Another guitar to mess with

Hi - this one is reputedly from around 1920 - various people have had a go at it - now it's my turn.

First get the action fixed:

Action ever so slightly unplayable

Simply remove some of the fretboard

then saw the neck off

Supro 60 Pick Up

Supro 60 Pick Up

This is the pick up from the Supro 60 Lap Steel guitar I'm restoring. As far as I can tell it is from around 1938 to 1940 and is one of the first production electric guitar pick ups.

Repairs to a Roland Boss GT-8 Guitar Effects Pedal

Hi - recently got a broken GT-8 to try out. It had a fine crack on the PCB which caused lots of buttons to stop working and took out a 5V regulator. Didn't have a direct replacement regulator so plumbed one in temporarily (now that Christmas and new year has been dispensed with, have received a proper one).

Rather than link out the tracks at the crack, I connected a wire to each end of the break since you can solder to proper solder pads on IC's or components which are much more reliable. It took a jolly long time - but works great now.

The sounds are great - the best bit so far is having 2 parallel amp simulators - so you can have one doing the basic guitar sound and the other with distortion etc mixed together.

Here's some photos:

Roland Boss GT-8 Guitar Effects Pedal

The temporary 5V regulator on the main logic board

The front panel board after repair

The crack is horizontally across the centre of this photo - this shows the wire links I've added

Cheers Chris