Sock Puppet

I’m looking for a gold flush mount ¼” jack. I can find them in chrome, nickel and black but not gold. Can anyone help?

Don't know where you are,

Anything here any good?

http://www.axesrus.com/axehardware.htm

S.

Looking at the parts list:

http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/pdf/ggg_its8_bom.pdf

D5 is shown as a 1N914.

I wouldn't have thought it had enough current capability to provide adequate protection against reverse supply - it seems that it's designed to go short circuit in this instance.

I would plumb for a 1N4007 in there (always handy to have around) but use it if you wish, or leave it out until you get one - can't remember the last time I had a power supply connected the wrong way.

S.

It's common to use something like a 1N4001/2/3/4/5/6/7 in that position - does the kit come with one of these?

S.

Dave, when I shout "Duck!" just put your head down...

S.

Ok, I'm done with this thread

Well I'm glad that's over.

S.

I'm up to the challenge.

That's the spirit.

Having said that it might be that you could build a less ambitious amp and find the tone you want there... then work out how to record it and patch it through a great big slave....

What music has impressed you with sounds you like?

S.

60 would be ideal if some one could draw that into something i can read, like rubber314 did.

thanks,

Adam

Couldn't see a way to post pictures here, so I stuck it on Rapidshare:

http://rapidshare.com/files/58174257/hsh60.jpg.html

HTH,

S.

Maybe you've seen these p90 kits:

http://www.thomann.de/gb/goeldo_puk90_pick...artner_id=25293

Not particularly cheap though.

S.

There's nothing to stop you flipping the wires and the magnet on one of them.

S.

Additionaly what would the switch positions be , what pickups would be active at each position?

thanks,

Adam

Unfortunately that won't work, try here:

http://www.geocities.jp/dgb_studio/hshvari_e.htm

HSH41, 61 AND 60.

2 pole 5 way switch.

S.

That page is in finnish so I can't find out how to order from them. If the wire is thinner shouldn't I be able to get more turns rather than less turns around the bobbin?

Yes of course. Sorry, my brain's turning to mush.

When I ordered I just sent an email to tilaukset(at)spelektroniikka.fi and asked for a total price, the folks there were very helpful & speak good English.

S.

The .05mm wire will work but you'll only be able to get around 2/3 of the number of turns compared to .063mm for a given bobbin size making for a low output.

There's a finnish company http://www.spelektroniikka.fi/ that supplies the .063 (go to catalogue 06>gp17.pdf), I know it's outside Sweden but it doesn't look far on Google Earth

S.

Hi, sorry to butt in.

Here's an ancient pickup patent - the strings are first magnetised by connecting the pickup to a battery:

http://www.google.com/patents?id=QoMWAAAAE...strings#PPP2,M1

If you make a pickup with iron slugs and no magnet, it will work (though a little weak) if you first magnetise the strings with a permanent magnet.

Magnets. Very strange.

S.

Well hell, I thought I'd found a nice site about woods there.

Suppose I saw it written down amongst useful info and was gullible enough to believe it...

As an aside, gullible isn't in any printed english dictionary!

S.

You might be interested in this quote, stolen from here:

http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~dace/...VWoods.FAQ.html

There are roughly a dozen species of true rose woods in the world. (Yes, they smell like roses when cut with a saw.) A partial list would include Tulip wood, King wood, Cocobolo, East Indian Rose wood, and Brazilian Rose wood. With the exception of the latter, these are oily to the point of being dead in the tone department. So what is the point in coveting these materials when there are sonic superiors available? The problem is that in the public mind, rose wood is cool, so it has long been over harvested. Because of this Brazilian Rose wood has been banned from importation to the United States for over twenty five years. (Linc Hoke)

HTH

S.

Why make the cut at an angle with the table saw?

If the saw blade is tilted then couldn't the block be cut more accurately in the same manner as that of the safe-t-planer...

I had trouble visualising this so I tried tilting a cd and then a dinner plate inside a barrel and it does indeed look like it would work well.

Now to find a barrel of the correct diameter - the maths are beyond this rusty brain.

S.

Strats have three pickups, and two tone controls. How does that work?!

http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/stockstrat.php

It works well btw

S.

Looks O.K. to me...

There are alternatives (too many) here:

http://www.geocities.jp/dgb_studio/hsvari_e.htm

You might want to try the combinations by bringing the wires outside the guitar and twisting them together before doing your final wiring, i.e. you may find that the humbucker coils in parallel has too low an output to be useful.

YMMV

S.