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Here's my first Serendipity build with the AD712.  Fired up first time although I had to fix a grounding issue right away.  When I make a mistake, its always the wiring...lol.  For some reason, once I grounded the output jack it stopped buzzing (even though I grounded the input according to the diagram)  Color is Sparkle Red from PPP with white LED. (sorry about the poor quality pics, I used the camera on my old phone which was not good)   Sounds great, love the smooth quality it has-cool pedal.  Built this for a friend of mine, now gotta build one for myself   

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Decal looks good nice build!

Here's my fat boost from GGG.  Clean boost with some subtle thickness to it.  Everything to build specs.  Color is Gloss Black/Amethyst from PPP.  Now to finish my Glitterratti and Grapevine   

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Here's my brown sound in a box I built from general guitar...posted here since they don't have a forum.  Everything to normal specs...sounds good (cranked Marshall)    Color is Candy Red Vein from PPP. 

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Great Build! How do you go about getting PPP to drill the holes in those certain places like they did for you. I want to do that when I order my enclosure for my Aristocrat from PPP

Steve is right about PPP.  However, I drilled the holes myself.  I used the template provided in the build docs and copy pasted them into Word, where I changed the size to fit the actual size of my enclosure (not perfect but I was able to get it pretty close, within 1/16"-1/32").  You can see the size in inches by clicking on "format".  I printed it off and used the holes that I wanted and measured for the ones that weren't on the template.  I taped the paper template to a wood template and drilled the holes.  Now I have a durable template and drilling will be quick anytime I want that layout.  Do the setup work once if ya know what i mean

yeah, it's more greenish than blueish.  It still looks nice but I was a little disappointed in the color mostly because it was a lot darker than it looked and the metallic flakes that add sparkle are a lot smaller and less noticeable than what's pictured on the website

Here's my first madbean build.  It was a super tight squeeze to get everything to fit in the 1590B but i was determined and eventually got it all to fit.  I won't be trying it again though, since it was such a huge pain.  I wouldn't have bothered with space for a battery since i never used them but it was for a friend and i wanted to leave him the option.  My next sunking will probably be a 125 size if I want room for a battery.  Fired up the first time.  Only problem I encountered was to replace the "cpa" version chip with the "scpa" version to get rid of the whine.  I tried a bunch of diodes and prefered the bat41's although the differences were minor to my ears.  Sounds great...now to find time to build one for myself
First pic is a little blurry but I didn't realize it until I had already given it to my friend, but you get the idea.  Color is from PPP -gloss black/aqua illusion.

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Here's my finished Aristocrat that I built for my brother in law.  Thanks to those who helped me fix my grounding issue.  I probably won't be using the 3PDT wiring boards anymore since they didn't really save me any time.  The enclosure is from Pedal Parts Plus painted in gloss black/cherry.  I like the color of the KOT so I figured I'd do something similar.  It's hard to tell from the pic but the LED's are white and ultra violet.  I used a 250k gain pot for the right side (UV led), changed cap value for C1/C12 as per madbean's suggestion, and subbed 1n914's for the ma856's.  It sounds great!  I had a chance to compare my Aristocrat with a KOT that a session guitarist/producer friend of mine has and he liked mine a hair better.  Thanks for the great build!

Ryan

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Thanks, that's clear enough.  I seem to have everything working well now 

Guess i should have been more clear. 
Do I ground the output jack?
When I do, the unit does not shut off when using a battery and unplugging the input

I've noticed that when the output is Not grounded and I unplug the input cable, the pedal Does shut off.  What's up with that?

grounded the input jack and it fixed the buzz. 
Usually the output is grounded too, right?  When I ground it, turn the unit on and unplug the input cable, the LED's stay (using a battery for power).  Isn't everything supposed to shut off when input is unplugged to save battery life?

Thanks!

Just finished my sunking and it works great    The LED is real bright though.  which pad is the resistor for the LED so i can up that value?   R27?

I followed documentation (although it's only for the single sided etched version) and remember I'm using the 3pdt boards from small bear which of course changes how the switches are wired.  I guess I'm wondering when the 3pdt board has a spot for ground, is that connected from the ground spot on the board or the jack or both?

Update:  Since unboxing my project, I get what sounds like the bybass signal with lots of hum whether the effects is engaged or disengaged.