ColinS
Well-known member
Friends,
I have a problem.
Last year I completed my first DIY project, a G1176...it's not the prettiest, it doesn't have the fanciest components in it, but it's mine and I love it. It's currently a permanent resident in my bass-rig.
Early in Feb I started on my G9. I've got the components on the board, got the wires soldered into the holes for the XLRs. Still waiting to do the instrument jack mod though, and I've not attached the control boards either. I've done the CAD drawing for the front panel and passed it to my friendly mechanical engineer to drill for me in his fancy milling machine. He's doing it for free (as in beer), so I don't know when it'll be finished. Probably no time soon, so my soldering-iron hand is getting itchy and my eye is wandering to other DIY projects. In short my G9 has stalled.
My situation was worsened when Gustav put Calreq boards up for sale, so I bought some. Think they're gonna be a rainy-day project....I started getting an order together for the components, but it got kinda expensive and I got bored and binned the basket at Farnell.
Furthermore I've bought some new headphones which I'm fairly sure are going to be difficult to drive, so I went looking for a headphone amp. Commercial ones are awfully expensive so I looked a DIYing one and found Perander's rather sexy looking QRV07...I'm waiting for pay-day to try and order one of his boards. Then I'll need to buy all the components and find time to stick it all together. Or maybe it'll just sit in the drawer with the calrec boards.....
Part of my loss of enthusiasm is down to work being terribly busy and a need to do normal life stuff. I know for sure if I said to my girlfriend..."can't go out this evening, I'm soldering" she would either kill me to death on the spot or burst into tears and run for the hills.
I really enjoyed making my G1176, and so far I've had fun making my G9. But since it's stalled I just seem to have started hankering for something new. I think it's because my plan for my mostly DIY bass-rig (G9, Calreq, G1176, bought-power-amp, DIY cab) is getting more and more of a reality I keep jumping towards different parts of it. I think I just need to stick to one thing at a time.
Has anyone else experienced similar problems? How did you re-motivate yourself or did you just go with the flow and work on different things as you felt drawn to them?
Colin
I have a problem.
Last year I completed my first DIY project, a G1176...it's not the prettiest, it doesn't have the fanciest components in it, but it's mine and I love it. It's currently a permanent resident in my bass-rig.
Early in Feb I started on my G9. I've got the components on the board, got the wires soldered into the holes for the XLRs. Still waiting to do the instrument jack mod though, and I've not attached the control boards either. I've done the CAD drawing for the front panel and passed it to my friendly mechanical engineer to drill for me in his fancy milling machine. He's doing it for free (as in beer), so I don't know when it'll be finished. Probably no time soon, so my soldering-iron hand is getting itchy and my eye is wandering to other DIY projects. In short my G9 has stalled.
My situation was worsened when Gustav put Calreq boards up for sale, so I bought some. Think they're gonna be a rainy-day project....I started getting an order together for the components, but it got kinda expensive and I got bored and binned the basket at Farnell.
Furthermore I've bought some new headphones which I'm fairly sure are going to be difficult to drive, so I went looking for a headphone amp. Commercial ones are awfully expensive so I looked a DIYing one and found Perander's rather sexy looking QRV07...I'm waiting for pay-day to try and order one of his boards. Then I'll need to buy all the components and find time to stick it all together. Or maybe it'll just sit in the drawer with the calrec boards.....
Part of my loss of enthusiasm is down to work being terribly busy and a need to do normal life stuff. I know for sure if I said to my girlfriend..."can't go out this evening, I'm soldering" she would either kill me to death on the spot or burst into tears and run for the hills.
I really enjoyed making my G1176, and so far I've had fun making my G9. But since it's stalled I just seem to have started hankering for something new. I think it's because my plan for my mostly DIY bass-rig (G9, Calreq, G1176, bought-power-amp, DIY cab) is getting more and more of a reality I keep jumping towards different parts of it. I think I just need to stick to one thing at a time.
Has anyone else experienced similar problems? How did you re-motivate yourself or did you just go with the flow and work on different things as you felt drawn to them?
Colin