Pedal or PCB manufacturing

[MmmPedals]

This may be antithetical to a "build your own stompbox forum" but a friend asked for my help so i figured i would ask you guys. He has a pedals design he would like to produce and is trying to figure the best way to do it on a small scale to start out. My thoughts are to either have the boards assembled (seen this service on futurlec) and find someone locally to assemble the final product or to find a company that could make them a-z in a batch of 100-200. I am totally in the dark in this area so any help would be appreciated.

[jkokura]

Try talking to Paul Marrosey. He does this kind of stuff.

Jacob

[amptramp]

Is his design the mechanical / artistic design or the electronic design?  I would suggest he does what he can do more efficiently than an outside vendor and leave the manufacturing steps he is not comfortable with to an outside vendor.  There are a number of vendors who supply painted or powder coated boxes.  There are some who can do silk-screening of painted boxes.  There are a number of vendors who can mass-produce circuit boards.  Some companies do the board stuffing (component soldering) as well as the board itself.  Making 100 to 200 would be a lot easier than selling 100 to 200 - he should have a business plan because he will be spending several thousand dollars on components but even more on marketing, to try and unload that many.