Pickin’ and Grinnin’

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Where did you find such a prehistoric artifact?

I had no idea this ancient relic existed. Should be in a museum :)
Clovis Antiques. On Polasky St.

There are 6 antique and 2nd-hand shops within 3 miles or so. There are lots of old tube equipment for sale.

Check out radiomuseum.org for some fun.
 
As it turns out this little amplifier is better than I thought.

First off, I had two of the speakers phased backwards, and when I fixed that it definitely made a difference.

The other thing is, one of the pickups on the Schechter wasn’t working because of a balky switch. I put some deoxit in the switch and played with it a while.

When it started working that nearly doubled my output to the amplifier.

It went from a quiet mouse to a real squawker.

This amplifier was running four tiny speakers, the largest pair was about the same size as the 1961 Zenith tweeter.
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That was the “woofer” LOL…
 
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She has grilles and cloth, Canvas and badges, and paint.

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But the leather is going on now.
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That’s white South Asian water Buffalo hide, dyed black and sewn into a Pakistani motorcycle jacket. (Sold by Bikers Dream Inc.) It used to fit me when I was 70 pounds heavier than I am now.

Those were the sleeves, and the tu-tone effect is due to the fact that we have pebbled back leather stitched to wrinkly belly leather, giving a very nice effect.
 
I have almost finished this guitar I customized. This was a $20 wreck of an Ephiphone Les Paul Special. The head was smacked up, tuner missing.
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Wax oozed from the pickups.
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Inch-thick poly covers the Gibson-shaped plywood body. I left the edges alone as they were good enough and, it’s plywood.

After leveling & painting
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Filing the fret crowns and ends, after leveling the frets on a beam.
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The baby Strat I bought for my granddaughter. It looks so cute next to the bass.
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The Newcomb phonograph, from Hollywood USA.

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Inside is this awful speaker and this sweet little 5 watt class A tube amp.

It had been sloppily repaired, and I removed that messy can & pink wires, then cleaned up the modernized guts.

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Here it is all cleaned up. (Back view)

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I moved the power cord to the back, cleaned up the internal wiring & added a guitar jack & a red jewel for the pilot.

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Here I build the cabinet from the Newcomb grill and an old sample of aluminum windowsill.

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The ends were cut from a bargain store cutting board.

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Here it is with the recovered Zenith radio speaker cabinet.

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