This is a clone of the Jack Orman Mini Booster. The enclose was etched using the Bantam Tools desktop milling machine. The circuit board layout was done by me using Autodesk Eagle. It was also made on the Bantam Tools desktop milling machine.
I’ve been using a Cricket Maker 3 to put some designs onto t-shirts. These two are not my designs, so we’ll categorize them as “tests”. The blue one is from “The Book of the SubGenius”. The white shirt character is from one of my son’s books.
The Cricut is really coming in handy by getting ideas down quickly. It doesn’t compare to screen printing but I’d rather do this than go through the entire screen printing process unless there was a need to mass-produce.
I’m currently in the process of building myself a Fender Jazzmaster style guitar. The body was purchased from MJT and the color is Antigua. The neck is off of a 40th anniversary Squier Jazzmaster. Thought about purchasing a neck from Warmoth but found the particular neck I’m using to be comfortable and there was really no need to upgrade.
There is one issue with the neck, however. The holes that are used to mount onto the guitar body were improperly drilled, so I enlarged the holes and glued some dowels into the holes. Next step is to cut the dowels and redrill the holes in the correct spot.
This was plotted using the Cricut Maker 3 and a Pilot V5 pen. The image is split into different sections and then filled using the Axidraw “Hatch Fill” extension in Inkscape. The lines are 1mm and vary in degrees within their sections.
Finished up the Jazzmaster build and it plays very well. It’s a little loud because of the nature of the pickups. They are high-output Electrical Guitar Company pickups and sound great.