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Due to the extreme height and relatively narrow width of this custom cabinet, I’m building airflow guides inside of it, along with powerful fans at the bottom and top to pass airflow up across the modules, greatly enhancing convection effect. The system will have a small, recessed panel in its side which allows the base temp to be set, measured by an internal probe, so it can self regulate. Fans are insanely quiet.
Piggybacking on this post:
@blackwing Ravi Shankar pencil set arrive.
As did a @klipschaudio sub to help shop tuneage be more ass whoopin’.

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Quick detour to cut parts for @golfwithghosts Brad has his work cut out for him tomorrow. Relentlessly unending.
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Yeah. She’s thicc, and oh so effin sexy. I mean, jaw dropping, show stopping, traffic crashing, sexy. I need to ramp up my therapy sessions cause these feelings ain’t right.
Some cleanup left, then her ebony makeup goes on. Stealth ebony, walnut, and black leather. Guess her name?
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#euroracksynth#eurorackcase

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Podular Modular has its 150th Episode! This show features Needham Woodworks-er @davidrothbaum his music, work, and working with the lunatic behind NWW. I haven’t gotten to that part yet and am bracing myself.

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Episode 150!!!! 3 years of Pod Mod!!!
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This week we have @davidrothbaum on the show to talk about field recording, working with @needhamwoodworks and his new album on @mysterycircles

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NWW-er @davidrothbaum ‘s tasty Sunday offering.
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4.11.21

This started as an experiment with the @joranalogue Compare 2 where I made a very small window so that anytime Ground Control played a C it would advance ansible which is playing the bass part. So cool 🙂

The things I used to make this:

@endorphin.es Ground Control sequencing @mutableinstruments Rings into @worng_electronics Parallax.

Ansible sequencing the @intellijel Atlantis as well as the @whimsicalraps Mangrove into the @soma_laboratory Lyra8+FX

All the other usual suspects as well: @weareelektron RYTM, @makenoisemusic Marhs & teletype.

Thanks for listening.

#windowcomparator #ambientsorta #intellijel #monome #teletype #worngelectronics #somaelectronic #modularsynth #welcometospacelounge #eurorack #eurorackmodular #needhamwoodworks#eskatonicmodular

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Now that we no longer need to dink around with shipping crates, we’ve refocused some time on our case candy package. New surprises with every new batch. @golfwithghosts did a crackin’ job on the packaging.

All current cases are being queued up. David will be reaching out to all in this batch shortly with info.
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Needham Woodworks-er @davidrothbaum latest dish of tasty vittles. His footage makes me want to sell a bass and buy a black magic camera.
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4.8.21

Patch notes:
Drums: @weareelektron RYTM
Melody: @doepfer_musikelektronik Quad Osc into @verboselectronics Dual Four pole filter & sequence with @addacsystem VC Clock Sources, monome teletype & ansible
Bass: @roland_us SH-101 sequenced by @endorphin.es Ground Control

Thanks for listening.

#notremotleyambient #monome #sh101 #elektronanalogrytm #modularsynth #dawless #endorphines #makenoise #addac #verboselectronics #doepfer #eurorackmodular#needhamwoodworks #eskatonicmodular

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Sweet f*ck, look at this finish! Came in to see Brad’s finish work on this one. Pore filler, Osmo, and this first coat of wax. He’ll put a last one on tomorrow after this one cures, but the it already looks like glass with an irresistible feel to the touch. Am I supposed to get this turned on by a finish job? I’ll bring it up during next therapy appt.
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#woodtherapy#whiteoak

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Such a simple step saves significant time over the day, especially with high volume of panels and limited clamps. Marking time a panel was clamped up, allows the joints to cook just long enough to move onto the next panel without wasting time.

