One of the things that I love about this community is seeing other folks stuff. It's not only inspiring to see the stuff, but to actually own it makes it that much more personal. My stuff is my stuff but for some reason when someone else's work is involved it takes it to the next level. It's sort of like a sandwich tasting better when someone makes it for you.
I have 3 builds that are a real honor to own and here's one of them:
I'd commented on one of jjjimi84's artwork, involving a rabbit, that it made me miss an old pet. Nilla was the rabbit's name and although she's been gone for a long time now it's always insanely difficult to put a pet down at the end of their time.
I get a note saying "send me a picture and I'll paint you up an enclosure". It's overly generous but I'm certainly not going pass up this opportunity. I decide to put an Aion Naos (Yamaha OD-10MII) in the enclosure and off we go.
I just got this in the mail this afternoon and stuffed the guts into it and am thrilled to death:
(https://www.gordomusic.com/Madbean/Nilla01.jpg)
(https://www.gordomusic.com/Madbean/Nilla02.jpg)
Thanks again Dan!!
Wow great artwork by Dan and great stuff there Gordo. I'm very grateful for this little corner of the internet and I get a lot of inspiration from all of you here
Love it! And yes losing a pet is hard. Looks great and I love the one Dan made for me and I'm doing one for him. This is such a cool place and I love how we all help/encourage/inspire each other.
That's really fantastic and incredibly nice. I thought you were talking about a certain ruby red phaser with a blue LED..
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That's super, great collaboration! Our Holland lop will be nine this summer and in great health but she that's getting old for a rabbit.
Great work guys!
dave
It's glorious. Really nice.
The knob selection looks perfect, I am really happy how this turned out. Glad to be a part of it!
How does it sound?
That was yet another one. "Dorothy" has been out on the road for a while now with a buddy of mine and I suspect it will be a long time before I see her again. The fact that I don't have photos is very strange.
Such a nice story and a very good looking build!
Quote from: gordo on April 15, 2021, 12:47:47 AM
That was yet another one. "Dorothy" has been out on the road for a while now with a buddy of mine and I suspect it will be a long time before I see her again. The fact that I don't have photos is very strange.
Wow, I feel honored. It's a pretty solid build. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210415/aa95726bd09693a7776ed73d27413c55.jpg)
I was gonna include a gut shot, but there's enough wire in there to wire a second pedal.
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So cool! Really great looking and what a fab collaboration!
Quote from: jimilee on April 15, 2021, 01:57:21 AM
I was gonna include a gut shot, but there's enough wire in there to wire a second pedal.
Ha!! I'm glad you have a shot of it. I believe I'd offered to put a soft touch switch in it before it went out but he was scared he'd never get it back...
That is awesome! it does beg the question; what are the other 2?
I have a couple that I think are particularly cool. I went through a period where I tried to assemble a board with pedals from guys that post here, but I never got a chance to finish it. Long term project so hopefully I'll get back to it at some point. I've got Brian's Multiplex (its home on my main board is probably partially responsible for this not happening yet), a few pedals by Midwayfair, a tremolo Rej built, a rust bucket that Felix built, and a couple others. It's lacking some dirt, and I just realized if I'm going to do it right it has to have a phaser, anybody know somebody that is into phasers?
Very cool. 8) The personal touch is awesome. Dan's the man.
collabs are always fun. I'm still amazed by dminner's enclosure he did for our reverb project. Good times before he did the electronics himself ;)
very nice job of both of you!
Quote from: Bio77 on April 15, 2021, 07:53:55 PM
Very cool. 8) The personal touch is awesome. Dan's the man.
Too kind. Way too kind. I am all about painting for forum members, spreading the love around like peanut butter.
Quote from: Matmosphere on April 15, 2021, 02:11:09 PM
That is awesome! it does beg the question; what are the other 2?
I won't let the next one out of the bag till it's finished but am very stoked. One thing that they all have in common is that it's finishing techniques that I haven't explored or flat out suck at. With Jimi's I had no idea you could spray sparkle paints, let alone get it from Home Depot. I went thru an intense sparkle phase (no pun intended) after that and I'm sure my wife must have thought I was hanging out with strippers.
Hand painting is something I will never be good at and I'm willing to accept that.
