it dirty (presumably due to years spent in some warehouse or recycling center, before some guy decided to sell 250 of them on ebay)
at least there are only 2 stickers, most are way worse than this
shells: clean and dry, but not dry enough to install electronics yet
faceplate stickers and scuffs: removed. shout outs to my friend the melamine sponge
frets: polished. this part is kinda annoying and it takes forever but it affects the feel quite a lot besides just looking nice
part 2 electronic bits tomorrow
hell yea it’s the fun part. time to deal with all this stuff
removed old wires and the most dogshit RoHS-compliant solder in existence from the boards i’m reusing. also modded the fret silicone pads
welcome to spaghetti city
(yes, the joystick is a terrible bodge. i forgot about it when i was designing the board)
it’s assembly o’clock (and i almost forgot about the whammy, it is now connected to the mainboard)
(i think i rechosted the right post this time)
