Built a micparts T12, and a Hairball audio Lola pre, and 500 series 1176. Fun builds, it all sounds great. Wanted one channel of exactly what our local ripper studio has been using to record my spouse that has been working really well.

I'm pretty sure any six year old could've done this but I built a simple latching switch pedal the other day. First time soldering since high school... definitely wasn't pretty, but it works fine.
Here's the professional vise I used for drilling the enclosure:

I'm planning on building this LPB-1 clone next. I have no idea what I'm doing and I'll probably fuck it up, but it should be fun.

Hell yeah, keep going

That vise is incredible!

Cheers!

Excited to start working on this new one today. It's cool that electronic components are so cheap... no idea what I'm going to do with these 99 other 390 ohm resistors though.

mrcancelled wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2026 9:50 am Cheers!

Excited to start working on this new one today. It's cool that electronic components are so cheap... no idea what I'm going to do with these 99 other 390 ohm resistors though.

String em together and you'll have a 39K!

mrcancelled wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2026 9:50 am ...It's cool that electronic components are so cheap...

It can add up real quick. having 99 of something leftover from a previous project is a blessing.

thecr4ne wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2026 10:16 am

mrcancelled wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2026 9:50 am ...It's cool that electronic components are so cheap...

It can add up real quick. having 99 of something leftover from a previous project is a blessing.

I still have 3 huge tray drawers of left over parts from like 15 years ago when I got into building Pedals and Drone Synths. Comes in handy to be able to just go grab a cap or led or something. The coolest thing is companies like Texas Instruments, THAT and other companies that make ic had places on their websites that you cold order "Engineering Samples" for free. They would send you like20 free IC chips just for asking. I still have a ton of 555 Timers and some Audio OpAmps from doing that and I could probably walk down stairs and build and entire pedal or mic pre with what I have lying around.

Finished up a couple of strat upgrades and part reuses in other casters.

on the Right is a MIM strat - it had stock HSS noiseless, which sounded fine, but I love the way this thing plays, so I found a deal on a Billy Gibbons Red Devil set - SC sized HB's. Got a black aluminum guard, put them in there and swapped it for the stock HSS. Added a toggle to add in the neck pick up to all positions, aka the 7 way mod. Added a kill switch cuz I like that with a gate and the spaceyyyyyyyyyyy delay trick.

On the left, total parts caster. Some non fender body with the right neck pocket, a 90's MIM neck, an amazon pickguard. The 2 single coils from the above description, then a Dunable Cthulhu in the bridge. Master volume, master tone and the same 7 way mod and kill switch added as above. The body on this is light, and thinner than a normal strat - the trem block sits about 1/8 inch proud of the back surface. I leveled crowned and polished these frets and it plays really great. Feels like a $1500 guitar. The dunable is bright and clean and the noiseless sound pretty good. This is my most polite sounding guitar lol. I really, really love the sparkle green and tortoise shell.

Lots of fun doing this stuff and a better use of time than scrolling. Learned some things, made some mistakes. So now I have a tele neck pickup, a strat HB bridge pup and a p90 sized super distortion to put to use somewhere....

Frankie99 wrote: Mon Feb 02, 2026 2:17 pm Finished up a couple of strat upgrades and part reuses in other casters.


On the left, total parts caster. I really, really love the sparkle green and tortoise shell.

that paint job looks amazing from here. I loves green, loves sparkle, so I loves some sparkle green.

The electronics choices are pretty cool as well. Are those Gibbons Red Devils as good as people say?