Guitar Nerds Anonymous

That’s cute.

It sounds pretty good too! I reckon @ReekBlefs did a good job on it. If you're seriously considering doing the Vyse course and want to hear what it sounds like, let me know.

Glad it's still getting some use. I do love a little valve amp.

@Dooks-Fatberg I've got to say I really enjoyed the course - Vyse is a proper old school engineer and very much in the Fender tradition but he understands other amp building techniques too. I was hoping to make a mid size amp with a baxandale EQ and spring verb and he was well up for it. But it is amazing that a super simple 1w amp is about the same amount of work and effort as a 50w nerdfest. I wish I'd known that going in. There's nothing simple about making that simple 1watter!

Is that right? I heard from someone who seemed to know what they were talking about that adding reverb to a Champ basically doubled the amount of components involved. Surely, making a single ended, single channel amp with no reverb is a whole different kettle of fish to a multi-channel, multi-tube reverb monster?

Not saying making a champ is child's play - i'm sure i'm going to struggle - but it's got to be the entry level build right?

This looks FUN.

I fancy looking at getting into building some pedals, initially for my bass but then possibly getting my band mates involved in some stuff too and also for my no-input adventures. Reckon I'd start with a clone kit build first to see how that goes before venturing any furhter. Anyone know if there's any companies to look at more than others, or any that are best to avoid?

I bought a couple from Jed's peds a while back. I've not actually built them yet.. but they (along with the enclosures and knobs) look pretty decent quality and there's a spreadsheet on his site that lists all the pedals that his are clones of.

https://www.jedspeds.co.uk/

I think there's at least a couple on here that built them so they can probably comment on the finished pedal

Also check out pedalparts.co.uk

tagboardeffects.blogspot.com is a ridiculously good source of laid out schematics to build on stripboard, which is also a great and inexpensive way to make boards

I too have a series of Jeds Peds kits, none of which I have actually built. But I second the view that the stuff seems robust and good quality!

Great thanks all, hadn't actually come across Jeds Peds yet so will have a browse there.

I always thought this place held this accolade though:

We give free build guidance in our Facebook Group which is known to be the friendliest forum online.

I started to do one, but then the project escalated when I decided I first needed to build a powered, underlit, tolex / tweed / walnut pedalboard for them, without which there was no point in completing the pedals! I need to get back onto that soon...

I got as far as buying some magnetic crocodile clip arms...

I kind of really fancy one of these and putting a pair of the proper CuNiFe pickups in it… thinline with the blocks and binding just looks great IMHO.

https://www.andertons.co.uk/squier-fsr-classic-vibe-70s-telecaster-thinline-maple-fingerboard-olympic-white-0374073505

Talk me out of it?

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They’re doing a nice looking sherwood green thinline too.

https://www.andertons.co.uk/squier-fsr-classic-vibe-60s-telecaster-thinline-electric-guitar-sherwood-green-0374065546

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I'd be all over that if it had the ashtray-style bridge.

Now that looks ace.

Humbuckers isn’t it, normal for ‘bucker teles to have hardtail strat bridges. Although I have a Japanese Tele with a JM body and P90s and that has a cut-down ashtray bridge with three brass saddles.

Lovely bit of Tele content here at the moment...

I'm planning a Tele partcaster build at the moment.

Going to pick up a Squier CV 50s Telecaster (pine body is the win), refinish the body (milk paint) and swap the neck for an Allparts TRO-FAT neck, a set of Fender Yosemite Telecaster pickups I've got and get a Fender vintage Telecaster bridge with some Callaham enhanced vintage compensated saddles.

Should make a for a lovely and not too spendy Telecaster!

Sounds ace. I really like the Yosemite pickups.

Does sound tasty. Having rummaged around in the guts of a CV Jazzmaster and Mustang, I’d recommend also upgrading the pots, switch and wiring while you’re at it.

Yeah, I'll give it the full once over while I'm at it!

Lovin the thinline with the block inlays. Do it.

I'm still really having fun with my slide-o-caster and a brass slide.

I’ve realised the cunife humbucker set costs as much as the guitar, so…. maybe not. It just looks cool though and I don’t own anything with humbuckers.

If you're after something with humbuckers, I may be flogging my Yamaha Revstar R620 soon. Haven't fully committed to that course of action yet, but I'm barely touching it since I blew my tax rebate on a posh guitar in January.