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[Helios]

Aren't all lens covers the same two sizes? Seems like all my shields, no matter who makes them, use one of two sizes, either 2″ x 4¼” or 4½” x 5¼”....

[Helios]

Be sure to let us know how it all works once you have her buttoned back up. We need all the intel we can get to keep these old beasts buzzin!

[Helios]

I set up a cheapo HFT bench grinder with diamond grit cabbing wheels for tungsten grinding, but I rarely use it anymore simply because it's at the far end of my shop and I'm usually in a hurry. Now I just use an angle grinder – I put a groove into the guard to hold the tungsten – and it seems to...

[Helios]

I love the raw, 60Hz solar-wind sound of Hendrix's overdriven old Marshall tube preamp at Woodstock...

https://youtu.be/TPt8vegXAx0?t=62

Too bad the recording is so muddy. There's not much sweeter than a Stratocaster's single-coils singing through an overdriven tube preamp...