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Yeah it was a difficult decision, But I decided if I'm gonna compress my signal, it's gonna stay compressed.

The only problem I had without having the switch was biasing the damn thing so it was actually compressing. Comparing the compressed signal to the clean signal was a constant juggle of cables.. But I got there in the end  . If I was to do it again I would probably put a temporary switch in so that I could get the trimpot on the right setting before boxing.. I never rock before I box. (although I SHOULD)... Its all just too exiting!

I should also mention that I subbed in the bass components that were mentioned in another thread here. Its very subtle, but adds a nice little bit of tightness to the sound.

Had this one boxed for a while now, just finally got around to sharing!
Say hello to the Squeezr!:




Guts:



It has since inherited a standard black chunky knob, but I couldnt be bothered taking extra pics! (Sorry For giant photos!)

Really Great! Nice etches!

Love the Grimey Dirty looks they all have.
But I'm a sucker for etched enclosures! 

Very Pretty!

Mudbunnies are a great first build I think. Not too hard and not too easy; then sound GREAT afterwards!
I like your transparency paper use too. Good stuff!  

Wow! Looks like it was a fun build

I can't stop watching this damn video now!
I am also convinced that I now need to build this exact Sabertooth, grow a beard and find a friend to trigger drum's for me. Did you Mod anything in it or is it just built as described? 

How do you get your insides so tidy?! 
The whole thing looks great! I'm a sucker for the plain non-painted enclosure look!
Are they decal's on top? Or is it etched? I can't quite tell...

Thanks all! 

The enclosure was etched with Copper Chloride in Aqueous Hydrochloric Acid Solution (Pool acid and hydrogen peroxide) there's a step by step tutorial here:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Stop-using-Ferric-Chloride-etchant!--A-better-etc/?ALLSTEPS

But any etching fluid works, the only reason I didn't use Ferric Chloride is because this one can be renewed and was much cheaper to buy!

There are a few tutorials around on how to etch enclosures but I used this one as a basic guide: http://www.aronnelson.com/gallery/main.php/v/MarkMs-Gallery/album24/

I drew the design by hand into corel painter on my girlfriends pen enabled touchscreen laptop (great for digital art, but I'm no artist! She was too busy to do a design for me this week..) and that's why the text is all in my handwriting . Inversed the colours and reversed the image for transfer onto the enclosure with PnP blue. (The image I used is attached here)

Once the resist layer had been transferred to the enclosure there were a few spots where the resist had not stuck, so I put some sharpie and then nail polish in those areas to touch it up (You can just use paint if you don't have any nail polish lying around). Now you can see on the finished enclosure those shiny / clean spots; that's where the nail polish and sharpie was.

What I think happened was that I etched for much much longer than was necessary, and the etching fluid ate away/ wore off some of the pnp blue resist but couldn't get under the nail polish which resulted in a very messy look for the enclosure! Not what I intended, but still not too bad for the first time! Once the etching is done you sand it back, spray some paint into the cracks and sand off the top layer!

super excited for this

+1 million, looks great! A challenge. 

First up, a big thanks to everyone on this forum! Each and every post has been enlightening, exiting and inspiring. Such a great community here!

This is my first ever pedal and technically my first ever non-kit (although I used a fabbed board) electronics project: The Mudbunny.

I built it to Green Russian Spec's and I have to say.. The sound that comes out of this thing is amazing! I might be a little biased because it came from my own soldering Iron but I've not played a nicer sounding pedal! Not that I have played anything except for BOSS and cheap Behringer's mind you..

I had a couple of issues which I thought was my soldering job on the switch wiring and I kept trying to fix odd things so its a little frankensteiny inside. Turned out that I forgot to earth the output jack and that the tip pins on the output jack were behaving weirdly so I had to connect both together even though it seemed they were already connected?
It also turned out that the guitar cable I was using had a short tip and wasn't sitting in the input properly; which led to much confusion when it wasn't working... But after a cable changeout everything was fine!

I etched the enclosure for what was probably too long, the darker bits are where pnp blue was, with the very clean spots being the areas I touched up with nail polish... The effect was not intended but it made for a very 'muddy bunny'  and I could probably get it out with a proper sander or something as it is not very deep. But I won't as I really like the look. Now I'm just looking for some very small knobs as none of the ones I have will fit! Any suggestions?

Big big big thanks to madbean and everyone and I'm sure I will be around here alot more Cheer's guys!