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Originally Posted by angry pancake
wanted to learn indoor gardening. Got the hang of it pretty good so far. still been less than a year.
Been tinkering with guitar cabinets for a while. Can wire them in series and parallel and all, but really all you need to do that is to look at how one is already done and copy to learn that. But have thought about learning to build tube amplifiers in the last month or so. I have doubts that will ever come to fruition as I don't know the first thing about electronics and would have to start from scratch. rebuilding a speaker cabinet is one thing, but transformers and capacitors are another. The other issue is I have no idea where I'll get the time to do this right now. And the older I get the more frustrated I become when things don't come to me immediately. The thought that not having any idea what I'm doing, but using electricity, has also been a slight deterrent.
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Decided to completely redo a cheap ass 1970s bass. The neck and body seem to be good quality materials. Everything else, except the frets are going to go. Unfortunately I started this long ago. When I started tearing out the old stuff I didn't even think to take pictures. I finally got around to removing the old electronic circuitry.
What we have in this picture are the old pickups, volume and tone pots along with the imput jack all mostly still wired together. Also is the old bridge.
Next is a picture of the body with the new bridge already installed and the new pickups were also installed. Those were a pickups were a bitch to get in properly and I'm not unsoldering anything for the sake of a picture.
A close up of the Gotoh bridge. The silver screw is the one being used for the ground wire to attach to. It's a much shorter screw.
Dimarzio pickups.
Not the best picture, but this is the electronic circuitry and imput jack. I soldered the wiring. The pickguard came preshielded from Fender.
A better picture of the back of the pickguard and electronics.
The headstock that bears the logo of this cheap ass relic. I haven't quite got to this part yet as it took a while to find black chrome tuners that match the bridge. After I receive those, it's just a matter of switching it out. Stringing it up and adjusting the intunations.
