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Re: Let's see your finished DIY projects!
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 2:21 pm
by comtrails70
phantasmagorovich wrote:
My first pedal build: The Moody Fuzz DIY Kit.
The LED doesn't work, but I don't care. Sounds alright. I'm not overwhelmed by it though.
This is my first DIY project ever. I have her for like 3 years now. Built from scratch. All I bought was the tuners and the strings. Everything else is built by me. Without decent (meaning: electric) tools. But it was so much fun and I love it to death. It's also very versatile. You can make it sound like a crappy version of every stringed instrument you can think of. Right now I use it as a three-string Gu Qin since no decent ones are to be found in Germany.
Here's a sound clip of both things combined.
what kind of pick up is on the ciguitar? and what pedal is in the top left of that picture?
Re: Let's see your finished DIY projects!
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 3:41 pm
by phantasmagorovich
Very good Eyes Mr. Comtrails!
The pedal in the corner is this ChkChkBoom:
The "Schindluder" has a simple Piezo glued to the inside of the box. I think it is somewhere next to the middle - should be more or less where the label is scraped off. I wanted it to be in the middle, but with the neck-through construction that didn't work. I kind of plan on building another one and maybe building a pickup for it too. I remember back when I did research for this one I found nice trick for using a record player to wind the PU.
Re: Let's see your finished DIY projects!
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 4:09 pm
by LaoWiz
Finished a couple of boxes last week. These are reversed etched with ferric chloride. Shin-Ei Companion Fuzz/Ampeg Scrambler
Re: Let's see your finished DIY projects!
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 4:49 pm
by kosta
Looking good man!
Re: Let's see your finished DIY projects!
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 6:52 pm
by RossCanyonsofstatic
LaoWiz wrote:Finished a couple of boxes last week. These are reversed etched with ferric chloride. Shin-Ei Companion Fuzz/Ampeg Scrambler
Those are some killer enclosures...hope they sound as good as they look!
Re: Let's see your finished DIY projects!
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 7:55 pm
by LaoWiz
Thanks guys! I have only built 5 or 6 pedals and finishing the enclosures was always the hardest part. These came out pretty good. It was my first time etching and they came out a lot better than expected. I have gotten a lot better with wiring and soldering so now it's gonna be a lot more fun to whip out more. Both of these circuits sound sick. Gonna add a boost on the end of the Fuzzmaster, though. It's just below clean signal volume, but sounds awesome and nasty...
Re: Let's see your finished DIY projects!
Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 9:37 am
by moose23
I love the graphics on the scrambler.
Re: Let's see your finished DIY projects!
Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 10:03 pm
by LaoWiz
Thanks a lot Moose! I had a dreadful market research job in 1992 and would watch the clock second by second when making calls. Then I started to draw monsters. This was one of them. Kinda fun for a wacky pedal.
Re: Let's see your finished DIY projects!
Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 2:37 pm
by comtrails70
just finished this tremolo today.
Re: Let's see your finished DIY projects!
Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 3:20 pm
by phantasmagorovich
comtrails70 wrote:just finished this tremolo today.
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So many knobs on a trem. What so they all do?
Re: Let's see your finished DIY projects!
Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 4:06 pm
by Jero
comtrails70 wrote:just finished this tremolo today.
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Is that a tremulous? How did you do the heart? Stamp?
Re: Let's see your finished DIY projects!
Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 6:13 pm
by comtrails70
phantasmagorovich wrote:comtrails70 wrote:just finished this tremolo today.
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So many knobs on a trem. What so they all do?
Jero wrote:comtrails70 wrote:just finished this tremolo today.
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Is that a tremulous? How did you do the heart? Stamp?
regualr tremlo with depth,space,smoothness ..i forgot the rest
the heart is a linoleum cut
Re: Let's see your finished DIY projects!
Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 6:23 pm
by comtrails70
symmetry and speed
Re: Let's see your finished DIY projects!
Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 4:50 am
by phantasmagorovich
Very nice.
I was thinking about using linoleum as well.
Can I play that trem?
Re: Let's see your finished DIY projects!
Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 12:37 pm
by comtrails70
thanks
linoleum works ok.just have to get the right amount of ink on it.so it took quite a few tries.
i imagine screening is a better method.
yes you can play with it.
