Projects

March 2015 UPDATE

• Added Quest M3 TC4 Installation, DRZ/Trail Tech mounting plate, DRZ throttle tube, dumbbell rack/weight stand

Guitars:

• Short scale bass prototype
  • 30" scale bass intended for pickup and string gauge testing.

• Esquire-style art guitar
  • Classic-style guitar with an artistic paint job.

• Multiscale Jazz-style bass [in progress]
  • Multiscale (i.e. "fanned fret") 3-pickup jazz-style bass.

• Multiscale bass prototype
  • Testbed for multiscale and 3-pickup bass ideas.

• Octave guitar
  • 2/3-scale guitar tuned an octave above standard.

• Tonemaster
  • Semi-hollow guitar with a Telecaster and Jazzmaster influences.

• Variax transplant
  • Line 6 Variax electronics in a custom guitar body.

• Yamaha replacement neck
  • Mahogany/ebony replacement neck for my Yamaha Pacifica

• Seven-string conversion
  • Converted a 6-string body to accept a 7-string neck and pickups and a hardtail bridge.

• Mahogany RG-style body
  • One-piece African mahogany Ibanez RG-style body.

• Miscellaneous guitar projects
  • A handful of guitar projects too small to have their own pages.

Speakers:

• fEARful 15/6 bass cabinet
  • Lightweight (for its size) bass cabinet with 15" and 6" drivers and an integrated 4-space rack.

• Nearfield monitors
  • Using drivers reclaimed from the cinderblock monitors, and based on a design by John "Zaph" Krutke.

• Cinderblock monitors
  • Small full-range speaker using the popular Tang-Band W3-871S drivers and a novel, if heavy, construction technique.

• Eros loudspeakers
  • Audiophile-level speaker using high quality drivers from Vifa/Scan-Speak.

• 4x12 guitar cabinet
  • Open-back guitar cabinet using Celestion Silver Series drivers.

Other woodworking:

• Mahogany bed
  • Queen-size bed in mahogany.

• Mahogany Side Table
  • Small side table.

• Workbench
  • Sturdy workbench with drawers.

• Dumbbell rack/weight stand
  • Simple/cheap weight rack made from 2x4's.

• Wine bottle stands
  • These stands balance a wine bottle at about 45 degrees. Fun and easy to build.

• Cutting boards
  • Pictures of a few cutting boards I've made.

Rapid prototyping and laser cutting:

• Quick turn throttle tube for Suzuki DRZ
  • 3D-printed throttle tube for Suzuki DR-Z400.

• Trail Tech Vapor mount for Suzuki DRZ
  • Mounting plate for the TT Vapor speedometer for Suzuki DR-Z400 S/SM models.

• Chute for Compak K10
  • 3D-printed chute for the Compak K10 espresso grinder.

• Cat logo
  • Replacement Honda logo.

Guitar pedals:

• Pedalboard
  • Wedge-style pedalboard.

• Crybaby sweep range mod revisited
  • More mods to the Dunlop Crybaby.

• Crybaby sweep range mod
  • Mod to change the sweep range on a Crybaby

• 2:1 mixer, version 2
  • Improved 2:1 mixer.

• 2:1 mixer
  • 2-in, 1-out mixer for line level signals.

• Boost pedal
  • Clone of the MXR Microamp.

• Channel/FX loop selector for Fender amps
  • Channel switch for Fender amps that adds independent effects loops for each channel.

• Switch boxes, splitters, and passthrough
  • A few simple boxes to handle switching and routing.

Other electronics:

• Arcade style joysticks, version 2
  • Switched to optical joysticks and rebuilt the cabinets with better quality plywood.

• Arcade style joysticks
  • A pair of 10-button joysticks for use with the MAME arcade emulator. USB and plug-and-play.

• Headphone amplifiers
  • Two simple LM386-based headphone amplifiers.

• My electronics workbench
  • Not a project per se, but this is where I do all of my electronics work.

Coffee:

• Quest M3 TC4 install
  • Installing a temperature logger/controller on my Quest M3 coffee roaster.

• Hario siphon stand
  • Stand for the 2-cup Hario siphon brewer.

• Motorized HG one
  • How I motorized my HG one grinder.

• PID Temperature Controller
  • PID-based temperature controller suitable for mains-powered devices.

• Gaggia Classic rework
  • Refinishing and PID installation on my Gaggia Classic espresso machine.

• Gaggia MDF stepless conversion
  • Conversion to stepless grind adjustment.

Python:

• Jason's Quick Search Launcher
  • A small Python app intended as a cross-platform replacement for Dave's Quick Search Deskbar. DQSD was one of the Windows-only apps I missed the most when I began using Linux heavily. I couldn't find a Linux replacement that worked the way I wanted, so I wrote JQSL.

• Miscellaneous Scripts
  • A small (but growing) collection of Python scripts.