Show your pedal guts!

[Travis]

Very cool! Is that one of the old pedalenclosures boxes??

[johnk]

Travis wrote

Very cool! Is that one of the old pedalenclosures boxes??

no. it's a brand new one from ebay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SF542-DIY-Blank-Sloped-Pedal-Fuzz-Project-Enclosure-Guitar-Footswitch-Box-/261971857757?hash=item3cfebd515d:g:AY4AAOSwHnFVqdJO


it looks like he has one left.

[Silver Blues]

John, where do you get the relays for that board? I just noticed after I ordered some that the relay is a dual-coil type. I have a bunch of single-coil latching relays but no dual-coil ones.

[Sensei Tim]

http://ca.mouser.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?R=TQ2-L2-5Vvirtualkey66710000virtualkey769-TQ2-L2-5V

[johnk]

[Silver Blues]

Thanks again

[johnk]

Crowther Prunes & Custard clone in a 1590B with relayed true bypass:

[Chris60601]

John - you have a great eye for keeping the overall flow of the color of the pedal to coincide with the decals. Well done however, as beautiful as this one is - your use of using the bare enclosure is by far the most impressive.


Man, I love seeing your builds

[johnk]

thanks Chris.

here's another one. a modified Bazz Fuss in a 1590A:

[Sensei Tim]

Here's a BJFE Blueberry Bass OD based on Rocket88's layout for a local bassist. He picked out the Steve Brule graphics, and the psychadelic background happened by accident when i was playing with filters and textures in inkscape.

[Beaker]

Nice work Tim, love the graphics.

Here's my lastest effort. A Pearl Vorg Warp Filter housed in a recycled and thoroughly knackered Crybaby shell. Finished just in time for my son's birthday yesterday.

For anyone who does not know, the photo is Terry Wogan.













As this is one of Kevin Shields' favourite pedals, here is a quick and dirty iphone video of my son hitting the accelerator.

video-1447610475.mp4

[Heath]

Yeah, you guys are on a whole other level from me.  I've been building these things for years now and the insides of mine still look like robot vomit.

[Beaker]

I know what you mean Heath - I'm starting to think twice before I put anything up these days!

[Sensei Tim]

everyone starts somewhere!  my first builds were ATROCIOUS.  like... sizing my caps completely wrong so that they were almost bigger than the vero that i was building on, graphics that didn't line up, or had bubbling in it, sloppy wire routing, using way too much solder, etc.

I crept the picture threads here and on FSB and DIYSB and learned all the tips and tricks that i could and tried to incorporate them into my builds.   what you don't see are the  number of scrapped enclosures and litres of acetone that i've gone thru to clean up flubbed boxes and redo them from scratch ;)

[Luke51411]

This one won't win any awards for neat guts... It's a collaboration I did on another forum. I didn't do the design or artwork on the case which is way better than I could do anyway. I built the circuits, they are a SHO, Rat, and a Musket fuzz. It's a pretty sick sounding dirtbox! I love it.

[rocket88]

first off, tim love the blueberry, and glad the layout workout so nicely.

beaker, i've got to that looks so ridiculous i love it, and i listened to the video and i'm sold. have to add it to my list. it sounds freaking awesome. where did you find a 10k lin wah pot btw?

you know heath, you always say that but we haven't seen any proof of this robot vomit. i'm sure it's not as bad as you make it out to be.

[Heath]

rocket88 wrote

you know heath, you always say that but we haven't seen any proof of this robot vomit. i'm sure it's not as bad as you make it out to be.

Challenge accepted.





I just have to get home first. :D

[Beaker]

Zach, before comitting to the wah build, I tried a few different pot values, and 10k chopped off the extremes of the sweep. 20k worked best.

I got one of these Superswell wah pots, as well as the yellow rubber top plates, and feet from Das Musikding in Germany.

http://www.musikding.de/Superswell-pot-20k

My son just wanted it to look esily identifiable from his Crybaby on a dark stage, hence the flourescent yellow and green paint!

The Terry Wogan / Terror Wahgwan bit was all his idea.

[rocket88]

genious. i don't think you could mistake it for a regular crybaby. really turned out awesome.

[Silver Blues]

Holy nuts that Plague fuzz looks (and sounds like it would be) epic!