This next one I bought in a package deal with the board and chips (Alan P, I think this is one of your boards) and an etched and painted enclosure done by Dminner. If you look at the name of the pedal you can see that it has a typo. In my mind that makes it even more valuable. It's a clone of the ?Flanger.
(https://www.gordomusic.com/Madbean/PA.jpg)
It took me forever to finish this one as it was sufficiently difficult and a single sided etch with ALL offboard wiring. I dragged my heels for years. I think I justified that if it wasn't finished then technically it wasn't a fail. To my surprise it fired right up. I calibrated it and will never open it again. I'd posted this before but I think back then it looked like I'd found the knobs at a garage sale. This does it up with proper knobs.
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Quote from: Bio77 on April 15, 2021, 07:53:55 PM
Very cool. 8) The personal touch is awesome. Dan's the man.
Too kind. Way too kind. I am all about painting for forum members, spreading the love around like peanut butter.
Sweet. I will have to commission something before you get famous and I can't afford it. I see you're all about some 80s (early 90s) video games. Is that style kind of your thing? I gotta think of something that is fitting.
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Quote from: jjjimi84 on April 15, 2021, 10:55:25 PM
Quote from: Bio77 on April 15, 2021, 07:53:55 PM
Very cool. 8) The personal touch is awesome. Dan's the man.
Too kind. Way too kind. I am all about painting for forum members, spreading the love around like peanut butter.
Sweet. I will have to commission something before you get famous and I can't afford it. I see you're all about some 80s (early 90s) video games. Is that style kind of your thing? I gotta think of something that is fitting.
Get famous?!? I think fame is for tweens not middle aged dad rockers. I will paint anything, My som and I just like monsters and nintendo so thats what ends up on a lot of pedals.
Great pedal and better story!!
Slightly related to the Plantetary Aligner (and I'm hijacking my own thread here) is a guitar given to me by a gentleman by the name of Charlie Subecz. Charlie was, at the time the president of Harmony Guitars before it's current inception. This was a prototype based on a Gretsch Cats Eye and when I got it the only thing on it was the tuners and nut. It had been drilled out for everything but never completed. I was pretty thrilled to say the least and proceeded to finish it up with a real Bigsby and pickups and parts from GFS and Stew-Mac. It plays and sounds wonderful although just the sheer size makes it similar to playing a sheet of plywood, and since the neck joins the body at the 14th fret you need hands like Bootsy Collins to get much over a high A.
(https://www.gordomusic.com/Madbean/Hamony05.jpg)
It's a full hollow, with the exception of a block under the bridge. Being a pinned bridge the tuning is fairly stable. Bigsby's are a learning curve of their own.
(https://www.gordomusic.com/Madbean/Hamony04.jpg)
Now here's the funny part (and what makes it super special for me)...check out the spelling on the peghead. I'm thinking something got lost in the translation from English to Chinese and back again.
(https://www.gordomusic.com/Madbean/Hamony03.jpg)
Too much fun.
That looks great. Those tuners are neat. Hammony, no Rs in the alphabet?
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Quote from: gordo on April 16, 2021, 09:05:50 PM
Slightly related to the Plantetary Aligner (and I'm hijacking my own thread here) is a guitar given to me by a gentleman by the name of Charlie Subecz. Charlie was, at the time the president of Harmony Guitars before it's current inception. This was a prototype based on a Gretsch Cats Eye and when I got it the only thing on it was the tuners and nut. It had been drilled out for everything but never completed. I was pretty thrilled to say the least and proceeded to finish it up with a real Bigsby and pickups and parts from GFS and Stew-Mac. It plays and sounds wonderful although just the sheer size makes it similar to playing a sheet of plywood, and since the neck joins the body at the 14th fret you need hands like Bootsy Collins to get much over a high A.
(https://www.gordomusic.com/Madbean/Hamony05.jpg)
It's a full hollow, with the exception of a block under the bridge. Being a pinned bridge the tuning is fairly stable. Bigsby's are a learning curve of their own.
(https://www.gordomusic.com/Madbean/Hamony04.jpg)
Now here's the funny part (and what makes it super special for me)...check out the spelling on the peghead. I'm thinking something got lost in the translation from English to Chinese and back again.
(https://www.gordomusic.com/Madbean/Hamony03.jpg)
Too much fun.
Haha, love it! Harmony has always been a pretty cool company, and I like that better than any Cat's Eye Gretsch I've seen, they are really nice guitars but that Hamony is a looker.