Sacrilege - Fuzz Face in a Tone Bender case. Fuzz Bender?

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Sacrilege - Fuzz Face in a Tone Bender case. Fuzz Bender?

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Hi guys

first build for me in quite a while; been on vacation and also had a lot of work on.
This is a build for my Dads 62nd birthday. In previous years Ive made him the odd pedal. This is definitely the coolest!
Its a fuzz face on a pedal parts PCB board, using gain matched (around 190hfe) BC108b metal can transistors.
I added 47pF smoothing caps just in case, and the output cap is 100nF rather than 10nF.
Its NPN, negative ground. I decided to keep it vintage and not add a power jack.
Case is a heavy (~1kg) Tone Bender mk1 enclosure from Pigeon FX in the UK.

Total build cost around £40. Sounds really good to me at least.

Here is the good stuff:

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Cute.
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Looks great man, good work. I wanna get one of those enclosures, they just work out to be a little expensive over here after shipping. I want to make myself another MK1.
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Haha, that pcb in that case!
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goroth wrote:Haha, that pcb in that case!

this :lol:
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Nice build man, Love the idea!
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Uncle Grandfather wrote:
goroth wrote:Haha, that pcb in that case!

this :lol:


Of course :)
I'm making a second one but on vero... Way more mojo that way.
I wanted a pcb so I could populate it rapidly for the birthday present idea between work travel. :thumb:
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I love those enclosures, but $57AUD including shipping is STEEP.
Nice work man, I think your Dad will be very very stoked.
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Thanks!

The enclosures are literally 2.5x the cost I would typically spend on a Hammond pre cast but it's really heavy weight quality steel item. Justified in this application :)
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Think of all the goop you could fit in that enclosure. :lol:
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Nice!

Gigahearts_FX wrote:Total build cost around £40.


Presumably excluding the case?
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Gigahearts_FX wrote:
Uncle Grandfather wrote:
goroth wrote:Haha, that pcb in that case!

this :lol:


Of course :)
I'm making a second one but on vero... Way more mojo that way.
I wanted a pcb so I could populate it rapidly for the birthday present idea between work travel. :thumb:


It is my dads 70th birthday tomorrow. I would get my dad one of them as a gift. But he would probably tape a stick to it and use it to play golf with. :lol:
It must be awesome to have a dad cool enough to rock the fuzz though. Are you gonna have a birthday fuzz jam session with him? :cool:
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Nocentelli wrote:Nice!

Gigahearts_FX wrote:Total build cost around £40.


Presumably excluding the case?


No, total.

Case £25
Pcb £5
Parts on pcb £3
Switch and jacks £5
Wiring £1
Knobs £1
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