MetHell ... my Chunk Chunk, my first etched enclosure

[Vallhagen]

Hi again forum.

First: Thanx to Guitarmageddon, whos threads inspired me to try out some etching. And thanx to Juansolo and Marauder for sharing some very useful info on how to trim this box. And thanx to everyone who has posted a picture of your chunkchunks on here. It is VERY useful to browse around and view how u solved the wiring and drilling etc... I concidered to "simplify" the wirings by interconnecting some pot lugs directly, but giving it a second thought; i dont think it would have been simpler. Or less "messy". So... it turned out the way it is right now.

I chose 2n5457 jfets. I breadboarded a JFET matcher, measured all JFETs and set the trimmers (drain voltages) as calculated from the measured result (always closer to 6V than 4.5V). Plug n play... sounds just great.

A bit poor photo quality (?), but you can see how it looks:) The etching part was fun!

Cheers
Bengt
Sweden

[night-B]

Congrats! Your etch is beautiful!

[alanp]

Agreed, that's some nice art.

What font did you use for 'distortion'? It reminds me a bit of the Commodore 64...

[sgmezei]

Simply put, BADASS!

[Haberdasher]

heck yeah man, that looks great.

[lincolnic]

Digging the 8-bit "Distortion" font.

[Vallhagen]

Thank you guys. As it comes to enclosure design, i guess this one is a bit more ambitious than my earlier more pünky builds.

The "Distortion" font is MD Thaitype A which i stretched a bit sideways

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I also like to pass on some useful links i got from marauder, Juansolo, Guitarmageddon:

On JFET matching: http://runoffgroove.com/fetzervalve.html
, http://www.geofex.com/article_folders/fetmatch/fetmatch.htm

On etching enclosures: http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=80962.0

Cheers:)

[bigrigg]

Great looking build and I love that name.  Throw the horns in the air!!

[juansolo]

Looks great, glad we could be of help.

[Vallhagen]

Looks great, glad we could be of help.

You were indeed of good help:) Thanx again!

Great looking build and I love that name.  Throw the horns in the air!!

Yessir... Up The Horns! \../