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I'd be down for a board!

The venerable ProCo Rat. When is a Rat clone no longer a clone and instead merely offspring. Should we not consider pedals like:
Ratified
Soothsayer
Gorilla Warfare
Skinner Box
Alpha Dog
Rattler
Rattler+
Black Secret
Iron Horse
Mr. Vermin
Retro-Sonic Distortion
Warthog
Lonely Robot
Tioga Road Cycling distortion
Shorebird
TYM Savage
TYM Toe Cutter
Reinhardt Willard
Earthbound Iron Pig
BYOC Mighty Mouse
DCW Muskrat
Greenhouse Effects No Brainer
Abominable Electronics Don's Shred Me / Deluxe
Acid Age Electronics Acid Pig
Beavis Audio Research FKR (Four-Knob Rat)
Big Ear Pedals Wood Cutter
Big Tone Music Brewery Classic Distortion
Blakemore Effects R.O.U.S.
Catalinbread Katzenkönig
Dunwich Amplification Volt Thrower
East River Touch Distortion
Freakshow Effects Rabbit (Various)
Fuzzrocious Cat King / Cat Tail
Hartman LM308 Distortion
Himmelstrutz Fetto Custom Distortion
Ibanez FC10 Fat Cat Distortion
IdiotBox Effects Blower Box Distortion
Jerms TAR Distortion
JHS All American Distortion
Landgraff Mo'D Distortion
Little-Bear R.ATTACK RT-2
Matthews Effects The Harbinger Parametric Distortion
Mojo Hand FX Socrates
Moose Electronics Battlehammer Distortion
Randale Pedale Blackout
Reuss Germanium Dirt
Roger Mayer Mongoose
Tortuga Werewolf
Vick Audio 85 Classic Rat
Zander Circuitry Cranium Dual Gain Distortion
As glorious offspring? The key to the tone of all the aforementioned is not in the circuitry but purely their genetics.

Congrats on the big step and good luck. I'll try and push some likes on Instagram, whenever I log in once every 3 months...

Apply butt stuff to the base of both Q1 and the base of Q3, as illustrated.

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The number one key component to a successful diy pedal build is butt stuff.
Once user has mastered that, they can fine tune the tone of the pedal with telekinesis. Using extra flux as needed.
The key to biasing a Zonk Machine has always been telekinetic butt stuff.

Got inspired and bought another Levys.
3.5 inch Simply Suede.
https://levysleathers.com/collections/leather-guitar-straps/products/simply-suede-series

On sale, only $30 shipped, no tax.(Now $40)
The site reads like only the 3.5 has suede backing...? I only have 3.5 straps(now my third or 4th) so not sure if this is truth or not.

These things are bulletproof and feel great once broken in. Just like a pair of good boots, they kinda conform to the wearer over time. They also drape over the horn nicely when not playing.

I put an old honing rod in the bench vise and ran the shoulder portion over it for a while to smoothe the leather grain down a bit more and just generally exercise it.  Very light pressure as to not eat at the stitching. Seemed to add a bit of flex to the new strap.

+1 on Levys
Excellent straps. You may want a strap lock washer though until it breaks in.

Nice!

I know 3 things:
1)Nothing about Fallout
2)your builds are always inspiring.
3)this one is no exception

Bravo. Waiting for the when you hit us all with a mixed media/method enclosure that somehow combines UV print, paint and laser

Very nice. Classic call back to the og art. I love the brassmaster circuit.
Make sure to give your son the blurb from the build doc about how the knobs interact.

Those were EOL 3 years ago. Very well could be a bit of oxidation by now.

1)try cleaning them with some isopropyl
2)could be ground plane sucking up heat.
3)like Jessenator said, lil flux

It very well could be the nature of the component as well. Maybe a thicker, more robust foil or something of the like that's being a heat sink.
Are these the caps they discontinued because they could get their magic foil any longer(along with the awesome QYX films)?

And, at least for me, on mobile I have to switch to desktop view to add photos as the reply button doesn't populate on the mobile page

Bobert has some
https://www.pedalpcb.com/product/6-6-1/

Thanks Brain!