Wood finish enclosures

[EBK]

I'd also make sure the locking notch on the footswitch faces south, but let's not go there...   

Interesting.  I happen to be a North Notchian.

[duck_arse]

how did you do the brickwork on this? also, a rundown on you wood types, please, and where did you find the stripey wood?



this one has given me a few ideas.

[bluebunny]

Interesting.  I happen to be a North Notchian.

Aaaaaaagh!!!   

[rutabaga bob]

Isn't that 'stripey wood' oak?  Hardwood flooring in houses is oak...

[willienillie]

Storyboardist used oak.  But no oak in mtdelcon's builds.  His "stripes" are maple, walnut(?), and...mahogany?  The brick look could have been done with a router and stain, but the grains tell that these are individual blocks.

[mtdelcon]

sorry i've been offline for a few days.  crazy busy at work.
the three builds i posted use a combination of cherry, maple, and walnut.  I'm not sure which you mean by the stripey wood.
to build the brick pattern, i first glued up three strips of cherry (the first two 1" thick, the third 1/2"  thick) with two strips of maple (each 1/8" thick) in between (so 1" cherry, 1/8" maple, 1" cherry, 1/8" maple, 1/2" cherry).  when that dried, i cut it into 5/8" slices along its width for a total of 6 slices, and then glued it back together, but flipping every other slice 180 degrees and gluing new 1/8" strips of maple in between each slice.  it's easier to do than to explain, i suspect.  the only hard part, which isn't necessary, but gives a cool effect of the "mortar" being inset, is to cut all of your 1/8" maple slices a little narrower than the cherry, so when you stand things up to glue, the cherry pieces sit proud of the maple pieces.  just make sure you clean all the glue out of grooves made by the shorter maple pieces when the glue is wet cause you can't clean it out of the grooves (easily) after it's dried.
Let me know if that description is confusing.  thanks for taking such an interest!

[duck_arse]

I'm not sure which you mean by the stripey wood.

stripey wood, you know, like striped paint.

[garyg]

... but do you use regular metal washers?  or the locking ones that come with the switch?  or something else?

I use thin metal washers.  I wouldn't use lock washers on the outside of an enclosure.

bluebunny is always watching. 

I like the rounded washers this guy on reddit (bluffchill, maybe here?) uses: https://www.reddit.com/r/diypedals/comments/dvp9qg/my_first_stab_at_a_classic_fuzz_face/

Just look classier than flat ones imo.

[stallik]

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F264299017399

[duck_arse]

the bottlebrush my mother planted outside the kitchen window has been a half-rotten stump this last 20 years at least. then the brush turkey came and scratched all the dirt from the roots, and my sister said pull it out. so I did, but had to cut it in half - and it seemed there was enough wood left, well, you know what happens next.



the really cheap compressor, via cozybuilder and Ben Lyman.





the red bottlebrush Callistemon Endeavour is fairly ordinary looking brownish wood, but feels wonderful silky smooth when finished. easy to work, too.



sorry, no guts, but here is the early metalwork, showing the official fffactory okey dokey stamp, so you know it's good.



yes, jacaranda season again. also - it seems to me that by boosting the treble before compression, it increases the squash on the bass. mind, I have no use for a compressor, so it don't bother me.  and if I really keep at this glued cloth malarky, I might, one day, come up with a set of corners I'm happy with.

[duck_arse]

xmas cancelled = pedal finished.

here see why you don't just decide to wedge and slope, just because. this misshapen lump is the poppersmill, an overdrive akin to the ROG peppermill. I had all the parts while I was waiting for other parts, so I just built it.









still can't identify that wood, but it is polished with beeswax. obligatory guts follow.



and NSW christmas bush, as a seasonal nod. thank you for your attention.

[ElectricDruid]

Dry clean only, presumably? Just planning now for when I spill beer on it.

[EBK]

SMDs on vero.  Nice. 

[bluebunny]

xmas cancelled = pedal finished..

By that reckoning, I should have finished building a house or five during "cancelled" 2020.

Nice piece of work as always. 

[willienillie]

an overdrive akin to the ROG peppermill

Next one in an actual peppermill, smd cordwood.

thank you for your attention.

[duck_arse]

Dry clean only, presumably? Just planning now for when I spill beer on it.

where'd you get the beers from? also, scotchguard has been applied in a probably futile effort to keep the white parts white. [I don't care once it's gorn, but.]

SMDs on vero.  Nice. 

was a moment of madness, but I was younger then. and it needed modifying.


and w/n - I've done one now, don't need another. overdrive? it just makes it louder.

[Kipper4]

Very nice Stephen. Love them.
Happy new year all. Lets hope 2021 is a better one
Rich

[Toy Sun]

Love the fabric wrap. I'm always trying new materials. Here is how I do wood...
This is a simple passive attenuator for double bass (I don't like to use a volume pedal, just like two levels, so I call this a "dim" - like studio monitor dimming)

[duck_arse]

yer a brave man recessing a knob like that - think of the run-out! extra points for the wood knob insert.

[aleks_tedstone]

This post inspired me to create a wooden shell for a 1590B, in which I housed a Phase 45 clone that some fine folk here helped me troubleshoot! Maybe I should have searched harder for a MXR-style knob, but I like the snazzy metallic centre of this one.