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chris jury wrote:Not music related, but I am quite proud of the job my wife and i did on our bathroom remodel. Excellent work. I like the tile work in the shower in particular.

Dudley wrote:Sounds ace. Presumably you're expected to already have a certain skill level with woodwork?No skills required. I think if you did have experience/skills the tutors would be pretty happy. But they don t expect you to know anything. The tutors I ve met so far just seem to be stoked to be teaching the course and introducing people to their craft. If that means teaching you basic stuff they don t mind.My only experience with wood was working for a carpenter on a building site years ago. I can use a hammer and a saw. I ve never done any proper detailed work before.

B\_M\_L wrote:It s only an evening course at London Met. They do a full time degree course as well “ so it s with a few of the tutors from that. It s 15 weeks, 2 hours a week and costs 250 + materials so not outrageous at all. And you can do the materials pretty cheap. You can also use their tools if, like me, you don't have them or can't afford afford them straight away. I think you d get more out of it if you had space to work at home in addition to the weekly course time. I don t at the moment, so I'll have to get as much done there as possible.I ve only done the intro evening, discussion of what we want to make and a quick whizz through sharpening your tools and the importance doing it.Sounds ace. Presumably you're expected to already have a certain skill level with woodwork?A friend of mine is a year into an upholstery course at the Met and is loving it.

I am having a problem with the DC power jacks for my pedal builds. I bought the metal kind that look to be better quality than the plastic kind from pedal parts plus. The problem is, they short to ground because of the aluminum pedal case. The jack housing is conducting the positive from the power directly to ground. Lame. I can't seem to see how these could ever work with a metal case pedal but I have seen similar jacks used before. Have any of you ever had this problem? How did you solve it?

n-eight wrote:I've got a TG12413 I'm starting this weekend.Finally got my EMI TG12413 compressor finished today. UTC H-13 trannys on the input, Nishaminy AF-672 on the outputs (UTC A-20 clones). OPA134 opamps on the bypass boards. NOS output transistors and OA202 diodes. The meters had to be disassembled to replace the scale. I was going to repaint them black, but when I stripped off the old finish with steel wool and mineral spirits, I liked the look so much that I left them in that "worn" state. The front panel is Dark Bronze Hammered that I had laser engraved. Then I put a coat of car wax on it and buffed it to a shine.It's hard to tell in the third photo, but underneath those PCBs is another set of identical PCBs for the second channel.

n-eight wrote:WOW!

japmn wrote:I am having a problem with the DC power jacks for my pedal builds. I bought the metal kind that look to be better quality than the plastic kind from pedal parts plus. The problem is, they short to ground because of the aluminum pedal case. The jack housing is conducting the positive from the power directly to ground. Lame. I can't seem to see how these could ever work with a metal case pedal but I have seen similar jacks used before. Have any of you ever had this problem? How did you solve it? this is exactly why no one uses the metal jacks. If you must use them, you'll need to make some kind of non- conductive washers. You need to isolate the metal bits.

n-eight wrote:Finally got my EMI TG12413 compressor finished today. It's hard to tell in the third photo, but underneath those PCBs is another set of identical PCBs for the second channel.Looks complicated... couldn't you just use a plug-in?

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Well, the basement is fully cleaned so it's time to start planning a basement practice space. I think I'll have a pro bug and pest guy come over just because I'm paranoid. Only problem with the space is - I'm 6' tall. If I were 5' 8 I'd be fine. So I guess another project is to saw my legs off at the knees.