Do Your Own Repairs?

kayla · Post by **kayla** » Thursday Apr 12, 2012

So how many rockpagers do their own repairs/builds? Whether its guitar/bass/pedals/drums/amps etc etc. what kind of repairs are you familiar with?

When i started i could barely string my own guitar. But after years of trial and error and asking a million questions, i can do pretty well. Currently im pretty good at rewiring and installing pick ups. I can set up a strat pretty quickly. Set my intonation for different gauge strings and setting the action to different preferences. I'd like to get more familiar with other style guitars though.

I know how to handwire and build my own pedals. Thanks to Barry Steindel. And i can do my own painting, my dad taught me how to paint years ago.

I want to get into building small wattage tube amps at some point. its just a pricey hobby.

anyone else? what kinda stuff can you repair/build? post pics of stuff if you want.

- kayla.

kayla · Post by **kayla** » Friday Apr 13, 2012

really, no one?

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Friday Apr 13, 2012

I do most of my own repairs except for broken guitar necks. Lights, PA, guitars & amps and just about anything that you can get parts for.

I also do amp/preamp mods and if you go on the ADA site, my version of the SS mod is the most popular MP1 mod. I also made stuff like a 4 channel MIDI amp switcher and some other accessory type stuff.

When I can't fix something, I usually go to Ken Oyler at Ford Music.

Geetarzz · Post by **Geetarzz** » Saturday Apr 14, 2012

I do everything that I can to guitars. I've never done anything with amps or pedals. If I ever run into anything that I can't handle I take it up to Terry at Guitars n Stuff. He sure can work some magic on guitars! Especially one's with Floyd's. Building a low wattage tube amp sounds like it would be a really cool project. Look around on ebay to find parts. There's always somebody out there that got the stuff, and either doesn't have the time, money , or patience to finish the project and dumps the parts just to try to get some of their money back. Always search in the newly listed items. Because the good deals never last to the end of the auction.

Jasaoke · Post by **Jasaoke** » Sunday Apr 15, 2012

Does "Back In the Day" count?

Back in 2000 I wired this:

http://www.recordplant.com/ssl3.html

It's a 5.1 room.
And this:

http://www.recordplant.com/ssl2.html

I was a tech/engineer @ Record Plant and did tons of repair and maintenance work, too.
Then I went to Track Record and built this:

http://www.trackrecordstudios.com/galle ... ontrol.htm

back in the day...

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Sunday Apr 15, 2012

back in the day, I designed this thing's telemetry A/D converter circuit. Does that count?

Jasaoke · Post by **Jasaoke** » Sunday Apr 15, 2012

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Sunday Apr 15, 2012

I worked on this one too...or so they told me. It was so secret that we didn't even know we were working on it, lol!

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Sunday Apr 15, 2012

Lonewolf, the RP representative to the military-industrial complex.

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Sunday Apr 15, 2012

undercoverjoe wrote:Lonewolf, the RP representative to the military-industrial complex.

Former, Joe...that was in the 80s, lol.

I think the best MI complex rep we have now would be grimmbass

The_Underground · Post by **The_Underground** » Sunday Apr 15, 2012

If it's a computer, I can fix it. My amps & guitars? Not so much lol

kayla · Post by **kayla** » Monday Apr 16, 2012

Geetarzz wrote: Building a low wattage tube amp sounds like it would be a really cool project. Look around on ebay to find parts.

i was thinkin of buyin a kit, i really don't know what i'd need to part one out. i should do some research and see what kinda parts i'd need. i know with the pedal kits they sell, that you can buy everything for those for way less than they sell the kits. maybe thats the same case with the tube amp kits. hmm.