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A few of the design details I used on the double 30Us are being taken over to the Amazonian eurorack Queen, namely staggered depth rabbets on each edge which creates wonderful shadow lines. Instead of grooving directly into the side panels to hold the backs in place, I’ll be using 1/2” thick grooved runners, similar to the one which nearly took my hand off, but all joints are squared up this time so no tricky angled cuts will be necessary.
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#eurorackcase#modularsynth#eskatonicmodular#needhamwoodworks

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Needham Woodworks-er @davidrothbaum getting shit done with another tasty offering.
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4.7.21

Things I used:
@endorphin.es Ground Control
@modormusic Noisy Oscillator
Roland SH-101
@trexeffects Replicator
@weareelektron RYTM
Fostex A-4

Thank for listening.

#modularsynth #endorphinesgroundcontrol #modor #tape #ambientish
#needhamwoodworks#eskatonicmodular

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The @colin_sequentix Cirklon makes a quick appearance from her snuggly bubble wrap & blanket cocoon to get measured & fit for her new home. Brad just left, Bill Evans is quietly playing, and my late-night church service has commenced.
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#sequentix#sequentixcirklon#billevans#woodworkinglateatnight

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The drilling template I made with my @shapertools Origin was a hero, as usual. Bracket holes laid out across the inside faces of the sides, and both faces of the divider line up perfectly on this behemoth 5’ tall eurorack cabinet. Doing this manually with some sort of layout chain of brackets wouldve been hellish & fraught with inconsistencies. I truly, madly, deeply love this machine.
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#shapermade#shaperorigin#eurorackcase

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Sneak peek at the smaller of the two special dovetailed 18Us, @golfwithghosts had finished while I was nom nomming on dinner.Regular Osmo & Mylands wax. Sweet fark. Look at those medullary rays. It’s so smooth I can’t stop running hands on her. Sorry @jon_everist but we may keep her here a bit longer because she makes us smile every morning.
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#eurorack#eurorackmodularsynth

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No, we’re not manufacturing meth, rather making shellac from flake. This flake has an ultra pale color which should impart very little yellowing in the wood after it’s been brushed on. I’ll use this shellac to seal the oak’s pores before filling them with aquacoat, keeping the wood’s color tone natural, along with a glassy finish of a closed pore wood like maple.
Shade of finish is one of the two reasons to make your own vs. buying if premade. The other is its concentration in solvent. I prefer a very light cut: .5oz flake to 1 cup denatured alcohol, yielding a 1/2lbs cut. An important trick to speed up the process is to use a coffee grinder to pulverize the flake into a fine powder/dust. Shellac dust dissolves into solvent in minutes vs hours with whole flake.
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Trying to finish oak to be same shade as raw, sanded color is a bit of a PITA due to open pores. Any white stain turns the grain into white streaks. The regular aqua coat yellowed a bit, but the high performance version which arrived 3min ago seems to be doing the job. Hoping I’ll use this then simply put on a coat of the osmo neutral + a drop of white osmo stain, and I think it’ll do the trick.
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#osmo#osmofinish#aquacoat#woodfinishing

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Local Berkeley boys, Primus, must’ve owned a @shapertools Origin. Dead nuts, surgical precision placement of bracket holes on a drilling template. Not ultra fast, but not slow, after she scans in those checkered domino patterns.

Jerry was a race car driver
He drove so goddamn fast
He never did win no checkered flags
But he never did come in last
Jerry was a race car driver
He'd say "El Sob number one"
With a Bocephus sticker on his 442
He'd light 'em up just for fun
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#primus#lesclaypool#shaperorigin

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Inlays across the bottom edge to finish it off. I only have eight 7’ clamps, so was limited to one edge at a time. I wanted to be done with it tonight, so 1 hour per edge on the last 3. She goes to @golfwithghosts ‘ skilled hands tomorrow to start getting purdy. G’night.
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Walnut inlays on soon-to-be ebonized sides. Leather work surface with openings for recessed skiff + 1st & 2nd row modules. Should be done tonight before Zzzzs, then onto Brad for beautification, while I complete builds on the zaftig amazon, rolling cabinet stand for 18U, pile of standard cabinets.
2020 fucked my build queues, but we should finally be at an in/out commission tempo in a few weeks, just as the world reopens and I can get outta Dodge for a spell.
@hjhjack123 Warm up that guest room in Costa Rica. Swank Hall!
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Minutes after @golfwithghosts and I get our 2nd vaccine shot.

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