As long as we’re doing old school: Gus Face

[soggybag]

This is a PCB for Gus Smalley's Gus Face.

[antonis]

Ahaaa.. !!

New school desktop mill..?? 

[vortex]

Gus is the Rodney Dangerfield of stompbox design.

I can't figure out why, it just isn't right!

[soggybag]

That first board had a couple issues, all in the design, hopefully I've taken care of them in this version. While I had the mill set up I used the rest of the board to mill a Vulcan and a Smash Drive.






Hopefully these will work I'm still learning Eagle and the process of manufacturing boards on the mill. The Fuzz Face and the Vulcan use a ground plane. The smash drive uses a ground trace. I notice the mill treats these differently. With the ground plane it relies on the 1/64" bit, which looks pretty fragile. With a ground trace it does more work with the sturdier 1/32" bit. The ground trace was harder to layout.