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Little Walnut
April 2023, 4 years old April 2024, 5 years old
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Bad Screamer: tweaking
All articles from the Bad Screamer series As usual, modelling germanium transistor circuits can only go this far, what you actually get in reality can be different from the simulation. Also, this is about putting components into their unusual modes of functioning: getting a pleasant to the ear distortion can’t be predicted from the sims…
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Tomatoes are still going strong
This no-name species passed to me from my family, AKA “my grand mother’s tomatoes” aren’t stopping at all: this is what I’ve gotten today, and I picked them two days ago last time. Small but tasting so great
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Gin – Tonic augmented
This is a weird one but very tasty. Like gin tonic but with richer taste and aroma.
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Harley Benton HQS «High Quality Strings»: no they aren’t
So I’ve got these to test them. Cheap, 2.88€ a set. Colored ends. Pretty cardboard box. But how good are they? After putting around 50 hours in (on the StripCaster): they aren’t. Right after putting them on, the wound strings were already lacking in high freq content but now it’s like they’re 10 years old.…
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Gorria Peppers
This is a famous South of France variate from the Basque country, these are better known as Piments d’Espelette after the village that made them famous. You can’t call “Espelette” any peppers grown outside of this village though 🙂 Last year they were miserable in my garden, very low yield. This year though:
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Gold-o-Caster final touch
Gold-o-Caster series The very last thing that was left to do: replacing the black pickup switch tip with a golden one. Spot a difference 🙂 Before: After: The “gold” color of the tip is not exactly the same hue as the gold of the buttons or of the control plate, but it’ll do for now.…
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Rapid sketch
In the Alps, staying there for a week
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Daily haul
Tomatoes and tomatillos