Sonics 4th Build - YB-4 - The Steampunker Bass

[Sonic Mountain]

Yep they are just pilot holes atm that I’ll use to drill the holes in the body before enlarging.

[Sonic Mountain]

Hah hah. Feel like this one is a curse on me. I will not be offering carved brass as a feature on future guitars!

[Sonic Mountain]

Well this has been sitting idle for a while. I'm trying to work up the motivation to get back into it, but time has been a bit of a precious resource lately. I did have something interesting arrive today. We had the grandparents up a fortnight ago for the young fellas rugby rep trials and my Dad and I were talking about this project.

I mentioned I was on the lookout for old broken clocks to steal gears and brass doodads out of. Turns out he had the old mechanism from his fathers clock from the turn of last century. The clock has a modern movement in it now and this was just sitting around in his shed. So I think I'm right for gears etc now. Interestingly when I took it out of the box it started running for a minute or so, which was pretty cool.

[nitroburner1000]

Well this has been sitting idle for a while. I'm trying to work up the motivation to get back into it, but time has been a bit of a precious resource lately. I did have something interesting arrive today. We had the grandparents up a fortnight ago for the young fellas rugby rep trials and my Dad and I were talking about this project.

I mentioned I was on the lookout for old broken clocks to steal gears and brass doodads out of. Turns out he had the old mechanism from his fathers clock from the turn of last century. The clock has a modern movement in it now and this was just sitting around in his shed. So I think I'm right for gears etc now. Interestingly when I took it out of the box it started running for a minute or so, which was pretty cool.

Wow if you can fit some of that it will be the icing on the cake

[Sonic Mountain]

Plan is to use the gears to move the controls around a bit. So turning the knob, will turn a gear which will turn the pot.

That's the idea anyway.

[Sonic Mountain]

I am not a smart man. Decided to take it apart. Let's just say the springs have a serious amount of stored energy. Glad I wear glasses as it pretty much exploded in my hand and went all over the workshop, hitting me in the face and hand.

Think I've found most of the bits. And here is me ready to take careful notes on which gear went with which. Dear me, was pretty funny after I stopped bleeding.

[pablopepper]

Yowsa! Nothing like a little adrenaline to really let you know you've made a mistake.

[king casey]

Ouch! Nice little divot on the ol' thumb there.
One small mercy...you had a shot of it whilst still in one piece.
Not like the old days.

cheers, Mark.

[FrankenWashie]

Oh mercy..I think i learned that lesson in a similar fashion when I was about nine dismantling a dead wind up alarm clock. Thankfully a much smaller movement but it still had a fairly energetic spring. Take care of yourself mate.

[Sonic Mountain]

Yeah, pretty dumb really, I should know better, fortunately I got away with a couple of cuts and a scratch on my glasses.

Anyway, good news is it's easy enough to find matching drives - for what I'm doing the ratio isn't super important. Fair bit of fiddling and working out required now, but I think it's going to work. If nothing else I've got lots of decorative stuff to work with now, but I'd like to have some gear meshing going on.