First box etched and GGG kit review

[John Lyons]

I made the BSIAB2 Kit for a friend who bought one.
I took a look at markm's etching gallery details  to see what he recommended there.
The I used design wouldn't be my choice but my friend wanted the "beast" from X-men.

I used a piece of 1/4 plexiglass and wet sandpaper approach to getting the box top flat.
I used 80, 120, 220, 320, 400 and 600 grits and then #0000 steel wool, Acetone and then the Toner transfer.
I brushed on the Ferric Cloride with a small artists brush.
I could have gone a bit deeper with the etching but my toner started to flake a bit.

I painted the box lightly with flat black and then sanded the top back to the bare aluminum after the box was baked for 30 minutes to dry the paint. The etching turned out well I though. I used a slightly ragged font to match the comics look.
There are a couple boogers but it came out pretty good I'd say.
I clean coated with satin lacquer and then polished that with the steel wool and then buffed with soft cloth.








The Kit was from GGG as a said. Tight build compared to what I'm used to!
The in/out Jacks and DC jack fit to within a 1/16th of an inch!
A hair more and the DC jack  wouldn't work. The wire and parts are high quality, the caps were all Panasonic film and even a polystyrene! The reistors are all 1% Metal film. The box was well drilled and everything fit right. I nice little kit!

Of course the sound of the BSIAB2 is great. Tight focused and full, lots of gain and harmonics a plenty.
Recommended!

John

[96ecss]

Great work, the box looks awesome.

Dave

[tungngruv]

Like I said before John, is there anything you can't do? Seriously, good looking pedal.

[Cardboard Tube Samurai]

Yeah, that's hot as hell!!!

[markm]

Very nice work John.....turned out Excellent!! 

[John Lyons]

Thanks folks! As I said, it was the first one so the others will be better. There were a couple mess ups but I had to get over the learning curve here. Those blemishes bug me!!

I have been looking into copper plated boxes as well. There is a kit for sale for about $50 that will do a bunch of boxes. I think you can do nickel and a couple more plattings as well. Tarnished or dulled copper would be great!!! There uis another thread here about that...

Funny cause this box is half ( or less) the size of my usuall wood enclosure builds. Good for my learning though, getting all those fittings and parts to work.

Thanks for the great gallery of etching Mark!

[Cliff Schecht]

Yeah man that etch looks really nice. I'm thinking about trying the case etching process myself, I've been meaning to try it for a while. I'm going to do something on my ring modulator first actually, I've never gotten around to painting the case and while the dull aluminum color that Hammond's come in fits the device, I think I could be a bit more creative.

[$uperpuma]

WOOO! Another GREAT etch.... beats my first try all to heck....