AB 763 unpopulated turrett board Hoffman Layout

[zfiles1701]

Anybody know of a place I can purchase an AB763 Hoffman Layout turret board for a decent price?  Found one out there for $80.
But found plenty of others for around $40.  The problem is the lower price boards are not the Hoffman Layout and I want ot try the power tube tremelo Doug mentioned in his AB 763 page.  Can the non-HOffman AB 763 boards boards be used to build a hoffman 763?
I would pay more than $40 but $80 is kind of high.
Thanks in advance.
PS Also, it will be single channel with reverb and tremelo (not dual channel).

[FYL]

Doug's AB763 board is quite costly to build with more than 120 turrets.

16"x   1/8" epoxy board  $9.92
120x  Turrets                $18.00
   
3"x     Lacing wire         $1.20
 
1x      Board sanding      $3.50
120x   Std. Holes          $9.00
120x   Turrets press      $18.00
94x     Lacing               $18.80
6x      Mnt. Holes          $0.60
1x      Finish                 $3.50
1x      Final test            $4.00

Basic cost is more than $90 if the builder pays himself decently !

[sluckey]

There are several board manufacturers listed here...

http://www.el34world.com/boardmaker/boardkitmakers.htm

Several forum members also make boards.

[HotBluePlates]

If I wasn't deployed right now, I could help you out. I have a bunch of AB763 boards just hanging out back in the states.

[zfiles1701]

If you werent deployed how much would you sell it for?  And sorry to hear your out there man.  I was back in 91 and it sucked.
Hope you make it back alright.

[Shrapnel]

HPB,

Be safe, boredom or not. Those guys are tricksy little sneaks when they want to be. (the ones your there to help prevent from regaining control until the locals can do it themselves.) < ASSUMPTION: your deployed to a hot zone, but even then... > We all want you back here safe and sound when your "tour" is up.

[HotBluePlates]

If you werent deployed how much would you sell it for?

I'd sell it for $40. When I built and sold Hoffman boards, I charged more than $80 I think. The reason is that it is more expensive for materials (G10 board, turrets, lacining wire), tooling (drilling guide, bits, drill press) and labor (drilling/staking turrets, installing/soldering lacing wire, finishing board edges) than what's required to make a Fender reproduction eyelet board. The eyelets are cheaper, you use fish paper (heavy fiber board insulator) for the board, and only need a heavy-duty hole punch not unlike one for regular notebook paper.

But now that I have a bunch hanging out and have stopped producing boards, I can afford to let them go for around my cost to produce.

And sorry to hear your out there man.  I was back in 91 and it sucked. Hope you make it back alright.

It's a different place now, and I'm a Fobbitt anyway... The places that used to be hot are calm, other places are bad, and the people that bad guys would like to hurt and why are different. All-in-all, I'd be embarrassed for anyone to make a big deal out of my deployment. Give the kudos to the engineers and anyone of Afghanistan.

[PRR]

> It's a different place now, and I'm a Fobbitt anyway...

It's a different world and a different language now. "Fobbitt"??

In private chat I joked about your "foxhole", but I didn't know there was a word for your situation.

For those of us who remember our Asian adventures: think of M*A*S*H. You got the generals back in peaceful Saigon or Tokyo, you got grunts dropped into hostile jungles and swamps. In between you have Forward Operating Bases: airstrips, hospitals, motor pools, radio systems. As in M*A*S*H, these are situated within reach of the fighting, but far enough back to be out of immanent danger. It's a tent-town, but the tents don't move for months or years, grow floors and tin roofs and electrical outlets and a PX. (Maybe better living than some of my neighbors.)

Then a fobbit is someone who, like the M*A*S*H doctors and support staff, hangs around the FOB like a hobbit around the Shire. Doesn't go out in the jungle/desert, doesn't get to hang around the Hotel Saigon neither. Doesn't carry a weapon. Stabilizes casualties for transport to a rear hospital. Refuels airplanes to go out again. Changes the plugs and oil in jeeps. Forklifts boxes from warehouse A to warehouse B and back. HBP may be cranking the heliograph or decrypting toilet-paper requisitions or recharging the Colonel's cell-phone. He's not allowed to say, because "loose lips sink ships". (Or, knowing the miltary, he could be inspecting the kitchen; my dad had an EE degree and was assigned to oversee KP.)

It's a job. It's free room and board (and not a foxhole or K-rations/MREs). You can incidentally get to know people in another land, or hide in your bunk and play PS3. It's also a paycheck, not a good paycheck but in this economic climate any for-sure paycheck looks good.

[HotBluePlates]

... hangs around the FOB like a hobbit around the Shire. Doesn't go out in the jungle/desert, doesn't get to hang around the Hotel Saigon neither. Doesn't carry a weapon.

You're description is spot-on, except for the weapon. We're all armed, all the time. The likelihood of actually using your weapon is much lower for folks like me.

But let's just say we're working 24/7 to enable to folks that are on the tip of the spear.