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If you want a cheap solution, Home Depot carries a Weller for $17 or so that comes with one of the small tips that I usually use (IIRC, it also comes with a big tip).

Is the sharkfin a take on the Maestro FSH?

My four year old will be done with school next week, but that also means my wife will be done with work through the summer so I might actually get more done.

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AllenM: For prefabbed PCB, would this work for you?

I could swear that I've seen someone post a working build of this project. I thought it was on the BYOC forum, but can't find it.

I'll side-mount pots if there's only one or two, and I have a graphic I really really like.

I wanna make a "real" tape delay. That ought to be wicked complicated. 

I saw a few old units that used blank 8-track tapes as the recording/playback medium. Maybe an old but working 8-track machine might be a good starting point. Hmmmmm.....

Potential derail: I can't remember which thread exactly, but somewhere on the BYOC forums I saw a project that lets you use a 3-head cassette deck as a tape delay, with a pedal to control the settings...I want to say it was a Craig Anderton project, but it's not in Electronics Projects for Musicians. I thought I had the info saved on my hard drive, but I can't find it now.

IIRC, it's in Anderton's "Guitar Player Presents Do-It-Yourself Projects for Guitarists"

Awesome.

Mike from Milwaukee, WI.

I'm lucky it's sold out. I've already got three and a half loopers, but at this price was tempted to pick up another.

EHX has this new pedal that functions like a sequencer for expression pedals.

(EHX 8 Step Program)

First off, this makes me want to build expression inputs into all of my pedals.

Secondly though, it seems like it should be possible to make this create a simple stutter effect for guitar. Originally I thought I could just wire it in like a volume pot, but I tried that and it didn't work... But, now I'm think that at the very least, it could control the rate of one side of an LDR, with the other side controlling guitar volume. Could I just replace a rate pot on a tremolo-type circuit with a connection for the 8 Step? Any other ideas?

I've liked what I've heard by them. With the recommendations above, I think I'll buy the rest of their stuff.

Personally, I like starting any new area with a kit, but if you're really comfortable with a schematic, it's worth a shot to try it without.

If you have trouble getting to it, type byocelectronics.com/ then click on the forum link.

I flipped the 78l05 around and replaced IC3 and know everything works.

Thanks for the help guys!