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I’ve pulled the pick guard off my red right (bit unintentionally Nick Cave there) handed Roswell pickup PB-50 this evening, and there are no extra holes in it. No idea when it was made, but the Roswell pickup suggests a more recent build. anyone want a white pick guard for a black one? This still has the plastic on it.

It on its way to Nick tomorrow I'm afraid!

So the Tangband does not fit into the ammo can, too wide, very annoyed, might build it into a tiny combo style amp with a wooden cabinet... However, I have found some Peerless SDS-135F25CP02-06 drivers I bought for another project years ago, and one of those will physically fit, need to get the driver into Hornresp or bassboxpro to model the driver/box combination and see if it will work. They are recognised as a subwoofer on the datasheet and do 50Hz-5kHz I think.

Driver is optimised for low bass in a tiny (7-8l) box. Hoffman's iron law, 'low, loud, little, you can have any 2!) It going to have poor efficiency, for a practice amp I can live with that. There may be a better amp chip out there for that driver actually. I'll probably start with TPA3116 as I have those on a nice pcb already to play with.

Looking to use a TPA3106 class d amp which runs off 10-26v so scope there. A 6s lithium battery would work nice if I want portable. I have various power supplied, I'm an electronics tinkerer/hoarder. I doubt it will be too damped, I don't want ringing, and a box in a box should seal up nicely. This is the driver combo I have, there may be issues getting the passive radiator in too: https://www.soundimports.eu/en/tang-band-pr14-b.html It may also lack top end, so all could change yet... Will have to have a play and see what I can do.

Yeah rattle and vibration wise I'm thinking of a thin wall (9-12mm) wood enclosure that is bonded with a flexible adhesive to the inside of the ammo can to give stiffness and damping, hopefully that would stop any ringing. I've a little bass driver from Tangband that should hopefully fit for wobble duty, thinking about the pre-amp side of the amp and tone controls at the moment. Should all run off about 24v, so lithium battery or mains adapter is all possible, I would like to get the lid back on and everything in there if possible for storage/transportation. Once I get somewhere I'll post some pictures. I'd love to do the whole retro chicken head knob thing and keep the looks all period, but I fear space may be an issue.

Very cool. I'm trying to build a tiny combo into a 50Cal ammo can at the moment. Small class D amp based. Not sure if to go mains or battery (or swappable between the two) as its only really a home practice amp. You can get cardboard tubes for casting concrete pillars into, Google 'sonotube' if you want more info.

If you cover all shipping costs +one pint of guiness for my troubles yes. Where would you want it posting? Just checked your profile I'm off to Pocklington with the family end of this week, that's more your neck of the woods!

I've been hanging on to this for years, and the state of the bench says i need to thin the projects out a bit. The original bass completely collapsed, I was asked to get rid of it and I salvaged this bit. My plan was to repurpose it into a 5 string electric upright. In my head it was a very cool idea. Honestly, never going to happen, even if I did I probably would be rubbish playing it. It's a bit rough as you can see from the pics, and the fingerboard needs re bonding as it's started to lift a little. So anybody want a slightly daft project? I'm near Portsmouth but work in Bloomsbury London for collection.

So, got it home: the wife has named it Roary after the racing car cartoon. I see her point, don't like the colour, but £60 I can't complain. Thinking of refinishing in Olympic white with a tort guard to match my tele, ir possibly trying to chamber the body like a thinline. Also wondering if there is a lefty out there fancy swapping necks to do the inverted headstock/Dusty Hill look.

If you find it that would be appreciated.

Is there a DXF of the headstock floating about (I can buy one off electric herald)? Only I have a laser cutter and waterjet at work so could do a nice template to bolt through the machine head holes and route with a bearing follower.

might well give a set of the nickel ones a go.

So.... might have bought a Harley Benton PB-50. Picking it up tomorrow. Every intention of turning it onto a project, fenderifying the headstock and something funky with the body and paint. And learn to play it! Edit: Also, I came into this looking at spending £250ish on a squier possibly double to consider MiM Fender Ps. And I've spent £60, in all my years on various forums when you ask for advice with a budget, it only ever goes one way by the time you get to a purchase.