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This works for some places but I have to say it doesnt work for Smallbear. I have lost quite a few carts because it seems to reset after a while. I always take a screen shot of my temp cart at Smallbear now.

Yes, I learned this about the Small Bear shopping cart the hard way as well....

Log in, add it to yours and leave it. When you go to order things, it will be there.

Actually, I did that initially with a few parts, but then removed them.   I have a giant spreadsheet with all my projects in it and I create Mouser BoMs from it.  When I decided to order the necessary parts for a dozen more projects, I started the cart over again with my spreadsheet BoM, so I wasn't double ordering....

Earlier today I made a Mouser project called "Stuff I Forgot"

Okay, so I'm pretty new to pedal building.  A few months ago, I planned out about a dozen projects and made my first round of part purchases from Mouser, Small Bear, etc. etc.  Got through a half dozen builds or so, no problems.  Then I started a build of a Tube Screamer type project, and found that I had neglected to order 510k resistors.  Yes, I know I could combine resistors, but wanted the build to be clean, so figured I'd put it aside and come back to it down the road.  I started another build at random, and sure enough that one also needed 510k resistors. So I took it as a sign from on high, and figured I'd order them.  But I'm not going to order just 510k resistors,  because if I'm going to pay the grand sum of $7 for shipping, I'm going to make it count, right? So I embark on planning out the next phase of pedal builds, and all the additional parts I'll need, which then turns in to ordering a bunch of stuff not only from Mouser, but Small Bear, Tayda, and so on.

So I'm going through my Mouser shipment, eager to get back to my Tube Screamer, and guess what I forgot to include on the order.....Yes, you guessed right - 510k resistors.

I've done a lot of carpentry, and as the old saying goes: measure twice, cut once.  Pedal building is similar.  But now I've got to remember to apply the same rule to ordering stuff.  Check your work 

I placed an order at Small Bear this past weekend for about $130.  Naturally, the next day I noticed that I'd left a couple things off. So I emailed them and asked could they please add these items to my order?  They got to back to me yesterday and said no problem. Today, then sent an updated confirmation, and told me not to worry - no extra charge for these items!
Needless to say, I was completely blown away by this extraordinary level of customer service.  I just started making pedals, and this is only my second order with them, which makes their response even more impressive to me. 

I'd guess that others on this forum have had similar experiences, so this won't be a revelation to anyone. But I wanted to give a shout out to Small Bear anyway.  What a great company!

Wow...just, Wow....

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Which clipping settings do you prefer?

Hi Kevin - I slightly favor the Hard Clip switch "up" and the Soft Clip switch "down".  I would assume this means HC is 'high' and SC is 'low'.   I've only played through it with humbuckers. I haven't tried it with single coils yet.  I only really turn up the amp when I'm home alone - which isn't too often - so I still have a lot of experimenting to do.  I've been spending more time pedal building than playing lately.   

I'm thinking about trying out the 250k gain pot you mention in your build docs - but that'll be down the road.

That is some seriously nice work, especially for your first few builds.  Welcome to forum. 

Thanks. You're too kind!

And one more....
Another Aion Project - this is the Horizon, based on the Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret.  Since the DLS is supposed to give a Marshall stack tone, I figured I'd do a British Flag graphic for the pedal.  I like the sound of this pedal a lot as well.

I've done a couple others from Aion, including the Aurora compressor and the Azimuth projects which are shown in the last photo.  The Aurora is a Ross/Dyna Comp derivative, but I did the graphics sort of like the Keeley compressor.  I made this one for a family friend who gigs who needed a compressor.  The Azimuth is based on the Zendrive, so the look is inspired by that.

Here's another build.  This was my 4th pedal, an Aion Cerulean, based on the Bluesbreaker pedal.  I had watched a video from That Pedal Show on Bluesbreaker-based pedals, and I really really liked the Keeley 1962x, so I mimicked the Keeley design for the pedal graphic which I think is great.  Of the dirt pedals I've built so far, this is my current favorite.

Again, a shout out to Kevin at Aion for nice PCB designs and excellent build docs.

I started building pedals about 2 months ago, and have completed a few so figured I'd post the builds here.  Although I'm not sure it's smart to post after pickdropper - he's an impossible act to follow!

This is the first pedal I completed - an Aion Procyon, which is a clone of the BJFe Honey Bee.  Kevin's projects and build docs are great, especially for noobs like me.

I sourced the parts from Mouser and Small Bear.  The enclosure is an orange anodized finish from Pedal Parts Plus.  The finish is very cool, but way too rough for water slide decals as I learned the hard way.

I think I spent more time on the label than I did building the pedal.  I didn't know what "Procyon" meant, so I looked it up and saw it's a star system in the constellation Canis Minor.  So since Canis refers to dogs/wolves, I figured I'd use a Wolf graphic on the pedal.  (And by coincidence, I stumbled across a thread the other day that showed pickdropper's pedal board - and he had built a pedal with the same graphic.)

I'm going to re-do the label with black vinyl decals in the near future.

The pedal sounds really good.

I'm strictly a bedroom player now, but I love experimenting with the different tones you can get from various pedals and trying to replicate the tones of the great guitarists I've loved listening to since I was a kid.

Beautiful!