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You can use those collapsible outer extensions to put it on your keyring. Never loose a wah again!

Didn't they audition him?  He should be slapping himself for putting the inexperienced guitarist up in front of a crowd when he wasn't ready.  Pretty harsh...gee's...

You're quite right Paul.
As usual the actions say everything about the person who does it rather than the one who is on the receiving end.
Fundamental law of interaction studies...

Cool musical defibrilator...
Very noice, every ambulance needs one on board.

Super! Nice one, congrats to newly wedded couple...

Looking super! Like the throat n' tongue graphic.... you're not a surgeon are you...?

Sigh..... 

Thanks again for the kind words guys!

Merlin's beard, very impressive :-)
What did you mount the relay board on? Or is it just hovering in the air with a magic spell ?

Thanks Drolo, the relay board is held by the LED which is epoxied onto enclosure, also the wires keep it from moving. A construction that works well enough for me and hasn't given me any issues yet. Sometimes I secure the relay board with double sided foam tape or a little dollop of epoxy on the side to enclosure, but in this case that wasn't necessary at all.

It's all magic..!

Love the swirl!  Are you dipping them, or is there another way you're doing these? 

Thanks wgc, the method I use is somewhat similar to a tutorial that floats around the net, I think you need to google "Dragonfly's tutorial" or so ... in fact I just googled myself, here it is http://www.aronnelson.com/gallery/main.php/v/DRAGONFLY-LAYOUTS_0/TUTORIALS/HOWTO/
I also use acrylic paints for the effects and then topcoat it with several coats clear satin polyurethane. Of course you can use high gloss or envirotex or so, I just stuck with satin because fingerprints and dust etc show less.
Getting the right consistency of the acrylic paints is important, you gotta experiment with that. The good news is if you stuff up an enclosure and it looks meh you just hold it under water tap and wash off as acrylics are obviously waterbased. Start again.
I buy testpots of acrylic paint at hardware store, cheap and you only need a small amount as you dilute it with water anyway.
My best results of dilution is when it drips readily off a spoon when you take it out of mixing container. That's probably 2/3 paint and 1/3 water mixed in, but as said you'll need to experiment with your specific paints and how you find your way of messing it up in style  .
I don't have any photos of me doing it because the problem is that it's incredibly messy and I don't want a paintjob like that on my camera.... so need to find someone to press the button while I'm messing around.
If you guys are really interested I might try it somehow next time to take pics.
It's actually good childish fun to do the paint effect, just do it outside, old clothes on, rubber gloves and a smile and go nuts...

Lookin' super sharp! Tidy insides, great decal! Awesomesauce!

Thanks for the kind comments, guys!
Glad you like the squeeze....
If anyone is interested I have a spare Lovepedal Purple Plexi board left, 10 bucks shipped anywhere.

... well, probably 3 or 4 circuits with submini pots if you're SMD junkie like wgc or chuckbuick or stacking artist like juansolo.

I go instead for 2 today, that'll do me.
I'm not a huge Marshall fan yet you needs some in ya' life don't ya?
So rather than having two boxes and a bit of wasted space I'll get these two flavours of a similar hotrodded Marshall type of thing into one box and can select between them.
The bottom left circuit is a Lovepedal Purple Plexi on my own designed pcb, the top right one is a DAM Sonic Titan, again my pcb design (both pcbs oshpark fabbed).
Both circuits do the balls to the wall cranked screaming Marshall thing quite well I think.



And this is how I'll mount them in the box, put a DPDT switch to select between which one is active.





A bit of shoehorning, the DPDT is a bit burried away...



And the outside, ready to roar:

Nice one and yes I dig the rich red enclosure colour too! Tidy insides!

Very cool indeed!

The fakes were pathetic.  Someone had melted little pieces of glass and very crudely shaped them like a Ge diode.  They were all different shapes, but sort of diode-shaped.  They had also attached two wires to each one, on roughly opposite sides of each piece of glass.  And a black ring had been hand-painted round the glass.  So someone gathered together glass, wire, and paint, spent a little effort melting the glass and trying to shape it, sticking wires in it/to it, and hand-painting stripes on them, counting them, bagging them up, packing and shipping them.  No effort whatsoever to make them have any sort of electrical function.  Hundreds of them for a few cents each.  AND THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD MAKE MONEY DOING THAT!!!  That's the kind of thing that is hard to anticipate. 

Feckin' unreal...
Thanks for sharing your experience!

I bought high power MOSFETs for VVR tube amp circuits from Utsource on ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/380549593771?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
and they turned out to be re-labelled. They worked briefly and then went up in smoke, so obviously much lower speced ones for lower voltages, sold for better money as high spec ones.
PITA.

Wicked, that sounds indeed interesting...!

Well that's a bit of a wake up story...