Anyone out there play guitar?

sparkbr · Post by **sparkbr** » 02 Dec 2009, 15:40

not sure if any of you out there play guitar or not, but here are a few of my latest projects.

Hand built copy of a 1958 Fender Deluxe - 5E3 - It's not quiet finished, but I'm hoping to have it done tonight for it's first trial.

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Hand built aluminum hollow body for my 'tele

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The Aluminum 'tele next to my first homemade amp (based loosely on a fender champ)

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Homemade tube screamer

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Captain Ahab · Post by **Captain Ahab** » 02 Dec 2009, 15:46

That is some awesome stuff - I plink around a great deal - mostly to the dismay of my family and neighbors

sparkbr · Post by **sparkbr** » 02 Dec 2009, 16:03

Captain Ahab wrote:That is some awesome stuff - I plink around a great deal - mostly to the dismay of my family and neighbors

I know what you mean, I finally had to build an attenuenator for that marshal cabinet when I have my tube amp plugged in. It just gets too loud by the time you have the amp cranked up enough to get the good distortion out of it.

cyberflexx · Post by **cyberflexx** » 02 Dec 2009, 16:15

I am going to start learning to play. I bought a cheap Peavey electric with 5watt amp. Its tuned and it holds a tune pretty good. I also have a Fender acoustic. I asked Santa-wife for lessons.

I built a "little smokey" amp but it has a high pitched squeal to it. I think I need to add a gain pot. or something to the circuit. I built the amp in a small computer speaker, put the jack on the front with an LED and a on/off toggle switch on top. runs off a 9volt battery.

sparkbr · Post by **sparkbr** » 02 Dec 2009, 16:32

cyberflexx wrote:I am going to start learning to play. I bought a cheap Peavey electric with 5watt amp. Its tuned and it holds a tune pretty good. I also have a Fender acoustic. I asked Santa-wife for lessons.

I built a "little smokey" amp but it has a high pitched squeal to it. I think I need to add a gain pot. or something to the circuit. I built the amp in a small computer speaker, put the jack on the front with an LED and a on/off toggle switch on top. runs off a 9volt battery.

That amp sounds pretty cool. Got any pics?

cyberflexx · Post by **cyberflexx** » 02 Dec 2009, 17:53

Here ya go...

Uses this Schematic, but I added a LED and Switch..

sparkbr · Post by **sparkbr** » 02 Dec 2009, 18:10

That's very similar to the tube screamer, just in a stripped down version. Looks like it uses the opamp for gain only. I like it.

cyberflexx · Post by **cyberflexx** » 03 Dec 2009, 10:37

maybe a variable cap between pin 1 and 8. I think a .47uf cap might work as well, not sure.
Maybe get more power out of it by stepping up the voltage to 12volts with a wall adapter.

The Little Smokey amp also has an output and this one doesnt. The Little Smokey will actually drive a 4x12 cabinet and rock pretty good. Check you tube for Little Smokey amp videos.

rickmathew · Post by **rickmathew** » 08 Dec 2009, 02:25

I love to play the Guitar. Good to see the Guitar pictures here in this post. All the Pictures are really interesting.

Crankworm · Post by **Crankworm** » 08 Dec 2009, 19:47

shouldn't that tele be on the tinaxe website?

how does it sound? It looks awesome!

sparkbr · Post by **sparkbr** » 08 Dec 2009, 19:58

Crankworm wrote:shouldn't that tele be on the tinaxe website? how does it sound? It looks awesome!

Hahahaha, nice, and thanks. It sounds great, hard to describe the tone change, almost like it broadened the range of tone rather than just a brighter tone. My uncle has been playing in a local blues band since his teens and wants me to build another for him, but mount a tube screamer and a delay pedal inside the guitar. The plan is to put the pedals on mini toggle switches, then have trim pots inside for the tone/gain/level/delay. It'll probably be a month or two before I start that one though.

sparkbr · Post by **sparkbr** » 23 Feb 2010, 16:44

Well, haven't worked on it for awhile, but I finally got the Fender deluxe mounted inside a cabinet.

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ForkliftJeff · Post by **ForkliftJeff** » 28 Feb 2010, 13:54

I haven't played much since I got married, but here's mine just after I bought it about 5 years ago.

Post by **Brine** » 28 Feb 2010, 15:19

Here's one of mine I put up for sale yesterday.

https://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/msg/1620931754.html

bearsphan3.14 · Post by **bearsphan3.14** » 12 Mar 2010, 23:12

Here are my babies. The electric has been through hell, but she's still kickin