yeah that would be cool Chuck and I would give a bonus point score judging it in GOTM if you did that !
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yeah that would be cool Chuck and I would give a bonus point score judging it in GOTM if you did that !
Okay, time to reveal the other thing I've been working on in relation to this build... I think there's a thread somewhere I mentioned that I was starting to build a pedal, and here it is!
The Surfmaster will need some fuzz, so the "Surface" pedal was born (a "Surf" inspired Fuzz "Face" clone... see what we did there!). I picked up the kit from diyguitarpedals.com.au (it's their Facemaster kit), and eventually got it together under the watchful eye of a mate who knows about this stuff way more than me. My daughter then painted the enclosure and today I put it all together.
It actually sounds pretty good - but I'll save sound files until the guitar is complete. The only rookie error is that the tone knob has ended up back to front, so rolling it back actually brings in more highs. I guess I could fix it but I kind of like it - as a bass player I think it makes sense that turning up the tone brings in more bass!
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cool looking pedal Chuck, great the the surfcaster will have a matching pedal
The font is Brushscript and I did it all in Photoshop (created an outline for the font, then played around with "brown" tones to fill to try and get as gold as possible.). All the various logos etc where then dragged into Word where I played around with getting the sizes right. I then picked up some laserjet waterslide paper off ebay and printed it on the laserjet printer at work. It's much simpler than I thought it would be.Quote:
Originally Posted by gavinturner
Unfortunately I don't have access to Photoshop right now as I was using the work copy, and I've just left that company! As soon as I find a Photoshop source I'll get details on the brown/gold colour - or I could send you the Photoshop file and you could play around with my template?
Great paint job on the pedal, very cool. Which reminds me, I've got a Facemaster kit tucked away somewhere that I should get onto sometime.
Weirdy I reckon your house is full of unfinished projects and you have more than I do !
Thanks man that's great. Unfortunately I dont have Photoshop only Gimp (the freeware app ;) ). Given what you've just told me I may be able to play around now and see what I can come up with!Quote:
Originally Posted by Chuck
cheers,
Gav.
Make some mini replica headstocks with your logo so they can actually open a beer, and give em out to your mates. A bit of publicity and pretty cool. By the way I'll have one. Ha!Quote:
Originally Posted by Chuck
ahha cool idea JB, I'll have one too thanks Chuck (when you get time haha)
There's 2 orders so far. I can help make them under license. mmm beer
Great idea JB - extending my range of headstock uses beyond pencil holders!! And you'll naturally get one ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by JB RETRO
Did someone say beer? Really sweet job on the surf face box Chuck, i love the whole themed build. Though you have started something now; you are going to have to by a hard shell case and paint and upholster it to match!
Isn't that "build" a hardshell case, then train some silk worms to create the cloth to line it with!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by FrankenWashie
Case? Case? Surely you just strap it to your roof-rack, race down to the beach with it and away you go!
Thumbs up all round from me, guitar and pedal!
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Might be a stretch. The best silk comes from Chinese silkworms, you may have to learn Mandarin to train them, which would just make things incredibly difficult.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chuck
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Originally Posted by FrankenWashie
It's a sad state of affairs when you need to go back to page 5 of the builds to find your own one! Anyway, I'm finally on the home stretch with wet'n'drying (1200 then 2000)/polishing (Meguiers Ultimate Compound then Scratch-X) the body before assembly. In the meantime I've at least managed to have the wiring completed with the help of a mate.
With any luck I'll be done within a week!
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wiring looks good Chuck, so how is it setup ? is that a mini toggle switch ? Maybe a tone bleed circuit saw a small resistor.
What pups are they ?
Nah, that just goes to show how active this place is!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Chuck
Pickups are Entwistle AS57s, I'll see how they go.Quote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
The big switch is a Freeway Ultra. Positions 1, 2 and 3 are neck, both, bridge. Positions 4, 5 and 6 are series in-phase, series out-of-phase and parallel out-of-phase. The little toggle switch is a simple bright switch.
My understanding from the folks at Freeway is that master vol works in all switch positions as does master tone. Bridge volume works in position 3, or adjusts the mix of the bridge pickup in pos 2, 4, 5 and 6. That's the theory but I guess we'll see when I get it hooked up!!
