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This truck? Found in THIS THREAD. Couldn’t find anything deeper than pictures “stole from somewhere”. Rad truck though. Still dig those flares.

Sweet! Did it start out as a manufactured rig, kit, or a put together parts-caster? Love the white with the grain on the back. Very sharp!

You should. Guitars are especially rad when you can look at a rack or a wall and really have to decide which one to pick up. In the mean time, here’s my pick guard for the “waste-bass-ket”… yup, it got named.

About 3.5” in the front. Metric ton and extended shackles in the rear.

2012: 2022: Probably not the end of the story, but this is the end of mine. It was a good run and I’m very happy to see it go to a good home. I’ll let him post up if he’d like, but for now I’ll just say that it clearly went to the right person.

Need to find a use for the album cover too. Very groovy.

Have we discussed guitars here before? I play. I’m sure others here do as well. Doesn’t matter if it’s guitar, bass, banjo, sitar, or dulcimer… playing stringed instruments is awesome. So? Who’s rocking what? Let’s see those set ups! Mine is almost cut/paste from my shop thread, but there has been some changes to the line up recently. Everything lives in the cabinets up in the loft in my shop. They’re simple plywood boxes that do a good job of keeping the dust out with their stained and glazed cherry doors. In the middle, you’ll find a couple boxes for gear below the Ampeg BA112 amp. As of recently the gang has been a small collection of a strange combination. From left to right is a 1974 Fender Precision bass that’s got multiple layers of history for me, a late ‘90s Cort Curbow five string that’s been following me around since 1999 in junior high, a baritone ukulele I’ve had since high school that I’ve been threatening to finally learn how to play properly, and then a weird assortment of parts built around a maple, white oak, and walnut body I put together in high school, took apart for other parts, and then recently reassembled. Anyhow, I like to play. Since quitting my job four months ago to focus on myself and my shop, I’ve gotten back into it after not hardly picking up a guitar in over six years. Between working in my shop I wander up to the loft and just sit down to noodle around. Now that my shop is completely up to speed I’ve been looking back at building guitars. I kind of did in high school, but it was mostly just the basics of building a body and reusing a neck. It was never quite right though. Originally it had a fretless neck but after refinishing it i found out that it had a broken truss rod. The replacement was from a parted out Mexican Fender Jazz that I picked up used but never really fell in love with. This bass has a huge, heavy body that screams for a fretless neck just in terms of giant sound and fat tone. So?… I took it apart… again. I wanted to build another bass the same way I did years ago but more so that’ll match the Jazz Bass neck. I started with plywood and a pallet. I’ve got a pile of 10’ stretchers off the bottom of huge pallets. They’re all some kind of hardwood and this one turned out to be some kind of red oak. The two other cut outs are from leftover sub flooring plywood. This was more of a proof of concept type idea for me and a challenge for not having any special tools. I don’t have a router so that was the point of multiple layers. Everything was done like an inside out topography map. There’s channels for the wiring, the electronics cover was made just by tracing the shape before the body got glued together, and a bunch of other oddities of building a guitar body that I completely sidestepped by doing it this way. Can’t say I’ve seen someone build a guitar this way, but I saw no reason why not. After finalizing where everything goes, a whole bunch of glue and clamps were used. This was the first time I used a grinder to carve wood. I also saw no reason why not to. Mostly using a gnarly 36 grit flap disk and a flap wheel on a die grinder I got the general shape. This was followed by a DA and hand sanding. Then a bunch of clear. Right now I’m letting it calm down before some more sanding. The clear has really shown off the highs/lows in the grain that I’d like to soften out. In the mean time I’m further embracing the leftover/garbage theme with making a pick guard from a vinyl record. … but I digress. That turned into a wall of text but I’m curious who else plays or builds their own guitars. Let’s see who’s got chops to lay down some sick licks!

Looking forward to this. Good to see you back!

So it would seem. We’ll see if I get to it this winter. It’d also be a good time to pull the trans and see what’s going on behind the torque converter. I actually uncovered it for one last hurrah this week to move the trailer again. On an incline, the transmission definitely feels low on fluid. … and then put it away again… again.

