I like it. I would make the 'w' symbol bigger, I like it in the hexagon shape, make that the focus.
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I like it. I would make the 'w' symbol bigger, I like it in the hexagon shape, make that the focus.
Thanks Sonic, I’m going to make it fill most of the bulb area and revert to the proper hexagon. I’m pretty much going to leave the rest as is.
It's all coming together very nice there FW... lovely grain going on...
I like the hex logo at the end more than near the string tee's...
Looks good Franken, nicely curved to follow headstock, I too like the hex logo at the end. the wording could also look good in red with black outline.
cheers
Guvna
I mocked up a couple of options with the red black but with that font, if you go too heavy on the black it obscures the font a bit too far. Given that there has been a slight red cast added with the DT clear I’m favouring black solid as this stands out more. The Hex is going to stay red with the black border though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guvna19
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A couple of options and some catch ups for other builds nearing the end of the line.
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I might have gone a wee bit decal happy this evening...
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Nice! They look great.
Looking good Frankie
Ha ha,looks like a butcher shop there FW, with all those necks hanging up. Great work on the decals though.
Love them! Nice sense of humour too 😋 Are they on the inkjet waterslide paper?
Nice one Dr.Franky. :D
i concur Dedman
Yeah mate, I’m up for upgrading into a laser soonish so hopefully that sharpens up some of the print and outlines. The inkjet can leave some gaps between passes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andyxlh
Gosh I love this strat
That font definitely makes the N look like an S to me with the added angle. So it reads 'Fraskeslab' at first glance. It's only by knowing what it's supposed to be that I can get my mind to read it as such.
Dammit! Now I can’t un see the ‘S’. Thanks Simon🤔Quote:
Originally Posted by Simon Barden
My pleasure, FW. :cool:
And if you want something else that you can't get out of your head, I found this annoyingly infectious
http://youtu.be/YEBFH9R3cg4?t=10s.
what in the actual funk was that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Simon Barden
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Hope nothing shorts out
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You may have jinxed me WazQuote:
Originally Posted by wazkelly
Not OTT at all. I normally leave a lot more foil on the top to make contact with the foil on the pickguard, and run the foil around several screw holes to maximise contact area. You'll never know exactly how well/flat the pickguard sits on top of the body, and so how much of the tape is in contact.
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I normally run the foil to the holes marked in red, and fill in the yellow areas with foil as well. It doesn't look as neat with the pickguard off, but it's not going to be seen.
Tin foil hat too perhaps?
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You can never be too careful.
In the words of the song....Quote:
Originally Posted by wazkelly
“Just because you’re paranoid, don’t mean they’re not after you...”
Thanks for the tips Simon, I’ve enough shielding left to do some bridging on those points.
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I couldn’t help myself, I had to mock up. Though I have found there are some significant electrical gremlins to over come.
I don’t have buzz, I don’t have microphonics, in actual fact I have nothing.....nothing at all.....I am, puzzled, to put it mildly.
I have noted that a lot of the solder joints in the factory pick guard were ugly, like, hated mother in law ugly. There are snipped wire ends still imbedded in the earth connections on the pots and the connectors. Most of them looked almost corroded around the periphery of the solder blobs as well.
The volume pot looked shot so I have replaced that with a new alpha pot.
Both the tones were wired with caps to the middle connector, and wired to switch from the left connector. I’ve since re-wired to a standard Strat diagram
https://guitarelectronics.com/strat-...iring-diagram/
But still no dice on noise...any noise at all. I’m going to back track from the Jack forward and see what else I can proof test.
I’m really hoping it isn’t the switch.
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As Waz warned about the grounding...
Loosen the jack plate cover and see if you get any sound then. The tip prong on the jack connecting to the shielding is a common event, and you just need to either put some insulating tape over the foil or rotate the jack so it doesn't happen. Preferably both for safety.
Would that not still give some sort of buzz?
Jack plate was my first thought too, plug goes in and shorts the hot arm/tip onto the shielding. Or, if your control cavity is a fraction shallow then switch lugs and/or its solder blobs could brush the shielding on the bottom once the scratchplate is screwed down tight.
No buzz, as any signal is shorted straight to ground. Not the same as you touching the tip of a cable connected to an amp as you aren't at ground potential (unless touching something connected to ground) and any noise signals picked up by your body then get amplified by the amp, hence the buzzing.
Dig the jack socket out if the body and see if any buzz or signal as i reckon that might be the culprit for an earth short, or at least best place to start the trouble shooting.
Like how it looks. Very classic.
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Cheers lads, I will have another crack at it tomorrow night, the day us a bit long in the tooth noe.
Sleep tight, don't let the Igors bite.
best thing for chinese electrics....throw it all away and start fresh you'll be chasing the electric dragon for ever
But these are Korean.......Quote:
Originally Posted by Dedman
they bought them from the Chinese!
My sentiments exactly.... If you feel you have wired it right then these are the first two places to look as they are the two most common 'drama spots'...Quote:
Originally Posted by WeirdBits
Will do that tonight if i get a chance. I was quote surprised by the state of the pot wiring. It honest looked as if the pots had been recycled from something else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcel
90 degree turn to the right on the jack, problem solved, now have the good noises.