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I have never done anything remotely like that ... more than 30 times, well maybe more like 40.

Chuck

Oh my.

Chuck

Is that dual RAT even legal, moral, or ethical?  Cool and interesting stuff!

Chuck

Nice job.  Agree that you can spend a lot of time diddling with the knobs and switches. 

Chuck

That story is amazing!  The pedal ain't too shabby either.

Chuck

Got mine yesterday and populated it last night.  Cool idea but weird that the board is the BoM.

Chuck

Very cool, very neat and very well done!

Where did you find info on the Hybrid Fuzz Driver?

Chuck

Nice build.

Built a Rat thinking I had an LM308 in my stash.  Couldn't find it so I ordered an OP07 since 308s had suddenly become unobtainium.  While waiting I remembered I had a 308 in a Black Horse Meerkat that I wasn't in love with, so I pulled it and put it in the Rat.  Was really enjoying the Rat when the 07 came in so I popped it in the Meerkat just to see what happened - it was way better in the Meerkat than the 308.  Haven't got around to checking it out in the Rat.

Chuck

Seems a lot of work for a joke, but sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do.  And THAT IS REALLY FRICKING COOL!

Chuck

I'll second Metasphere's post and add that I've had a number of recent failures caused by bad electrolytic capacitors - especially the small versions.

Chuck

This Weener Wah II has been in my project pile for several years.  I got a little distracted several times when I bought supposedly non-working Cry Babies for parts  only to find that they did work to some extent so I spent time dinking around with them.  The shell for this one was from the first one I modified (very badly).  The shell was cleaned up and painted with the attractive flat green, the foot pad was cleaned and buffed up a bit  and I added an LED just in front of the switch.  The board was populated basically by the BOM using an On/On/On DPDT switch for the Whack, a Whipple inductor and a McCono pot.

Here's the outside:


And the guts (I initially wired the pot backward which was kind of neat but have since changed it to the correct way):


Chuck

Jon has an excellent demo on his site - https://jonpattonmusic.com/things-i-make/.  My gear is different and my style much heavier and clunkier than Jon's.

I messed with mine for about 45 minutes with my home built telecaster (Duncan Broadcaster set with 4-way switch) and stratocaster (Duncan SSL4s in the neck and middle, SSL5 in the bridge and Torres mid control) through a rather ratty looking Champ clone pushing a 10" Vox Bulldog.  With the Gain at 9 o'clock the Clipper Ship provides some nice boost with just a touch of warm grit (less with the tele than the strat), at 3 o'clock it gives a boat load of nice warm grit similar to my Madbean EggHead but a bit warmer and a touch smoother - more transparent than a Tubescreamer.  The hFE of my Germanium transistor is a little high if my meter is accurate and the diodes weren't tested - but they seem to work well.  Most of the transistor based boost/overdrives I've built have some noise just sitting there powered on - this one is dead quiet.

Chuck

Jon Patton's Clipper Ship on one of the new-ish Osh Park boards.  The Germanium transistor is a 2N1304 with an hfe of about 75.  Diodes are a pair of D9Es and another unknown Russian.  Originally planned to put this in a 1590A but mis-drilled my last box so I temporarily put it in a 1590B from another project that was disappointing.  This one is not disappointing!  I'll clean this one up, label it and redo the clear coat sometime down the road.

Here's the box:


And the guts:
 

Chuck

Very nicely done.

Our 17 year old Chihuahua's secondary name is Booger.

Chuck

Basically the Mini Vache is the Lavache with the boost permanently on and the diode clipping hardwired sized to fit in a 1590A.  The only changes between the stock Mini Vache and the "JTM specs" are the 2N5089 in place of the 2N3565 and BAT46s in D3 and D4.  The Lavache has different components but changing to the "JMT Specs" could be as simple as swapping the trannie to a 2N5089 since the BAT46s are already on board - that is rank amatuer eye-balling the BOM opinion not actual experience.

Chuck