Lord Sausage

On 07/05/2024 at 09:14, Lord Sausage said:

It's going to take forever to get all the last flecks of finish out of the grain so I've spoken to Wudtone. If I use a pigment dye, once I get most of the finish off, that will cover over the previous.

 

So I'm gonna go with one of these Not sure which yet.

 

Does anyone have any advice on contour sanding the edges? it would have to be hand sanded.

Think I'm gonna go with the surf green. Gonna try and get it sanded to 240 over the week 

It's going to take forever to get all the last flecks of finish out of the grain so I've spoken to Wudtone. If I use a pigment dye, once I get most of the finish off, that will cover over the previous.

So I'm gonna go with one of these Not sure which yet.

Does anyone have any advice on contour sanding the edges? it would have to be hand sanded.

Just realised I started this thread 3 years ago today 😂

On 30/04/2024 at 18:18, Lord Sausage said:

That's the first pass on 80 grit. If every remnant needs to go i will have to go down to 40 grit then come back up thru to 180.

Well I've gone at it with 40 grit and it's beginning to get the rest out. Hope the body doesn't end up matchstick thin!

I imagine I'll have it back up to 180 in a week or so.

That's the first pass on 80 grit. If every remnant needs to go i will have to go down to 40 grit then come back up thru to 180.

Thread Resurrection!

Basically the wudtone finish didn't take well at all. Hardly any went on and it looked a weird green as opposed to what it should have been. I put this down to me not preparing it well enough but who knows.

Anyway, it pissed me off so I sacked it off. Realising its a sanding down back to bare wood which I couldn't be bothered with at the time. Now 18 months later, I'm ready to try again. Sand it down and try the customer finish again. If this fails its spraying time.

I've bought an orbital sander and started to sand it down.

My question is

Doesn't every single trace of the previous oil finish have to be removed from the grain for the next oil finish to stick?

Cheers 

9 hours ago, musicbassman said:

I’ve done rather a lot of dep gigs, so here are just a few examples of what might happen :-

 

“No problems mate, everything’s played in the original keys” – Err - no, I discover this lie immediately the song starts.

Drummer’s count in for a song may have no relevance to the actual tempo that follows.

Guitarist thinking that the first chord of a song is therefore the ‘key’ of the song.

“We play it just like the record” – apart from the fact you completely missed out the Middle 8.

Guitarist and kbds player are clearly playing different chords at the same time.

Whole band staring at you as if you are some genius because you played the actual main hook bass line from the song, rather than what their regular bass player Billy plays.

Band appear to have taken a vow of silence and all clearly hate each other both on and off stage. And the reason you’re depping is that their regular bass player has already abandoned the sinking ship.

“Can you arrive 7pm, we start playing at 8pm” – so, you’re set up on an empty stage by 7.15, but the rest of the band start arriving half an hour later with no apologies or explanations.

 

Actual fact, I love doing deps, they can be great fun, but equally can be very annoying and frustrating.

You have to be prepared for anything and everything  🙂

 

Definitely this. I do enjoy it when you've learned 30 songs in a week and you know the set better than the band do. 

Also when you play the correct line but they think its wrong as their usual guy has been playing it wrong for years.

I once played Alright Now, when it got to the guitar solo and the famous bass line they thought I must be Andy Fraser cos they'd never heard it like that!😂

Seriously though, just go to enjoy it for yourself. It's your experience, not anybody else's. It should look after itself then!

Cocaine

Hi everyone.

Just tried it out. I'm really happy with it. Paul, who made it is a legend!

I didn't really notice much difference when switching the Ac/passive switch. I'm not sure if it's just because I didn't have the amp on loud.

Does this switch just knock a couple of dB of the input or does ot effect the gain knob? I'm not too up on all that stuff.

Cheers

Didn't he also write Living in America for Jimmy Brown?

26 minutes ago, rainbowreality said:

It's a really useful pedal, you can dial in a really wide range of sounds, I'd also recommend the little Mofo preamp - 4 different amp modes with some really nice overdrive/fuzz if you push it

Is that Fuzzdog too?

It's finished, I pick it up this week!

Can't wait tbh!

More pics sent to me of the build

The bazz fuzz kit has arrived. I have no idea what I'm doing. I'll put pics up on here when I have finally done it. In about 2036!

4 minutes ago, bobbass4k said:

People do it lots of different ways, my general method -

 

Drill first

Sand with 400 grit

Coat of primer, dry

Coat of paint, dry

2nd coat, dry

Apply label graphics

Coat of clear coat, dry

2nd coat of clear coat, dry

Sometimes 3rd coat of clear coat

 

The clear coat I use is good but it takes a.while to dry properly, in summer I stick them outside under a pyrex bowl to get the benefit of UV - I've toyed with getting a UV lamp.

Cheers,

So no sanding between coats and you don't have to polish the clearcoat.

Thanks a lot 

Don't know if anyone has the the Fuzzdog Logical thread that I did  recently. Someone is building it me. Anyway, in it I said I'm gonna do the bazz fuzz as my first build.

I'm going to order it today. Does anyone have any experience of spray painting the enclosure?

Is it just the same as spraying a guitar but using auto paint instead? 

It's more the prep I need to know.

Do you sand enclosure to 320 grit?

Do you sand between coats?

Do you polish the clear coat at the end?

Cheers

1 hour ago, ahpook said:

Wow, that looks fantastic. Really nice finish !

 

Beats my rather plain enclosure. It's blue and white like clouds cos it's a clean preamp...sort of made sense to me

 

 

Look forward to hearing what you think of the preamp when it's all done..

please remember that I'm not making it. Not a chance of me doing anything like that.

I can't wait to get it tho.

I'm tempted to do the bazz fuzz as my first attempt!

It's not finished but it's looking pretty cool!

Update on this. 

Someone is building me one. Got in a conversation with someone who just loves building pedals. He's also an artist. He really wanted to do it, so who am I to argue. Also it will be a thousand times better than if I did it. I will get round to doing one tho. Maybe the Ampeg one.

I'll post pics on here when it's done.  (The logical one)

Thanks everyone for the input. It was between that and the ampeg clone. Think I might do the ampeg one after this.

Hi,

Does anyone have any experience of this pedal or know of a demo video of it?

Thinking of building one.

Cheers

Mean Mr Mustard

Polythene Pam

She came in through the bathroom window 

Abbey Road 

So what strap length is the best for metal?

My band practice for 1 hr max and try to blast off 2 tunes every practice. Just get in, play through the 2 we did last week then hammer two new ones.