Hi all.
Man has it been a long time since I posted anything.
Of course I have a whole bunch of excuses:
- I'm still hoping my coleague will fix his CNC router, to save me from doing some really hard precise work.
- Since my wife's pregnancy I started work on the baby room.
- The baby room used to be my guitar room, so I'm without guitar building space at the moment.
- And last but not least: I have a beautiful son now. He's absolutely fantastic, but quite incompatible with the sound of woodworking!
So, until I find a proper (and affordable) worshop/garagebox somewhere, it's a bit difficult for me to practice woodwork.
BUT FEAR NOT! THE WARMACHINE PROJECT CONTINUES!
When I first designed the warmachine, I thought of it as the ultimate metal machine. One of the original plans was to integrate distortion circuitry into the guitar itself, hell, I was even in doubt whether it should be bypassable! (who needs clean sounds, right?)
This obviously required me to take a look at how effect circuitry is normally made. In my quest for this knowledge I stumbled upon websitessuch as BYOC, DYIstompboxes, freestompboxes and newtone, all of which offer a wealth of information about DYI effects circuitry! The last one (newtone) is a company based in The Netherlands that sells parts and compete construction kits of effect stompboxes. I ordered some of them and immediately liked the way I coul easily build these stompboxes and modify the way they look as well!
This obviously required me to take a look at how effect circuitry is normally made. In my quest for this knowledge I stumbled upon websitessuch as BYOC, DYIstompboxes, freestompboxes and newtone, all of which offer a wealth of information about DYI effects circuitry! The last one (newtone) is a company based in The Netherlands that sells parts and compete construction kits of effect stompboxes. I ordered some of them and immediately liked the way I coul easily build these stompboxes and modify the way they look as well!
So I decided to expand the warmachine project to include stompboxes! So far I've built an MXR Distortion+ clone and an Ibanez Tubescreamer Clone and I am currently working on the housing of a stompbox that emulates the capabilities of Mesa Boogie's Dual Rectifier sound.
As I'm still working on them you'll have to wait for some result pictures, although I will post some pretty soon.
Well,
good to be back, and I hope to post a little more often from now on!!!
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