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Brian, I'm not super great with any of that, but I've had to fix my fair share of forum problems over the years, I'm more than happy to lend a hand in any way I can, should you need it.

You probably have got a handle on it, but if a second set of eyes help you flesh out the problem, give me a holler.

Space turtle. She must be a Steven King fan!

Kidding aside, that looks fantastic. I can't wait til my daughter is old enough to start doing that for me.

That is frigging awesome.

Thanks! I think you guys might be being a bit generous, but heck, I'll take it.

BLMS enclosures are actually pretty nice, IMO. So are the knobs he claims are of inferior quality. If I were selling the pedal I wouldn't use them, but for my own stuff, heck yeah. He ships so frigging quickly, too. I like ordering from him the best, by far. I wish his store were slightly bigger because of it.

Has anybody used this app yet? Seems really cool from what I've used so far. It'll be nice to have something I can tinker with on my phone when I'm not at my computer.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theophrast.droidpcb&hl=en

Thanks, SmoothAction!


Just fyi for anybody interested in envirotex, I bought this toaster oven to help bake it and the paint. It came out soooo much better. It has a "bread cupboard" style opening, so its got tons of room to get the pedal in and out without worrying about bonking it on anything. So worth the $35 investment if you plan to go envirotex.

http://www.target.com/p/hamilton-beach-4-slice-easy-reach-oven-gray-31334/-/A-14563456#prodSlot=_1_4

That is a sweet looking little oven. That would be nice for powder coating.

Yep, that is another reason I bought it, I'd like to try my hand at that sometime. Just gotta talk the wife into letting me buy the stuff

Thanks, SmoothAction!


Just fyi for anybody interested in envirotex, I bought this toaster oven to help bake it and the paint. It came out soooo much better. It has a "bread cupboard" style opening, so its got tons of room to get the pedal in and out without worrying about bonking it on anything. So worth the $35 investment if you plan to go envirotex.

http://www.target.com/p/hamilton-beach-4-slice-easy-reach-oven-gray-31334/-/A-14563456#prodSlot=_1_4

Amazing job, Ben. I love your implementation. Your ET came out perfect! Way better than mine. Haha! Beautiful wiring too!

Thanks Lee. I really appreciate the encouragement. I had to redo the ET a few times, so it better have come out well, haha.

I forgot to post a new thread with my 2015 builds. Nothing special, I started building around the beginning of the year, so these are all definitely noob builds.

Here is an Acapulco Gold clone. I liked the build, it was my first vero build, and the circuit is great. I need to build another, as I bought enough for 2, and hopefully I can dial out some of the things I don't like about it. This has an added gain pot, too. I've since bought some with connected rows, as I'm wondering if some of the problem is I'm missing a connection someplace since I only had pad per hole. I'm almost positive that's my problem, actually. I put the art together with clipart I found in inkscape. I ended up having to change the knobs for slimmer ones because the "gain" label was covered up by the one I had on there. Measure better next time.











Next up is a Retrograde and a Fuzz Face from Pickdropper (he makes awesome boards, btw.) This one was very unintentionally messy. I didn't plan it out properly and the wires ended up everywhere. It all works, and sounds great. I've since bought 5 or 6 different types of PNP's for it, and have the fuzz face dialed in really nicely. I also moved the bias knob off board, as the circuit has a trimpot spot for it.









At that point I wasn't brave enough to try for any sort of finish, so bleh.

Last up, or first I should say as this was my first official build, is a weener wah.







That's everything from last year! Here's to more, and thanks to all you guys for all the help.

Nice. That's really clean. I'm hesitant to try a 1590A build, I think it would drive me nuts.

Hun, that's amazing, what's it do exactly?

So basically its an easy way to put pots into a circuit on a breadboard, veroboard, etc. It's got a lot of the most common ones in it, so that way I don't have to wait for an order to arrive to test them. Pop one in, if I don't like it, change it around. Leevibe's original design had a rotary switch at the bottom to select which row you'd be using, but I just wired in individual test leads of each row.

So my real idea for using this is for example, I'm putting together another retrograde right now, and it needs a 500ka, and a 1kb, so instead of soldering pots in, and having a super unweildy mess of wires to test, I can do it all contained in this box. Just put the proper pots in their spot, and adjust them as needed.

It'll be easy enough to try out, you're right! Thanks again.

Thanks guys!

Kresol, no I didn't put a ground in. I was going to try and see if just using the enclosure-jack as a ground would be enough or not. You're thinking it won't be enough? Or do you mean from the DC jack to the enclosure? Because, yes, I did forget that part. 

This took me an insane amount of time. I had to redo the enclosure once, repaint it probably 4 times, and I kept ordering wrong, or forgetting things. Needless to say I learned a lot. I had enough room on the bottom to move my test rig into, so now its kind of an all-in-one rig tester.












My envirotex pour came out really nicely I thought:



I have each row with individual breadboard jumpers so that I can have as many as 5 pots at a time. I'll never need that many, nor will each row necessarily line up to what I need, but that is okay. The wires are messy, and I have some ideas on how to clean them up, but for now the book is closed on this one. All in all a really fun build, and thanks to Leevibe for sharing his OSHpark boards for this.

I painted it too dark the last time around. I was in a hurry to get it done, and it started snowing on me, and I just was too heavy with the trigger finger. Here is how I intended it to come out; much more visible than what I ended up with:


(That was my first attempt before I figured out my envirotex pour was too soft.)