Pictures!

[Dragonfly]

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P.S. That refrigerator amp is amazing !

[Zedmin_fx]

THAT IS FING SWEET DRAGONFLY.

[Dragonfly]

THAT IS FING SWEET DRAGONFLY.

Gracias !

[jakehop]

Andy, what is that thing!?

[Dragonfly]

Andy, what is that thing!?

Straight up Rangemaster - 

[jakehop]

Andy, what is that thing!?

Straight up Rangemaster - 

Cool stuff - what's the rig?

Jake

[bean]

Headbangers in leather! Let's all come together!

[Gila_Crisis]

rock'n'roll dragonfly!!!!

i just wondered once about building a rangemaster (but NPN and with a switch with different input cap values). maybe i'll think about it again

[royzic]

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Thats beautiful, you are an artist

I'm inspired




P.S. That refrigerator amp is amazing !

[composition4]

Okay I finally found my digital camera, which I've been meaning to do for a long time.  As well as taking better shots of my fridge amp as requested, I took the opportunity to take a pi of some other pedals I've made recently.


The red pedal is a Tremulus Lune tremolo.  Mustard coloured pedal is a Ross compressor.  The white and navy blue pedals with the red knobs are both Liquid Sunshines.  The dark dark blue one on the top right is a switching system I made (all hard-switched, no relays or active components).  It basically allows me to select one of three channels, and each channel can have a separate effects loop. I can also set it to switch the channel on my amp  to either clean or boost, for each individual channel.  I designed it because all of the other simple switchers I've seen require you to deselect one loop before selecting the next, otherwise both will be on at once.


The picture above is just a size comparison of the fridge amp I built against a Marshall head and my guitar and cab.


Amp half closed.  When I play it through the internal speaker with the lid fully closed, it gives an interesting tinny-but-muffled sound.  I guess the door acts as a tone control, in a way!


Close-up.


The back, I love the fake compressor lines on the fridge (came painted like that!).  The jack on the left is for an external speaker cab (automatically disengages the inbuilt speaker when plugged in).  The right jack is the input.

Sorry for such a long post!

Jonathan

[asfastasdark]

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P.S. That refrigerator amp is amazing !

The way you arranged these parts makes me wonder: Is that the perfboard with no copper traces around holes?

And also a question: Besides providing visual mojo, why do you use carbon comps and other vintage parts so much (as opposed to metal film and more modern stuff)?

[Dragonfly]

The way you arranged these parts makes me wonder: Is that the perfboard with no copper traces around holes?

And also a question: Besides providing visual mojo, why do you use carbon comps and other vintage parts so much (as opposed to metal film and more modern stuff)?

Its old, old perf - thick, heavy duty stuff - no copper traces at all. The holes are large enough to feed the wires through for strain relief, which i like a lot. I wish I had more of this stuff - I'm being pretty selective of what builds I use it on.

As for the parts - I won't go into the "mojo argument" - I'll simply say that using NOS parts like this gives me the result (both audible and visual) that I am looking for.

[yeeshkul]

That looks excellent! Dragonfly did you paint it? Also, i've been looking for battery clips like that one - where did you get it? They sell just plastic ones here and they are crap ...

[frokost]

I was bored one day, and jumped on the swirly bandwagon. I didn't think I liked swirls, but seeing how this first one turned out, I think I'll do it some more  .

It'll become an MXR Envelope Filter one day.

EDIT: composition, those look great! Simple and stylish.

[ACS]

Here's a few pics of a work in progress - a TS808 I'm building for a friend.  Particularly proud of this one so far, as it fired up first try

Have got a few good ideas for graphics - watch this space!!

(Full, high res version of this image can be found here if anyone wants a closer look - 1.7MB tho, for the bandwidth challenged...)

[deaconque]

One of the labels on the A/B switcher looks like it could be for a chain saw  (CHN SW)

Amp half closed.  When I play it through the internal speaker with the lid fully closed, it gives an interesting tinny-but-muffled sound.  I guess the door acts as a tone control, in a way!

what's the guitar in the background?  it's got an interesting paint job.

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[fluoreszenz]

what's the guitar in the background?  it's got an interesting paint job.

Ibanez Noodles NDM-1, Paint job = duck tape   

[solderman]

Hallo
Meet The little Red Rooster. Its a Tremolo in my miniseries built in to Hammond 1950A since boxes.







Earlier I have posted  Mr Mini Man, A booster with No, Si and MOSFET clipping.
Next is a Fuzz of some kind (haven't decided yet)
A digital delay
A Hi gain distortion built a round a couple of J201
A tree nob mild dist like TS808 Or maybe the OCD
If i can cram it in a chorus of some kind.


//Solderman
   

[Renegadrian]

Jonathan, thx so much for the pics you posted  after all this is the PICTURES! topic, and we also love to see lotsa pics of other works, don't we?! 

I really appreciated that - now I have to find a decent tin box myself, apart from candy box...

Solderman, you should try the slapshot, I read it is a one knob-TS-clone, so it should fit well...Or add a pot for the gain and have a two-knobber which is nothing new to you...

[Ben N]

Two comments/questions to Andy on his beautious Rangemaster:
1) I love the way the two resistors come together diagonally--very reminiscent of plate resistors in a Fender.
2) The perty blue film capacitor--did the leads come bent like that, or did you do that yourself, and if so, was the purpose to dissipate some soldering heat away from the cap? (I always put a little spring-loaded heat sink or alligator clip on cap leads on the component side before soldering, for that reason. It has the added benefit that if I have to desolder for some reason, there is a bit of lead to left to work with.)
Anyway, nice job as always.

Jonathon, the Fridge Amp is way cool. That door idea was part of the original Pignose--they called the door the "tone control."