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EGR’s Great Tele Relic Experiment: And So The Work Begins…
Welcome To EGR Labs OK, so here’s a little look behind the scenes at EGR Labs (aka, my spare room.) Obviously, the Baja Tele we purchased has been taken apart, with great care given to photographing the wiring (it’s an S1 system) since we don’t want to run into difficulties putting it back together. All [...]
Continue reading...EGR’s Great “Tele Relic” Experiment: Our Guinea Pig Arrives
2. May 2008
So, our guinea pig guitar in the so-called “Great Tele Relic Experiment of 2008” has finally arrived, and this afternoon I managed to get in some decent BEFORE pictures… in the interest of fully documenting this project I am posting them here for all to see. I’m happy to say that this guitar plays beautifully, [...]
Continue reading...Chop Shop: And So Begins EGR’s Great “Tele Relic” Experiment Of 2008
24. April 2008
Exhibit A The photo to the left is the gorgeous Custom Vintage Humbucker Telecaster Heavy Relic in Vintage Blonde, which has been taunting me from Music Zoo’s website for nearly a year. I say “taunting” because there’s no way in hell I would personally pay Fender over $3,000 just to pre-age a guitar for me… [...]
Continue reading...Chop Shop: Building The BYOC Optical Compressor
21. March 2008
Wow… I had originally planned on writing a whole series of posts on my experience building the BYOC OptiComp Optical Compressor –– but the build had so few parts, and was so easy to put together that I think I can cover it all on one shot. Total build time for me was about three [...]
Continue reading...Building The BYOC TriBooster: Part 4 – Finishing It Up
27. August 2007
OK, so at this point all of the various parts and pieces have pretty much been installed into our BYOC Tri-Booster, short of two things––the vast majority of the wiring, and of course the star of the show, our Germanium transistor. Clip, Solder, And Repeat Probably the single most annoying step in this whole build [...]
Continue reading...Building The BYOC TriBooster: Part Three – Fillin’ Up the Chassis
22. August 2007
Well, with Part 2 out of the way it’s time to finish populating the circuit board on our BYOC Tri Booster, and then get to filling up that chassis. Installing The Transistors & Capacitors If you check out Step 7 in the official PDF instructions you’ll see that our next move is to install two [...]
Continue reading...Building The BYOC TriBooster: Part Two – Populating the Circuit Board
13. August 2007
OK, so we’ve got all of our parts, pieces and tools laid out, and we’re ready to actually start building the BYOC Tri Booster. Populating the circuit board is easily the most time-consuming part of this whole project, so while I think you’ll enjoy the process––don’t expect it to be quick work. This section of [...]
Continue reading...Building The BYOC TriBooster: Step One – Get Your Stuff Together
10. August 2007
OK, so we’ve got our TriBooster Kit from the good folks at Build Your Own Clone, and I’m happy to say they threw in a few extras as well (who doesn’t like extras?) Yeah, it’s cheapy promo stuff, but still fun: two guitar picks with the BYOC “Cloned” Sheep logo printed on them, and a [...]
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7. May 2008
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