My Breadboard / circuit tester jig & Red Llama build

[bluesdevil]

Finally wised up and ordered a breadboard. Got the "Wishboard" from Smallbear and made a face plate out of a stolen dining set chair.  Screwed it all too a piece of wood along with a battery clip. The face plate has the in/out 1/4" jacks, a DPDT swich wired to the jacks and enough holes for various pots and switches if needed.... should have done this a long time ago after seeing someone's website with the same thing.  
  The breadboard already saved me from wasting solder on the Fuzz Rite (already have a few pedals that sound like it) and was great for testing the Red Llama stripboard build without having to solder in pots, jacks and power supply. By the way, it fired up first try and sounds great..... thanks, for the layout Dragonfly!!!  A big fat natural sounding overdrive great for chunky chord work.  Running it into another overdrive or distortion should really boost the sustain for wailing leads.
      Decided to give vero/stripboard another shot, since I found a soldering iron with a fine tip and switched to thinner gauge solder (.31).... really a big difference from what I was using before.
      Here's a pic of the Red Llama stripboard wired up to the breadboard jig:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y189/bluesdevil/breadboard.jpg

    Just wanted to give a push to those who are debating on spending a few bucks on a breadboard and the little bit of extra effort to make a "jig" for it.

[chokeyou]

I'm glad to see all of these red llama clone verifications as of late. inspired me to conjour up a clone of it myself called the "Very Large Dead Llama". My parts from mouser are in the mail and will be here in 2 days, I'm also gonna give decals a shot for the first time, here's how i expect it to look in the end:



my only question about my layout is does anybody know if those way huge/EH style black knurled knobs w/ white lines fit and provide clearance on a Taiwanese 125B sized enclosure? I ordered them, but there was no indication to the diameter of the knobs and/or if the pointers will clear each other during rotation on the 2.4" wide enclosure.