How long does it take you to make a pedal from scratch?

[italianguy63]

The wall paint art is interesting too...

[duck_arse]

I still can't see the power switch even with the endo .....

[davent]

Yup, the little black tube is the unit, less then $13 US including shipping from some ebay China dealer. Needed better software and Oasis Scientific had a freeware webcam piece that fit the bill. The stand is a magnetic flashlight holder from Lee Valley tools. (Has four dimmable leds for those dark nether regions where the sun don't shine.)

[Guitar Gear Reviews]

Prototyping: HATE it!

Etching, Building , and wiring the PCB: LOVE it!!!

Enclosure work: LOATHE IT!!!  icon_evil

I find that the enclosure work is usually 60-70% of my total time. And I am not as OCD about the look as most!  Undecided

Some people have access to the tools to make it easy (screen printing, laser engraving, etc.) so I guess the enclosure work is quite enjoyable but, I do not. So, it is all grunt work for me!  icon_frown

Interesting, my favorite part is making the enclosure.  Then again, I am probably more OCD about the look than most 

I spend hours and hours drawing and redrawing circuits, sometimes going back and forth with my designs.  Then comes a week of waiting for parts and a day of building.

I seriously cannot stand leaving a build unfinished and will lose sleep before leaving my creations be.   

[Mustachio]

If its a kit like from GGG , I can build it in a night. That is with no graphics etc just bare box.

Everything else takes me a long time now. At least a month depending on what it is.

If the circuit is something thats already done and I dont need to draw anything new then 1 night to etch it and if I'm feeling peppy ill drill it that night too. If I'm drawing up a pcb from scratch it takes me a while to test debug bread etc. /ETA= ?

Another night to populate the pcb and wire off board connections.

And the enclosure is a whole new set of maybe's , I can usually make an enclosure from scratch now in a day or 2. But that's with a pre-designed template I made prior. Although that didn't take long, 30 minutes in sketchup.

But thats just the enclosure not drilled painted etched or anything, If etched add another day, If painted then sticker graphics under an epoxy clear coat maybe a week, if airbrushed even longer depending on the detail maybe a month on top of everything else!

[Jdansti]

>I seriously cannot stand leaving a build unfinished and will lose sleep before leaving my creations be.   

I used to do this too. I normally can't stand to put anything down that I'm working on. I've forced myself to break my projects up into smaller chunks. It's a psychological trick to feed my "got to finish" OCD. Now I'm satisfied by finishing the stuffing chunk, then finishing the soldering chunk, etc. God help me though if I'm still trying to finish a chunk at midnight!  I might not get to bed until 3am! 

[Canucker]

When I was doing a bunch of stuff last summer I'd be working on five projects at a time...only makes sense when your etching your own boards. I didn't stress to badly about the "I must finish this" until I was at the end and if I had to trouble shoot...then I got really stressed out with the I must figure this out!