This one took a while, but I finally got to it! It is an original style Silicon Fuzzface following the schematic pretty much to a T! The resistors are metal film and the capacitors are high gradio and for audio. I got most of the parts online from sites like Mammoth Electronics. I handwired everything and had a lot of fun getting all the parts to fit on this little circuit board too! Overall it sounds clean and can go from a really transparent overdrive to a super gnarly distortion due to its semi high gain bc108 transistors!
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HI! This is my blog dedicated to my electronic/musical endeavors. I build pedals, do basic repairs, fix amps/synths/pedals/mixers/drum machines etc. Ultimately, I put all my inspirations and descriptions of the work I am up to here. Tommy V.
Monday, July 2, 2018
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Hey all, fyi I got a lot of new repairs, mods, and customs to post about here soon!
Its been a while, but since school has been out for summer I finally got some time and have been building a pedal, modding a couple things, and rebuilding guitars! Plz stay posted for progress!
Friday, December 22, 2017
Repaired an Old Squier 15 Watt mini blues amp!
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The board had been Cracked on mounted Input Jacks! |
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A real vintage look for a formerly cheap lil amp. |
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I replaced the volume pot and also knob with a small Chickenhead knob! |
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I got my Dad to fit an old Woodcut I did in Art for missing backing! |
My friend gave me this amp that he had lying around that he said didn't make a sound. Later, I disassembled it and found it had a damaged volume pot, but that wasn't the problem. After replacing it with one of Mammoth Electronic's odd oversized pots I realized something was still wrong as there was no sound still. It all looked good until I took the board out and flipped it upside down. This time I cleaned the dusty old board well with an old toothbrush and rubbing alcohol. Now that I could see the board better I noticed a crack on the board severing the connections coming from the inputs jacks. So I used an exacto blade to scrape and expose the the cut copper path coming from jacks and soldered a bridge across using the legs of unused resistors I had. This solved the issue and now the amp works great. It has some very interesting eq's and works as a good monitor in my tight apt area and with my my strat. I read later that I can sheild those same two inputs better from the back to eliminate interference as well!
Friday, November 3, 2017
Guitar Parts for my Punk/Metal Custom Guitar!
I kmow what you are thinking! Why use an old crusty used squire body thats looks like its made of plywood! My theory is, 1 its solid, 2 its gana be a dual humbucker hard driven baby with the overdrive and distortion, and 3 to show you how electronics can really do the job when done properly to build your tone for a loud driven amp!
To be continued!
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Yamaha G100 - 212ii on going repair job. Vintage `81 Solid State Guitar Amp
Sunday, September 17, 2017
Thursday, September 7, 2017
LUis's Guitar
My friend from work Luis gave me this guitar with 2 broken tuners this summer. It was aweful to try to tune it with plyers. When I looked it up online I noticed it didn't seem to be pretty standard tuners. They were cheap ones and cost 25 bucks just for one. Fortunately, my guitar guy had a bunch of old japanese steel string tuners that I could take parts from. This guitar is a classical so I just needed to attatch the classical posts and wheels to the steel string vintage tuners. These were nice! They are way more nostalgic looking and only needed a lil 3 in 1 oil and some tuning experience. They look much better and I noticed the cheap Ibanez were converted into all these little pieces that were unnecessary crap! Now I love Classical guitars too. My friend didn't have the dough for the repair yet so I have been playing it in my apartment and in bed watching tv too. The thin belly of these type of acoustic make it really cozy! I even wrote a cool song that I performed one late night at a jam!
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