Stuff What I Made

In another post I mentioned my odd frame requiring an eccentric bottom bracket. I got it into my head that I could modify the frame to take sliding dropouts, a much better solution to the problem. [Read More]

Having got into the mindset of improving bits of my guitar, I turned my attention some of the mounting of the controls, as the job I did originally left a bit to be desired. [Read More]

In a previous post I discussed making an electric guitar. One thing I didn’t cover there is integrating a Roland GK split pickup that I had acquired cheaply through a friend. This enabled MIDI guitar, among other things. These days Roland make a version of the system suitable for OEMs such that their pickup can be neatly integrated into guitars, but at this time the only option was the incredibly ugly GK-2A. This wasn’t going to fly with me, so I took it to bits and modified it, originally fitting it to an aluminium bracket that sat under the bridge.... [Read More]

One of my old work places had a changing room for those of us who got sweaty commuting to work, which was great, but the lockers had these incredibly annoying spring loaded hinges that, with your hands full made it very frustrating to get things in and out of them. When you have a 3D printer, there’s a phenomenon where suddenly you find solutions popping into your head for minor day-to-day problems such as this. [Read More]

Towards the tail end of 2017, the famed for its middle aisle supermarket chain ALDI had a deal on a 3D printer, for £300. It was badged as Balco but was in fact just a re-branded version of the Chinese brand Wanhao. [Read More]