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Amazing!

Congrats! You more than succeeded on that one. The graphic is a really cool take!

So freaking cool!! Is that a 1590b? It looks cavernous in there.

125b was the right size canvas for this one. You're right. An embarrassing amount of space in there. I should probably have put a couple discreet opamps in there to make it legit.

This is amazing. What a weird idea to even come up with in the first place, never mind seeing it through to completion!

I'm pretty good with weird ideas. Initially I wanted to use real wood veneer and inlays. That could be cool but possibly even weirder.

That's awesome!  How'd you get the strings to stay in place when you poured the resin?

I bought a Cricut for my wife a while ago, pretty cool all the stuff she does with it.  She's done masks for etching glass and metal, so, enclosures should be no problem 

Oh yeah. I forgot to talk about that part. So I would tack one end with a dab of UV cure resin, stretch the string straight and tack the other end. The UV stuff just pretty much disappears under the envirotex.

Wow! That is really something else. I was looking at the image going "How's he get it so 3D looking?" And then I read your description - that's awesome.

So you like the cricut? I was thinking of getting one to make die cut stickers I could use as painting masks. Would you suggest it for something like that?

I think that's a great use for it. I have wondered if it would be a good acid resist for enclosure etching too.

That looks amazing. I need to give that a try

That came out super nice! I really like the way the graphic came out.

This is an idea I've had for a while and finally got around to making it happen. The circuit is just a little overdrive I do. I've used it in a lot of these art builds. The fretboard is just a graphic of some rosewood I found and I added some dot inlays and took measurements off of a guitar neck to get the right fret spacing. I printed in some drop shadows under the frets to add a sense of depth. The frets are some chrome sticker material I cut on my cricut. The strings are STRINGS! It's a real set of 9s under the resin.

This pedal goes to a really close friend who will find it on his desk tomorrow morning as a surprise. He will put it to good use and make lots of good sounds with it.

Thanks for giving' 'er a look

I'm still working on other projects right now but I'm thinking this could well be my method for signal generator and bench amp moving forward. They won't live at the bench but pretty dang portable and lots of tonal options.

I'm doing okay as far as clutter. Cleaned up a bit today and rescued three FV-1 from old builds. One freshly installed on the (just so happens) three new FV-1 projects I'm working on.

Also got a new storage bin since I was completely out of space for project PCBs. mbp now has more projects that at any time, even considering all the ones that have been discontinued.

You FFX guys with your silver face bench amps. I think pedal peddling is just a cover you use with your wives to buy sweet amps. "Honey, don't think of it as a test amp. Think of it as our little silver goose that lays golden eggs."  "By the way, sweetie, no one will take us seriously if we're not checking our circuits through an old plexi."

I'll see your minor messes and raise you a red-hot dumpster fire:

You have a Princeton reverb for your bench amp? That's all I see. That's upscale

OK, here's my AFTER pic. I hereby give myself permission to start a new mess.

I'm definitely guilty... piles to the left, and piles to the right

Some heavyweight headstocks in that pic! I also notice the can of deoxit. Magic elixir. I have those same calipers and I still use them even though I have a proper digital set now. And that's too many capos.

I have stashed or recovered parts that have been given to me by a friend who has been into electronics for years. There's a particular smell to them! Old rosin? Mojo? Don't know what it is but it's real.

Thanks guys. This is therapeutic. I did make some progress on my setup. I should have it all cleaned up this weekend. I'll post a pic.

Daaaamn, there was a guitar under all that!

Hahahaha!!!!

This evening:

That tele looks sweet. I have an LPB strat with maple fretboard. Fraternal twins.

I was in the same spot this weekend.  My bench has gotten away from me the last couple of months, so I did a little cleaning as well.  Its amazing how a clean bench gives a new outlook on things.

This is what I'm after

For some inexplicable reason I seem to have gone the opposite direction since lockdown (had more time on my hands back then I guess).  Previously yours and mine would have looked about the same.

Bravo!

With the way the interiors of your pedals look, are put together, this is allowed.

My secret is to clean interiors is to rip all the junk out of the pedal guts and scatter it all over my bench.