#1 Replace ice cubes with frozen fruit for a new taste to discover #2 replace the base alcohol by one that’s similar.Like Havana Club by Cachaca, Scotch whiskey by Irish and so forth. Makes a handful boring cocktails into many new ones to discover #3 replace one citrus by another….
Guitars
Stripcaster HH – 1
Another low stress project! I’ve got an old Harley Benton with a maple neck and an alder with translucent finish body. The body finish is really cheap and uneven and I don’t like its color so going to strip it to bare wood that seems nice enough to let it…
Guitars
Harley Benton DC Jr – more mods
This was the previous mod. Of course I wanted more modifications, here they are 🙂 First, a blue neck on a red body was fun for a moment but at the end I stripped the blue paint off <to add the pic of the back> Then, I wanted to add…
Cocktails
Alt Barbie
Sweet and sugary! (I know, ANOTHER pink cocktail, but I like red bitters!)
Gardening
Replanting to outside
Time for the seedlings to see the real sun:
Cocktails
Pink Drink
More pretty drinks. Can’t remember what cocktail recipe I was basing it on. Kinda sorta Old Fashioned but for modern hipsters.
Cocktails
Out of ice cubes? Not a problem
Depending on how fast you drink it, there will be more or less cherry taste in it 🙂
Gardening
New year, new seedlings
Tomatoes, hot peppers, tomatillos
Guitars
Round guitar picks
Made myself some round picks for no other reason than curiosity 🙂 To be fair, also because I wanted to find a cure against the picks that are rotating between my fingers. Starting from a normal “teardrop” shaped pick, removing extra material with big scissors, than refining the shape on…
Audio
Bad Screamer: adding a mid-boost
All articles from the Bad Screamer series Thinking about this a little bit, there’s a way to act on the frequency response using a little more complex emitter negative feedback circuit. Did a bit of play with the sim and various values, I can create a mid bump this way…
Audio
Bad Screamer: soft clipping overdrive (with transistors)
All articles from the Bad Screamer series Working on a new circuit at this moment, it’s inspired by some existing guitar overdrive pedals. The main gain and overdrive stage is basically one slightly enhanced Proco RAT gain stage but with more potential gain and volume (instead of the RAT’s multiple…
Guitars
Green T
Another “partscaster”, this time a “thinline” (a semi-hollow body with an f-hole, very lightweight). The body is from the same ebay seller who sold me the Gold-o-Caster’s body. The neck is from G&L – some years ago they’ve been selling parts with huge discount that weren’t considered good enough for…
Guitars
New Guitar Day – Ibanez JSM-20
Just bragging this time, I obviously didn’t make it myself. My first hollowbody, also probably my most expensive guitar so far 🙂
Guitars
Gold-o-Caster
Gold-o-Caster series Nothing too complicated, this is what people call a “parts-caster” – an assembly of parts made by someone else. No real “lutherie” present here at all 🙂 The body first: got it from ebay. Good quality, double cream binding, and most importantly it’s sparkly GOLD. The sizes are…
Guitars
Harley Benton DC Jr – modifications
What do you do if you don’t like the color of a guitar you have? I don’t know about you (maybe you don’t buy it in the first place), but I refinish it just because I can 🙂 This is the guitar I’ve got with a big discount, it was…
Audio
Servicing Sony Walkman TCS-30D
I’ve got this one for cheap, sold as “working” but we all know how much does in mean when you buy from ebay 😂 It wasn’t working very well, couldn’t fast forward and played only some cassettes, others it couldn’t advance at right speed. As always, this is its rubber…
Audio
4. Dead Kings bass effects pedal – EQ finalized
Happy New Year everybody! I wish everyone lots of good things and happiness! After many tests and modifications, I should admit that I wasn’t happy with the 3 band EQ results – it either sounded wrong or was unstable at some EQ settings. Turned out making a single Baxandal EQ…
Guitars
Gretch Jim Dandy + pickup
Added a soundhole pickup into this guitar! It won’t be an “acoustic” anymore, but an “acoustic electric”! First two additional holes: one for a volume potentiometer (6 mm) and another for the endpin jack (12 mm): The pickup is a Gretch Deltoluxe – a very nice magnetic single coil designed…