I've just put everything on the proper pickguard and have tried to lay it in place but I'm going to have to expand the Freeway switch cavity - there's just too much wire to fit in the original space I had made! I don't have a lot of room to play with but hopefully I'll find a way. Might leave that to tomorrow morning with a clear head!
Too true - even I've been distracted on this one by my other builds!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zandit75
thanks for the explanation of the wiring Chuck. I bet its wire central from the freeway switch !
Be careful not to damage the finish on the body when you enlarge the cavity !
Yeah, good point. I've marked with a pencil just how far I can go, and I think I'll just go at it very slowly with the dremel to keep it as clean as possible. It's probably only a mil or two that it needs so not too bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
And we are pretty much done! Over the past couple of days I’ve polished up the body and put the whole thing together. In a nutshell, this build was motivated by the surfboard (kneeboard actually) that you see in the photos, and I’m pleased with the way it’s turned out. The build is based around a stock ST-1M kit with my normal bit of body re-shaping and a more surfy headstock shape. Instead of the normal pickups I ordered a neck and bridge Entwisle AS57 (more on that in a sec). The wiring was something of a challenge in that using a Freeway Ultra switch you end up with miles of wire to work out! What the Freeway provides is listed a couple of posts earlier.
And does it sound okay? Yes! My only issue is that in putting it all together I realised that the Entwisle neck pickup I received is incorrectly labelled – it’s actually a bridge. That means the pole spacing are out (should be 50mm for the neck but are 52mm like the bridge). Adam, in his always helpful way, is organising a replacement so that will need to be switched out when it arrives. There’s a little bit of hum too, so when I disassemble to do the pickup swap I’ll have a good look around to see what might be the cause.
Still, here she is (with her friend the "Surface" fuzz pedal built to complement her)!
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Oh, and in a nod to the kneeboard she's based on, the back of the headstock features a discreet Friar Tuck logo.
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Nice work Chuck!!
It's a pity the trem cover didn't have the pinstriping continue through it, but I'm guessing that would have been near impossible to do.
I thought about it at the very start but I wanted to stay true to the surfboard thing: they have grip pads over the top of them so the trem cover is a bit like that. It was a conscious decision rather than a "bugger, wish I'd thought of that earlier!" kind of thing!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zandit75
Well there's your solution, get some really thin surf board grip material, and put that over the trem cover!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Chuck
looks awesome Chuck, love the collection with the surfboard and FX pedal. Now you got to try get a photo of you surfing and holding the guitar hahaha
Can we please see a pic of the back without the trem cover Chuck ? the pattern may look more continuous.
Only one thing you need to do, remove the white stickers on the back of the tuners ! Or have you left them on intentionally ?
Very nice Chuck.
Looks great, Chuck.
They are single coils, so bound to pick up some hum. Might be worth (if it's not too late) if the middle pup is the same width as the neck one, to use one of those in the neck, as it will be RWRP so will hum cancel in the both pups on position. Middle and neck pups normally have the same DC resistance.
Also, I couldn't see any pictures to show that the body cavities had been shielded with copper tape. If you haven't done it, order a reel of the copper tape and it will make a difference. You've already got a foil shield under the pickguard, so you only need to do the cavities.
Just leave some bits of copper tape on the top surface of the body so that they make contact with the under-pickguard shield. This saves having to solder ground wire to the copper as the pickguard shield is connected to ground via the pot casings.
Here's one I did a few days ago on a friend's old guitar.
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Nice work Chuck
Great job Chuck
Cheers Simon. All the shielding is done as I have on previous builds but I will check when I do the neck pickup replacement that it's all as it should be. I'm sure I'll find something when I open it up though!Quote:
Originally Posted by Simon Barden
This guitar has turned out really nice and love the matching accessories!
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Worth getting a multimeter and checking the resistance of the foil all over. I did another Strat where on the underside of the pickguard, everything seemed to be overlapping but the resistance figure was going all over the place. So I just ran an extra single strip crosswise across the rest of the tape and that cured that.
Otherwise, just check all your ground connections first for good solder joints.
Hey Chuck, just caught up on the build, nice job, love the funboard and the surfcaster.....I can hear it now.....:cool: