Thread: Andrews Projects (bass + guitar/s)

i forgot .....................
strings!!

lol
and i cant afford them

LMAO!!!!
and here i was being jealous of your organisation and you forgot strings. thats the most important part!!!

The price of bass strings is why i started playing guitar!!!

lol yea...
i was looking at them online and they were around 45bux,,,,

yea and thats for a bottom line set. the last time i bought them, my bass had sat without strings for about 18months. i paid $60 for the set, snapped the fat e string cos the neck was so bowed, then had to pay $60 for another set just to get the top string.

$120 for bass strings...I was not happy lol

Struth ... I'm starting to wonder if I want to build a bass after all?!?!

HAHAHA!! Dont let me scare you. That was my incompetence!! I dont know if you can still get them but I used to buy MDA brand strings from my local for $30

They were just music direct australia. I used them for 2 or 3 years and only ever snapped two strings and I gave them a hiding

i was looking at ernie ball (since i use them on my electrics)

Cant beat Ernie Ball. I use them on all my electrics and the earthwood series on the acoustics.

How did you go today? Get much work done

how do the acoustic strings go man?

iv always used martins on my acoustics
never tried the earnie balls,

i was baby sitting today,
i did go to the wire place in kingsgrove,
after talking to a lovely old lady at the front desk for a while we decided on what i wanted and she had someone go fetch it for me lol....
he came back and said there was no 42gauge,
so she sent him back out to get 43 lol
at that time the girlfriend walked in with the baby sweating like crazy... so i have to hurry up and i lost my train of thought lol,
and ended up just grabbing a spool of 43awg for 70bux or so....

then i went to mitre 10 around the corner to look for some blank black plastic sheet about 2mm thick, but i couldnt find any

they offered me a triton extension table for 60bux... but i had no more cash lol

i ended up buying two shower door runners, two steel tent pegs, a 3 piece countersink bit set, and something else....

and now i have to figure out how to build a decent pickup winder

that was my day pretty much....
and now i gottta go to a family thingy ,
and tomorrow is my aunty;s wedding

LOL dont ya hate family things. I usually avoid them now lol. I can say im 23 and never been to a wedding. My first will be my own next year lol.

Cant wait to see how you go with the pick up winding. Im gonna have a read on it this weekend. Might have a go somewhere down the track

lol yep this will be my first wedding as far as i know/remember

your getting married next year?!?!?! hahaha congrats

lol yea i cant wait to see how i go with it too....
will either be fun and work out, or it will be crappy and i will have to go pester mickb untill he gives me some tips

hmm i wonder if i can convert a fan into a winder


i have the martin koch book and it goes into pickups a fair bit, just havnt read through it all yet, will do that tomorrow and the next day and the next day lol

I cant get a f&^%$ng pic to save here so ill just put a link to them. https://www.woodworkforums.com/album....pictureid=1918 These are the coils Ive made so far.
The 2 redgum coils have 8000 winds each and read about 6.5K The triple Maple coils have 24000 winds and reads 15K. I have to make a matching standard humbucker now for the Maple triple coil/s.
C'mon Andrew ya big gurlie man,, you got wire, get to making some coils

post them over

Originally Posted by Andrew_B

hmm i wonder if i can convert a fan into a winder

Or a sewing machine bobbin winder?

The real question though is how you count the number of winds. Or can you just measure the resistance at various intervals until its at the level you want??