How I wasted 2 months

I keep telling myself I need to manage my time properly. What with the beard mostly white and the brain leastly grey, I need to ensure I’m spending quality time on whatever it is that I’m spending time on.

Which is all nice, but then I decided I needed to build one of these things to manage my guitar effects:

 

Schematic for Raggy

 

Hey, I’m no electrician and I’m no technician, but boys will be boys even when they’re men and more so when they’re kicking the wrong side of 40, and so I plunged into this crazy business. The fact that I could not get the product ready-built anywhere in Malaysia sort of justified the adventure.

And from that diagram (which took a couple of weeks of research to come up with), a frantic search for components across Malaysia and Singapore (why do they always have the stuff you need in that tiny island instead of over here), I built this:

Inside Raggy

 

Which, when completed and connected would be like this:

Loopbox connections

In the greater scheme of things, I had also been collecting various other guitar effects, got a custom-build case for all the stuff, then had lots of fun velcro-ing all things in unimaginably kinky ways, a whole bunch of cables to connect everything built by my long-suffering friend Eisubius….and everything now resides as so:

Pedalboard Top View

Which could have been it, really, but apart from getting all of this done I also had my old Fender Twin Reverb amp cut up, it was just wayyyyyyy too heavy to carry around so I had it seperated into a head and a speaker-cab, and now I use the Fender cab with my Marshall TSL100 head or the Fender head…..

Fender Twin Reverb Head

 

My Fender Cab

 

The best of the best of 2 worlds:

Marshall-Fender

Boys and their toys, indeed!