Concept Sketch – Modified ARRL logo, AX47, and tentacles!
49.25″ center to center
1′ carved detail
Guitar Strap Detail
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Jazzcaster body by Warmoth
Wow! I’ve been really into this idea since I saw a custom guitar in a makin music add about a year ago. Warmoth has obviously been getting few requests.
After a little brainstorming I think I would opt for a swamp ash body, an existing birds eye maple neck, black pick guard and a natural finish.
DIY Seltzer Water
I’ve been drinking allot of seltzer recently and started looking at home-brew option on instructables.com
In the process I found a beverage distributor that sells a kit ready to go. Homebrew drops the price from $2 to about 4 cents per 2 liter bottle.
http://stores.kegconnection.com/Detail.bok?no=245
Geer Gas – 20lb CO2 $105, $14 to fill.
829 Ingleside Avenue, Columbus, OH 43215
great article of carbonation – http://www.truetex.com/carbonation.htm
Robotics Supply Links
Ten Tec 1253 – FIN
If you were listening to radio in the 1920s you were probably using a regenerative receiver or “gennie”. The simple design made construction relatively easy and they could receive radio signals from all over the world. The superheterodyne receiver quickly became king in the 1930s but gennies have lived on as kits and diy projects. I understand why, there’s something amazing about tuning in a station with this radio. You can “hear” how the radio theory works as you tune in and jump onto a carrier frequency and listen the transmission that rides along.
The instruction manual is well written and pointed out the snags you find in a set of plans once you’ve coached a few people through the build. There were a few checkpoints to test the project along the way, the tests gave me confidence in the work I was doing.
Ten Tec 1253 Construction
Tec Ten 1253 SW receiver parts sort
I’m impressed! The instruction manual seems excellent, a lot of attention to detail.
I settled into part sorting and labeling, I like to use index cards and a cigar box to keep everything organized. I usually use a meter to sort resistors, the color bands are very hard to read. The inductors were a little tricky. I’m hoping to have the kit together before I go back to school in January.
Ten Tec 1253 Kit
UPS dropped off another cool project. I spent a couple of hours on Friday sorting components, checking values, and taping them to index cards.
Suguru!
http://sugru.com/us