Pickled Peppers I put these things on just about anything. Sandwich? Yup. Eggs? Why not. They’re mildly time consuming as I don’t have any sort of chopping device or food processor… it’s an activity. They’re also a “choose your own adventure” in terms of spice or sweetness. All depends on your choice of peppers. Here’s my list from this time but I usually make it up when I can get fresh produce from my local farmer’s market… 1/2 pound jalapeños Few fresnos One habanero One pasilla … sweeter recipes can use a red pepper or poblano instead of the pasilla. Using a habanero is totally up to you also. Just be careful when handling the peppers. Don’t tough your eyes and wash your hands immediately afterwards! You’ll definitely find all those little cuts on your fingers that you forgot about. Anyhow, cut up the peppers however you want. I try to make my cuts no thicker than 1/8” and I remove all seeds. Cram it all into a mason jar and add about two cloves worth of fresh garlic. Brine time. Use a small sauce pan and put this stuff in it… 1 cup of water 1/2 cup white distilled vinegar 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons honey Don’t get a rolling boil, but warm it all up to dissolve the salt and honey. Let it go until it just barely starts boiling. Slowly add it to the jar of peppers. It’ll just about fill it completely. Put a lid on it. Give it a good shake to get everything all raving together. Let it cool on your counter then put it in the fridge. Forget about it for at least a week. Enjoy on tons of stuff.

Pictures are dead, but Rob used a 5/16” drill bit.

Ha! I was just looking at the Craigslist ad for this truck.

Indeed it is! We’ll done.

Trace and cut. I’d really like to demo one of these! https://arcdroidcnc.com/

I’m getting that predictable?

You know you don’t need that kind of cash, right?

Nobody won. What are your plans for $2+ billion?

Wow. For the longest time I had a standard for a "unicorn truck" that keeps dropping a little more every year. Low mileage, factory paint, and straight lines is about where I'm at these days and I'd be very happy owning this truck. That said, it wasn't that long ago that the SCCA truck sold for $15k on BAT. Sure hope the seller doesn't have the "mines just like it" mentality.

Time to get washed and put away. Had a nice time with the truck a couple days ago. Used it to put the trailer down the hill then over to the car wash. This hill always feels steeper than it is when backing a trailer down. Did some running around town with it too. Parked it down the hill and?… … here I thought we were having a nice time. That axle seal is totally wasted. Regardless, it got put away and covered up and out away until next year. Got the shop ready for winter. Sleep well, buddy.

If it is the same CJ, I'm sure the emphasis was on the drivetrain. An EV crate engine has got to be on all the big manufacturer's to-do list by now.

Anybody else tracking interesting concepts? https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-jeep-cj-surge-concept-may-be-the-off-road-ev-crate-motor-weve-been-waiting-for Interesting thoughts behind an EV crate engine but the whole works looks to me like a warmed over CJ66 from 2016. Resemblance is uncanny. Suppose it’s better than letting it rot in a warehouse if it is the same rig though. Overall, well done I think. Been done before, but still well done.

The harness is new(ish) but the execution wasn’t done up to par. That’s another ‘72-‘75 intermediate CJ anomaly that they used later switches but an earlier style harness which opens the door up wide for butchery. I think 1975 was the first year that used the square bulkhead fitting on the firewall that we all know. Early harnesses are available as are late model harnesses. 1972-‘75 are like the ‘86 MJs of the CJ world.

As for another project that took way too long… … three years. It took me three years to wire in the tach.

Looks like we both won the guessing game! I pulled the dimmer switch to find that the action felt terrible. When it did click was when the lights would come on. New switch and the removal of about two feet of wiring later, and things were working again. … right up until I started backing out of the shop and they went out again. This time it was with a noticeable popping sound from behind the dash. See, the wiring harness was “installed” by a complete idiot and then “fixed” later on by another. I tracked down the wires from the fuse panel to the switch to find?… … a big problem at the switch that was hidden by a giant wad of tape. Some wires were tied together and some weren’t that needed to be. One such set was a big red wire that lost power when I pulled the headlight circuit fuse and an orange one that had a constant 12 volts. With the switch wiring mocked up, the red wire and the switch itself got noticeably warm but didn’t pop the 40 amp fuse (which seems big to me, but I left it for now). I pulled the orange wire and left just the dedicated red wire from the headlight circuit, took another couple feet of useless wire out of the picture, and all is well without getting warm. Somewhere along the journey I lost function of the high beam indicator in the cluster. Can’t win them all… guess I’ll be tracking that one down when I decide to tackle pulling the cage to get behind the dash.