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Super Set Huawei Ascend P6

Touted as the world's thinnest at the time, the Huawei P1S was no slouch either, featuring a dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM and a great screen. Since then, it's launched the budget-minded G510 and the gigantic Ascend Mate phablet - but it's now ready with a new flagship, the Ascend P6. World's thinnest Yep, Huawei broke the record for world's thinnest smartphone again, as the P6 measures about 6.18mms, compared to the iPhone 5's 7.6mms. Speaking of the iPhone, it's impossible to look at the P6 and not have Apple's device come to mind, mainly owing to the antenna ring and minimalistic design. The P6 is a well-designed phone, with the back curving around to the front when you look at the bottom. I can sort of see what Huawei meant when they said that paper inspired their design. You'll also find an array of ports and bays on the device, with the micro-USB port at the top, microSD and microSIM slots on the right and, strangely enough, the earphone jack...

6EM7 Single Ended Triode SET Vertical Amplifier

What really drove me to build this 6EM7 amp was an idea about amplifier layout. Looking back at most of my tube designs, and most of those on the internet, revealed a very typical pattern. Amplifiers tended to be flat chassis with tubes and transformers above and electronics below. From a historical perspective this makes perfect sense. Metal chassis were built this way to facilitate packaging and assembly. When people started to make tube amplifiers again, they just removed the upper case and built in the same way.

How to set up a Fender Telecaster style guitar

Today I’m going to show you how to set up a Fender Telecaster-style guitar. We are only going to do a basic setup, which is enough most of the time, but occasionally more is required, such as filing the nut, or doing some fretwork. If you're setting up a Stratocaster-style guitar, you might prefer to have a look at this blog post: http://diystrat.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-set-up-electric-guitar.html Alternatively, if you're setting up a Les-Paul-style guitar, you should have a look here: http://diystrat.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-to-set-up-gibson-les-paul-style.html So what does a basic setup involve? Let me break it down for you, as follows: Checking and adjusting neck bow (how straight the neck is) Checking and adjusting saddle height Checking and adjusting the intonation (how far back or forward the saddles need to sit at the bridge to keep your guitar as in tune as possible no matter what fret you’re playing) Those three steps will have a dramatic effect on your guitar and ...