MOe's Guitar!

Heres a guitar I fixed up for my friend Moe! His nephew and niece really loved to see his newly working equiptment!

before

Before, Great Combo with CH1 Chorus!

Frets/board Cleaned and filed!

Pickups cleaned with lime/salt and scraper

Beauty! Gorilla tape the broken Pickguard!

I've got much better at crowning frets!

It was truely a great combo! Really Punk!

Dizzle's Acoustic

I did so much to this guitar over the years! For good and for bad.  It was my brother's in high school, and later my I picked it up when he left it at my dad's.  I unfortunately tuned it too high and messed up the bridge and got it a belly bulge!  Later, when I enrolled in guitar at Utep again I began to restore it.  It was bad.  The action was like 1/2 ".  I then took off the bridge with a hot knife I believe.  The bulge was bad, so I scraped and gouge out the guitar to make a level surface.  Then I got a new bridge and wood glued it and wood filled the surrounding area.  I used deep C clamps from Lowe's to adhere it to wood. I also filed a new nut for the neck to make the height of the string action sublime! Also, I filed down the huge frets to strat modern level.  Very smooth!  When it was all done I never painted it though.  I used it for the last part of the semester in my Utep guitar class and passed my final with it all ratty looking!  Later, I got my Ibanez steel string and it was set aside for a while...  Then, this past spring I saw my good friend Dizzle was in need of something to practice on and I hooked him up as he did me a lot of times!  This was contingent that he would actually paint it with the stain I had for years for it.  A week later it was his!  No worries tho, my bro still has my original Yamaha from High school so he is cool!

Potential 1953 Gibson Amp

This amp here a music store owner had me scope out.  At first it was playing really nicely, really nice but eventually fizzled out.  My main job was to figure out what it was as I was aware how much work it would need.  Whoever fixes an amp this old should jus buy it!  Neway after searchin into the wee hours I found the amp to be from as far back as '53 and was almost identical layout and board and caps to old Gibsons! This matched the date on its old speaker.  It was not a Fender tweed as they hope but far more unique.  It even had a tremolo that had a knob called frequency and an odd mic input.  Very cool.

1st version of Jokerface Series Silicon Fuzz Pedals completed!

This was the impromptu station I put up to build/wire/and put in the new board for my new Jokerface series I built with parts mostly from Mammoth Electronics.  I got the BC108c transistors on ebay.  They tested very well.  This version of the Jokerface is made to be the most economical and for younger musicians that want to be able to afford a good Fuzzface type pedal without spending the hefty prices they go for.  It will be for sale on Reverb soon. I'll keep you all posted.  

-Mot's Mods

New Mot's Mods and Customs on their way!

 A cool 90's CH 1 I got on ebay!  Took forever but sounds great!  I got the mod kit from Monte Allums Mods already and am looking forward to see what it can do!  (You can also see the box with the MXR Phase 45 Diy  kit for the future)

I finally am ready to start putting in handwired boards on some cool original Joker Fuzz themed Fuzzface pedals I am creating.  These will be totally unique and I am custom designing.  I am going to finish these here at my apartment while going to college.  I will have the one in this photo done first before I do anything else!  I'm so stoked!  Stay posted...

Fender Hot Rod Deluxe reissue is a great amp after all!

I repaired one for a local shop!  A lot of work but it turns out that a hot biased amp burned out a Power Tube and next cooked the pads next to the infamous Cement Power Resistors and the 2watt one on the footswitch causing all sorts of trouble.  You can see the yellowing board on this pic!  The replacements you have to put standing off the board at least a quarter inch!  Its funny, but with a few replacement parts, this amp sounds as good as a boutique amp and can rival many expensive amps easily.  The clean tone and tube squeal when pushed is phenomenal!  I wouldn't have placed a Overdrive effect on this amp though.  It really overloads it .  Its better to just have one main volume and push the tubes with boost like effects!

You see those big caps! I am replacing those next!

Circuit Boards replaced the old Point to Point Wiring, I don't know why!

Cooked looking spot behind Cement Power Resistors

Cooked Resistor connecting footswitch and various switching functions.

Cool new replacement knobs for my Studio Room Amp.

Its wild to think, but in a medium sized studio space this little amp compresses heavy guitar sounds and works great with wild distortion and fuzz pedals.  There has been some great results so far with a real bottled lightning effect!  I got the idea from Frank Zappa.  He would use a small Pignose amp and experiment with it in the studio.  I want to experiment with different types of rooms as well!