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Title: MetHell ... my Chunk Chunk, my first etched enclosure
Post by: Vallhagen on June 07, 2012, 09:53:08 PM

Hi again forum.

First: Thanx to Guitarmageddon, whos threads inspired me to try out some etching. And thanx to Juansolo and Marauder for sharing some very useful info on how to trim this box. And thanx to everyone who has posted a picture of your chunkchunks on here. It is VERY useful to browse around and view how u solved the wiring and drilling etc... I concidered to "simplify" the wirings by interconnecting some pot lugs directly, but giving it a second thought; i dont think it would have been simpler. Or less "messy". So... it turned out the way it is right now.

I chose 2n5457 jfets. I breadboarded a JFET matcher, measured all JFETs and set the trimmers (drain voltages) as calculated from the measured result (always closer to 6V than 4.5V). Plug n play... sounds just great.

A bit poor photo quality (?), but you can see how it looks:) The etching part was fun!

Cheers
Bengt
Sweden

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10190945/MetHell/001.JPG)
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10190945/MetHell/002.JPG)
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10190945/MetHell/006.JPG)

Title: Re: MetHell ... my Chunk Chunk, my first etched enclosure
Post by: night-B on June 07, 2012, 09:59:26 PM

Congrats! Your etch is beautiful!

Title: Re: MetHell ... my Chunk Chunk, my first etched enclosure
Post by: alanp on June 08, 2012, 03:00:47 AM

Agreed, that's some nice art.

What font did you use for 'distortion'? It reminds me a bit of the Commodore 64...

Title: Re: MetHell ... my Chunk Chunk, my first etched enclosure
Post by: sgmezei on June 08, 2012, 03:07:09 AM

Simply put, BADASS!

Title: Re: MetHell ... my Chunk Chunk, my first etched enclosure
Post by: Haberdasher on June 08, 2012, 03:36:05 AM

heck yeah man, that looks great.

Title: Re: MetHell ... my Chunk Chunk, my first etched enclosure
Post by: lincolnic on June 08, 2012, 04:59:23 AM

Digging the 8-bit "Distortion" font.

Title: Re: MetHell ... my Chunk Chunk, my first etched enclosure
Post by: Vallhagen on June 08, 2012, 05:59:38 AM

Thank you guys. As it comes to enclosure design, i guess this one is a bit more ambitious than my earlier more pünky builds.

The "Distortion" font is MD Thaitype A which i stretched a bit sideways

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I also like to pass on some useful links i got from marauder, Juansolo, Guitarmageddon:

On JFET matching: http://runoffgroove.com/fetzervalve.html
, http://www.geofex.com/article_folders/fetmatch/fetmatch.htm

On etching enclosures: http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=80962.0

Cheers:)

Title: Re: MetHell ... my Chunk Chunk, my first etched enclosure
Post by: bigrigg on June 08, 2012, 04:39:43 PM

Great looking build and I love that name. Throw the horns in the air!!

Title: Re: MetHell ... my Chunk Chunk, my first etched enclosure
Post by: juansolo on June 11, 2012, 11:46:51 AM

Looks great, glad we could be of help.

Title: Re: MetHell ... my Chunk Chunk, my first etched enclosure
Post by: Vallhagen on June 12, 2012, 06:51:55 PM

Quote from: juansolo on June 11, 2012, 11:46:51 AM
Looks great, glad we could be of help.

You were indeed of good help:) Thanx again!

Quote from: bigrigg on June 08, 2012, 04:39:43 PM
Great looking build and I love that name. Throw the horns in the air!!

Yessir... Up The Horns! \../

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