Author: Badscrew
Dad Joke I just wrote
– How do you call a male Mermaid? – A Mermate
Little Walnut
April 2023, 4 years old April 2024, 5 years old
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…
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
Gin – Tonic augmented
This is a weird one but very tasty. Like gin tonic but with richer taste and aroma.
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…
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….
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,…
Rapid sketch
In the Alps, staying there for a week
Daily haul
Tomatoes and tomatillos
First Salsa Verde of the season is in the making
(with a twist: added some green unripe tomatoes to the mix) The full recipe:
Bad Screamer: more gain
All articles from the Bad Screamer series This one is very similar to the Bad Screamer: adding a mid-boost version, the difference being the gain stage has a Darlington pair, increasing maximum available gain (by a lot). I made this modification thinking ahead about using the same schematic but with…
Pink Grenade
Another pink cocktail 🙂
Tomatillos
They grow very well in containers and suffer less from slugs. Soon will be making home-made Salsa Verde 🙂
Stripcaster HH – 2
Continuing from the part 1 First couple of oil coats to seal the wood against the dust and the dirt. Next making a pickup routing template and the routing out the cavity The combination of the previous pickup and the new pickup cavities makes for a weird shape 🙂 Testing…