Monday, July 2, 2018

Just finished a Handwired, drilled, painted Jokerface series pedal!





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!

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!

The board had been Cracked on mounted Input Jacks!
A real vintage look for a formerly cheap lil amp.
I replaced the volume pot and also knob with a small Chickenhead knob!
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

My Friend Jorge's Old Amp - Known for its New Order era bright sound!
Power Section that I am changing caps on in yellow board.




Old Leaky Smelly Ass Power Filter Caps!

Newly Installed Power Filter Caps, now much smaller than old production.








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!