Surfy Bear Reverb

[diablochris6]

I've had an old Surfy Bear PCB for over a year but never got around to building a box for it. I finally got around to building the enclosure. It was quite a woodworking learning experience for me, and I made some mistakes, but I am pleased with the end product overall. I used some oak from Home Depot and some oak panels for the front and back. The wave picture is a transfer of a photocopy by using acetone. It didn't fully transfer over, so I went over the fine lines with Sharpie and carefully sprayed light layers of poly over it so it wouldn't bleed. I'm still waiting on an LED bulb before I wire up the indicator light. I added a dry kill switch and a "Bellows" control, which is the C10 mod. I have a rotary with three additional capacitors to add more cavernous bass sounds. This thing is rad!






Hang ten!

[dan.schumaker]

Looks great!  Good job on the box joints!

[selfdestroyer]

So awesome Chris!

[jimilee]

Man, that's beautiful. So that whole big unit is just reverb?


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[wgc]

Looks awesome, especially for working with oak

[Martan]

Great job, Chris!

[bcalla]

Impressive woodworking!

[matmosphere]

That's beautiful man. Very cool idea.

[Aleph Null]

Love the wood burning graphic!

[bluescage]

That looks really great!

[storyboardist]

Nice work man! Graphic came out fantastic!

[kinski]

Nice build! I made one over a year ago. It sounds better than a lot of my amp spring reverbs!

I built my controls into a 125B. I used a 4PDT stomp to toggle between two different MIX pots (MIX 1, MIX 2) and a bi-color LED.

Think I might build their trem pedal as well!

[diablochris6]

Man, that's beautiful. So that whole big unit is just reverb?

Sure is. Sometimes it's all about presentation.

Love the wood burning graphic!

It's actually a transfer of a photocopy onto wood with acetone and redrawing parts with a Sharpie marker. I thought about wood burning, but didn't want to work that long on it and lose some of the transfer detail.

[Boba7]

Beautiful! I'll have to look into it, would love to build a real spring reverb someday...

It looks really really good, congrats!!

[jimilee]

Man, that's beautiful. So that whole big unit is just reverb?

Sure is. Sometimes it's all about presentation.

Love the wood burning graphic!

It's actually a transfer of a photocopy onto wood with acetone and redrawing parts with a Sharpie marker. I thought about wood burning, but didn't want to work that long on it and lose some of the transfer detail.

I just saw a fender reverb just like that one on the local Craig's list. Yours is truly beautiful.


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