ 3/4" unf], but I need 5 spanners/ wrenches to work/ adjust it, some imperial, some metric, easy fix, but ATM, I have no uniform bolts of suitable length to get it back to 2 spanners, and 1 allen key.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on February 16, 2019 at 7:09am

Cool idea Darryl. Keep us posted.

I was going to re-purpose a washing machine into a bandsaw once, but never got to work on it.

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Permalink Reply by RTZGUITARS on February 16, 2019 at 5:13am

48v Brushless lithium mini bike/24v kid trike

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on February 16, 2019 at 7:11am

Cool. Now who's it really for? You or the kids? ;)

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on February 16, 2019 at 2:32pm

Hi, that's a nice conversion Darryl.

Here's another small bandsaw conversion I did couple of years ago.

Taff

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on February 22, 2019 at 1:03pm

Hi, more on the Pine guitar Project. As the 5 way switches are not in the box with the other stuff, I'm having a hard time working it all out.........so, I'm gonna buy some regular non active pickups.

I will be spraying the guitar soon as weather permits.

Set everything up for testing too.

Taff

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on February 23, 2019 at 8:44am

The fun is about to start. LOL

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on February 25, 2019 at 12:33pm

Back in 2015 I built my Green Glitter CBG with the Sprite can pickguard, homemade rollor bridge and tremolo with Gitty PBass pickups.(My Avatar Guitar)

The rollor bridge works great, better than expected.

The tremolo has an issue. You have to pull up on it after a dive bomb to get the strings back to pitch. It's not the rollor bridge. I think it's the springs for the tremolo. Instead of messing around with it further, I'm going to replace the tremolo with a Teisco type that Gitty and Guitarfetish sells. I'll have to add some wings to the end piece to have more area to mount too.

The Pbass pickups were separated, wired to a 4-way switch and a 250k volume to jack. They worked okay, but the pickups are low output(4k each) ceramic mag pickups and just weren't doing much for me. I thought about changing them out for high output Alnico 5 pickups(5k to 6k), but decided to try using a 500k volume pot first. Wow what a difference. These pickups came alive and are a lot more responsive in a good way. They act like little P90's, clear when lightly picked, gritty and fat picked hard. If you have any of these pickups and was underwhelmed by them, try a 500k volume pot with them.

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Permalink Reply by François on March 9, 2019 at 11:22am

I've just finished working on a new project. It's actually a new mobile workbench for my belt sander with storage for my sandpaper and a big fan with a furnace filter to reduce airborne dust... I just thought it would sound weird to say that I have a workbench on my workbench....

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