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very nice Bio, rattle can finish? the color is great. I need to order some of those small knobs so I can put mine together.

Clean build and awesome wolverine graphic. Guardians approved!

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Thanks guys!

As much as I love the fact that it recreates my youth...is there any thought on how to tame the wild EQ?  I think that's the selling point of the original but also why it might have gone extinct.  Frank used it to great effect.  Me...not so much.

Not sure, I like it untamed and weird.  I'm imagining this being used in the studio for a unique lead tone.  BTW, thanks for the advice on this, it would have made a terrible combo pedal with an envelope filter 

mad props to you on the clean 1590a build. I'm not sadistic enough to do one. The scissor hinge is ingenious. 

They're actually not that bad once you get used to them.  You have to build a little more 3D than with a bigger enclosure.  I'm starting to like them more for overdrives in particular.  Mostly for the reduced space in my collection.

I don't like them in use either. I had some in the past and they always felt unstable on my pedalboard. I have a size 12 4E foot and I always felt like I was in danger of rolling an ankle stepping on one haha

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mad props to you on the clean 1590a build. I'm not sadistic enough to do one. The scissor hinge is ingenious. 

Very clean and impressive build. Must sound really nice!

Sharp as always. If you like this, you'll love the attack decay.


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Thanks Jimi, I gotta order parts for that. Also I have to do my layout for the artwork too as now I'm doing that first instead of after the pedal is done. I feel like I have a legit workflow now.

Very nice! Good to know with the subbing of trannies!

Next order from smallbear I will probably order a couple but for the time being this is good to go.

stayed home with the kids today and threw this together because I had a recycled enclosure from another project that was ditched and the holes lined up perfect so slow gear it was. Hit a snag on a couple bad 2sk30a jfets and looking at the specs of the original jfets landed on a 2n5485 and got a great range and smoothness to the envelope. what a cool effect really makes me want to put my attack decay board together.

That's awesome, at first glance I totally saw the usual Klon-type graphic 

Can you PIF me some of those napkins?

How many you need? Remember, anything can be toilet paper if your brave enough

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thanks guys, I'm working on a couple other things at the moment but its a little at a time. Got some 2 in one pedals coming down the pipe along with some delay and modulation stuff that should be fun.

Its been slow lately at building. The world has lost its mind turning into the walking dead, or is it the book of eli? Between taking turns with my wife staying home with the kids, homeschooling until mid april when school hopefully resumes and working in a hospital with confirmed cases of corona (i really can't escape it lol) I havent had as much time to build as I want. I snuck this pedalpcb klon centaur together the other day and boxed it up today. Sounds good, like the other klones I've had before. Swapping diodes but I don't think it makes that big a difference. Annoyed that a cat hair got stuck to the graphic when clear coating and pulled the toner off when i removed it but thats diy for ya.

Damn Dan, that is sick! This just shows practice and persistence is the key. And isn't the spirit box a really awesome sounding reverb.

Those look great!  I'm going to give the verde green a try on my next build.  Do you treat the enclosure before painting?  I've had bad luck with spay paint in the past, but I'm starting to get sick of the same enclosures.

my process is the following:  sanding the enclosure, usually with oribital hand sander. clean with whatever you have, i usually use alcohol or naptha. Prime with rustoleum primer, two coats. Three coats of hammered paint, sometimes four depending on color. 20 mins in convection toaster oven and apply graphics once cool. whole process takes about an hour . I have it down pretty good. After around 50 enclosures I splurged on the last tayda sale and ordered some powder coated enclosures. for odd size enclosures or certain colors I will still use hammered rustoleum.

Cool, thanks for the info.  What grit paper do you sand with?  What temp on the oven?

I use 100 grit just so it's even and the paint can grab. I use the lowest heat setting on the oven. 175-200 for 20 mins. To long or high and the paint starts burning or gets a wired texture.

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Those look great!  I'm going to give the verde green a try on my next build.  Do you treat the enclosure before painting?  I've had bad luck with spay paint in the past, but I'm starting to get sick of the same enclosures.

my process is the following:  sanding the enclosure, usually with oribital hand sander. clean with whatever you have, i usually use alcohol or naptha. Prime with rustoleum primer, two coats. Three coats of hammered paint, sometimes four depending on color. 20 mins in convection toaster oven and apply graphics once cool. whole process takes about an hour . I have it down pretty good. After around 50 enclosures I splurged on the last tayda sale and ordered some powder coated enclosures. for odd size enclosures or certain colors I will still use hammered rustoleum.

Wow, nice. How do you like the 440? I've built one myself.
You're building up quite the pile of pedals. Might be time to build a guitar or two.


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I'm out of the guitar game. I've had many over the years. 6 years ago I had around 22 and these all made the cut. I can only play one at a time anyways haha. If I did get anything else I'd probably get another gretsch, I miss my old one sometimes

I hear you, I don't even want to talk about how many I have, it's too many, I'll tell you that. Some of my favorites are the ones I've built though, it just goes hand in hand with building pedals.


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My tele, strat and jazzmaster are all parted together by me and I made them to the specs I wanted since I couldn't buy them like that. All my others are rewired and new pickups and all that. I went thru a pickup modding phase long ago where I swapped different magnets in them all, then different cap type values, learning to make bone nuts. I'm surprised it took me so long to start making pedals after years of modding/fixing my own amps