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Make Your Own Light Show?
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:47 pm
by johnallg
So John gave us the source for the plastic cover for a LS, and talk was thrown around of using LEDs instead of the higher voltage and hot bulbs of old, and I went searching the internet for color organ boards that used LEDs, and didn't get very far with it and the prices of what I found were inflated.
So Sunday I was looking through the Best Buy ad and lo and behold I see this for $20.
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So anyone have input on this? I'd think the battery would last quite a while, which eliminates the cord coming back to the instrument to power a LS. Input?
Of course you'd strip out the leds and circuit.
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:49 pm
by sloop_john_b
I would be more than willing to donate my 4005 to such a project.
::chuckle::
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:52 pm
by johnallg
April 1st is long past, John!
But a 330 project guitar would be intersting...
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:57 pm
by sloop_john_b
Definitely would!
When did John give up the source for the plastic diffraction stuff for the top? Where is it?
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:33 pm
by dale_fortune
Tap Plastics
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:42 am
by jps
I think a 330DCM would be the perfect donor instrument for this project.
The color is about right!
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 4:08 am
by marc61
I wanna make a light show..Be cool...
and I'd gladly donate a 4005 for it, but it has to be someone else's as I don't own one...
Is there another bass that can be used?
So hard to find project basses these days too...A mid 70's 4001 carcass seems to go $500-600.
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 4:09 am
by sloop_john_b
Don't think you can use a 4000 series anyway, too thin.
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 4:10 am
by marc61
http://www.tapplastics.com/
Maybe then, I won't even use a Ric, but I guess that'd defeat the purpose...
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 4:11 am
by marc61
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 4:22 am
by jwr2
I was toying with the Idea of turning a 2030 into a lightshow bass with plastic and led lights a few years ago ...
the nice part about led lights is you can power them with a small battery, they are small, they don't burn out easily, and they don't generate a lot of heat ... also you could do it without routing the wood ...
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:27 am
by rickenbrother
I just woke up and my eyes are a little blurry...I thought the little penguin had M&Ms on it!!
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:38 am
by incubus2432
I would think with some light surface routing (3/16") in a lightshow like outline pattern on a 4003 with some LED's, a trip to Radio Shack, reflective paint or foil and a diffused plastic covering a modern lightshow should be relatively easy/inexpensive.
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:43 am
by marc61
Just got back from Radio Shack. Had all the stuff except they were all out of 4003s...damn!
Seriously, be cool if we had a few different versions of the LS made up, just for fun..again, the problem is there are no inexpensive Rics out there to play with ..
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:54 am
by kcole4001
Maybe Dave would donate a 4080 to make a double LS!