Ooo, there is a lathe on my kitchen counter. I have been looking forward to this day for a long time.
A Craftsman 109 with a handful of accessories. I’m tentatively looking forward to making things round with it.
After living with my parents for so painfully long, I became rather accustomed to having my own basement shop. And really, it was quite swanky. Two workbenches, my drill press, and piles of reclaimed crap.
By this point, most DIY synth enthusiasts have built one of Ray Wilson’s Weird Sound Generators. Just in case you have been living under a rock:
(I built my first WSG 6 years ago now. On perfboard. Does that make me a nerd bad ass?)
Anyway, my friend Pat approached me to build him one, from the kit. And I obliged.
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A few people asked about the type of switch I used, so here’s the scoop:
http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/PB-142/MOMENTARY-PUSHBUTTON-SPST-N.O.-4-AMP/-/1.html
$2.75 each, and they fit just fine.
I bought my DL4 from a friend a few years ago for $75. The previous previous owner had spray painted it black. Switch C never worked right. It worked well enough, and I used it live for well over a year.
Here it is, on the desk o’ effects. Note the craptacular paint job.
I figured it was the switch itself that was buggered. Line 6 doesn’t use an actual momentary stomp switch. The switch on the modeler pedals is just a metal poker that activates a tactile switch. Super chincy.
