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Did you really cram two 1/4" jacks and a power jack in the top side of a 1590B.  If so, you're my hero.

Pedal looks great, even with the bleeding.  I assumed it was intentional.

Sweet!  Glad to help.  I did the same thing testing my first pedal.  I felt like a total doofus until I kicked it on with cords in the right jacks and it ROCKED.

Make sure you're connecting your guitar to the input jack and your amp to the output jack.  That would result in the behavior you described, and you'd be surprised how often people get turned around when they're debugging a component-side-up circuit board.

You can figure this out with a multimeter in about 30 seconds.  If the jack is already wired into your circuit, disconnect the battery.  Now with the DC jack unplugged, test continuity between the leads.  The lead without continuity to either of the others is the sleeve (ground).  Now plug in the DC jack and test for VDC between the sleeve lead (ground) and each of the two remaining leads.  The lead with 9VDC on it is the tip, and the one with 0 VDC on it is the ring.  Good luck!

Great looking build!  I love the smaller pointy knobs with the visible 0-100 markers.  Did you do those yourself?