About a year, year and half ago my friend Gary, who is the drummer at my church asked if I wanted this amplifier. I guess one of his friends left it at his house years ago and didn’t want it back, so he asked me if I wanted it. Thanks Gary for the amp! When... Continue Reading →
Lets replace a 2-prong power cord on an old tube amp, with a 3-prong cord. Now we need to pause right here and I just need to say that there are some dangers in working with tube amps. So if you don’t know what you are doing I recommend that you don’t poke around inside... Continue Reading →
If you like to build various electronic projects an easy way to get a great looking panel for holding knobs and switches is to use a piece of brushed aluminum. The first thing that you want to do is pick up an 1/8th inch thick piece of aluminum, there are some common sizes of flat... Continue Reading →
Problem: I want to connect one pair of speakers to 2 separate amplifiers. Solution: Build a Switch box! Materials Used: 4PDT Switch, Aluminum Faceplate, Speaker Terminal Connectors So I am going to build a switch so that I can hook up 2 amplifiers to one set of speakers. Now what I need for this is a 4 pole... Continue Reading →
So here is a little DIY piece of gear that is super simple to make. And I think it is worth throwing in your gig bag and bring along with your guitar pedals and can really save the day. Materials: Power Connectors, Battery Clips This is just a 9-volt battery with a battery clip, soldered to... Continue Reading →
So I have a Martin d-18 acoustic guitar and the Binding at the waist of the guitar is peeling away. Now usually this is caused by humidity and or temperature changes in the guitar so the best way to prevent this from happening is to keep your acoustic guitar at a consistent humidity and... Continue Reading →
So on a Saturday morning I headed out to record some drums with my band. Now our drummers drum set was setup at his church since it is the kit that they use every Sunday for services, so rather then hall them away somewhere else to record and then have to bring them back we... Continue Reading →
Built this Frankenstein of a guitar to scratch an itch I had about combining guitars and MIDI. The body has the outside shaping of a Fender Jaguar, while the inside pickup and bridge placement is setup like a Fender Stratocaster. This makes the guitar play and sound like a strat, but there is extra space... Continue Reading →
The first thing that I did was flip the amp over to take out the screws to get inside. Once I was inside thankfully the lights that I needed to replace were right on top in the front of the amp, you can see there are 4 bulbs stuck in the back of the vu... Continue Reading →
In this video I show you how to apply a wood veneer to MDF speakers. In my previous post I built a parts-Express speaker kit and now it is time to make the speakers look as good as they sound. I picked up some walnut veneer from my local hardwood dealer and got to work... Continue Reading →
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