Are these Good Prices on PCB Board Blanks?

[mybloodyvalentine]

Hello Everyone,
       Sorry this is a re-post. I posted it nn the beginner project and the saw it was questions just related to the boost. I am new to the boards here and I am trying to stock up on some supplies and put a project list together. I found a place for PCB Board Blanks. I was wondering if this is the right material to use and if these prices were any good. I super excited about being a part of this great forum. I have been silently sitting back and reading and leaning for the last month. I have probably spent 200+ hours on here. I already have the sickness pretty bad. LOL. Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         -Matt-

So here is the pricing:
COPPER CLAD PC BOARDS

Standard Copper Boards made of 1 oz. copper (.0014")
on base of FR-4 reinforced fiberglass.

SINGLE SIDED
22-204...........2" x 4" .......................$1.45
22-250.......... 3" x 5"........................$1.95
22-260.......... 4" x 6"........................$2.60
22-261.......... 6" x 6" .......................$3.40
22-263.......... 6" x 9" .......................$4.90
22-264.......... 8" x 10"......................$6.25
22-212.......... 12" x 12"....................$10.35

DOUBLE SIDED
22-265.......... 4" x 6".........................$3.20
22-266.......... 6" x 6".........................$3.50
22-267.......... 6" x 9".........................$4.90
22-810.......... 8" x 10".......................$6.95 

[sixstringphil]

I bought some blank sheets from John Lyons on this forum. They're MUCH better quality and a better price than what I was buying at Radio Shack. And he'll cut them to whatever size you want....
http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=66371.0

[John Lyons]

Thanks for the plug phil!

Matt
That board thickness is very thin.
The stuff I use is .060 and some is .047. Most board thickesses that work well for pedals are some where in between those numbers.
Not that you couldn't use anything else but I like a nice stout board.

John

[bumblebee]

+1 for johns boards,they are better looking and cheaper than the stores i frequent!

[ConanB]

How many +'s can I give John? I still need to solder up the boards I got off him but they are ace and I can't wait to give them a try!

[PerroGrande]

+1 on John's boards.  I bought a few a while back, and they're excellent!

[mdh]

I'm sure John's boards are great, but I think it's worth mentioning that the thickness given in the OP's description is probably the thickness of the 1 oz copper, not of the board substrate.  1.4 thousandths of an inch is less than a twentieth of a millimeter, and even the "scissor cut" stuff that Electronic Goldmine sells is about 10 times thicker than that.  That said, I don't think the fact that it's FR-4 says anything conclusive about its thickness.

Could you tell us who the vendor is?  On the face of it, the prices seem pretty reasonable to me, but I would want to know how thick the fiberglass is.

[Michael Allen]

Check out ebay. I picked out 20 pieces of 10x12 double sided 1 oz for 20 bucks

[merc]

I agree with Michael.  I just received 10 NOS boards from ebay for $10, and that's shipping included.

[mybloodyvalentine]

Thanks for all the replies and suggestions. I am going to get them from John. It also helps some body on the forums and I know it will be a good quality product. John, I will follow up with you over the next week or so. I am going to actually buy a bunch of stuff to stock my bench. Also going to get a couple of boards from tonepad. I was thinking a couple of the Fuzz Faces so I could try the difference with silicon vs. germanium as well as Big Muff Triangle. To get my feet wet for the first project or two. Then I could try etching the boards.

The place I was looking if anybody is interested was
http://www.oselectronics.com/ose_p56.htm
They have a pretty sweet etching tank with a heater and pump. It says will heat etchant to 100F and boards take minutes. It seems pretty cheap for $40.00. Anyone ever tried this setup?

[mutagenic]

+1 for John's boards, good stuff!