Pictures!

[Govmnt_Lacky]

^ is that a faceplate? looks great! rhymes even.

My guess is either laser etched acrylic/aluminum -OR- waterslide/decal on acrylic/aluminum.

If that is an etched faceplate... its the best detail I have EVER seen on one... 

[cathexis]

Waterslide on brass faceplate. Hard to capture how nice it looks in a photo. Shiny!

[guitarmageddon]

Mk1 Tonebender



Etched enclosure with mojo inside, OC75s, carbon comp resistors, Mustard and tropical fish caps...

[davent]

Whoa,Etched drop shadows, those letters absolutely pop! Terrific!

[GiovannyS10]

Wooow guitarmageddon! Etched stroke and drop shadow!  Very good!

[Luke51411]

This is a modded Clarinot build and Into the Unknown guitar synth designed by Freppo

[duck_arse]

Mk1 Tonebender
Etched enclosure with mojo inside, OC75s, carbon comp resistors, Mustard and tropical fish caps...

this looks like dancing octopuses. psychodelic dancing octopusses, but in a good way.

This is a modded Clarinot build and Into the Unknown guitar synth designed by Freppo

and I don't understand this, but it looks stunning.

[Fender3D]

this looks like dancing octopuses. psychodelic dancing octopusses, but in a good way.

c'mon duck, introduce me to your pusher... 

[banzai-che]

Hi! Today I dont have stompbox 
But I have a small piece of pure evil!



Actually it's rebuild of my second amp (oh yes, it was really awful). Too small chassis make this project really hard (double decker layout - oh God!).



Preamp based on http://forum.guitarplayer.ru/attach/243256-693588.jpg & 6V6 poweramp. Paper in oil capacitors in clean channel and poweramp, mallory 150 in drive channel.

[Sammylee74]

Dead Astronaut's X - Fuzz on vero from tagboard effects.

[Cozybuilder]

Sammy- Love that graphic 

[Elijah-Baley]

Dead Astronaut's X - Fuzz on vero from tagboard effects.

Great building.
Those are not LEDs . What did you use for the clipping?

[Sammylee74]

Elijah,  they are LEDs, just rectangular shaped.

[Sammylee74]

Thanks Cozybuilder

[Elijah-Baley]

Elijah,  they are LEDs, just rectangular shaped.

Never seen... Cool!

[midwayfair]

Built for a (repeat!) customer. I took the fuzz and bias controls from the Rust Bunny, changed the tone control to affect the bass only (from the Vox's original massive bass cut at 1KHz down to 144Hz with the bass all the way up), and built it up on perfboard with a pair of germanium transistors (a Russian MP38A hfe ~75 in Q1 and a US 2N388 [I think that was the part number] ~52 in Q2) with gain buckets similar to reported values from some vintage units. The relatively high capacitance of the Russian transistor (which is part of what makes them sound so good) helps smooth things out for most of the distortion to keep it from getting way too harsh, and the relatively low capacitance of the 2N388 kept it sounding very edgy. Although the circuit looks like a Fuzz Face, it sounds different and doesn't clean up as fast with the guitar volume, which is pretty typical of having the gain buckets "backward" -- if I were to swap the positions of the transistor pair it would react just like a Fuzz Face, but multiple posts I found about the Vox TB confirmed that the second transistor was lower gain than Q1. It also isn't quite as dirty as a fuzz face overall.

I made it on perfboard because I would have been jumpering half the component slots on the Bunny's PCB, so this just seemed tidier.

I really like how it turned out and I kinda want to make myself one.

Another customer build:



Tetragrammaton. A Snow Day and Cappuccino (percollator clone with extras) 2-in-1 for a customer in North Carolina. He named it and provided some usual bits of artwork he wanted in there.

I was particularly happy with the way the sky came out -- I did layers and then used thinner to get the swirl effect. Diodes for the Cappuccino are 1n695 (odd) and OA126 again, but there's also a diode lift. The Snow Day was build on the Madbean board with some compromises between my original and Brian's improvements to the circuit.

I accidentally cut the wires a little short on the Snow Day's power, and I couldn't get the wire back through the soldered hole, so it looks a little messy in the corner, and I had to flip the bypass PCB upside down to get the LED in the middle, but otherwise a straighforward build. The Snow Day board was a leetle bigger than I expected, so I had to do "portrait" instead of the "landscape" orientation I usually use for 1590BB 2-in-1s.

This is a pretty killer combination. He plays garage rock type stuff so I think he's going to really like the OA126 setting on the Perc stacked into the no comp setting on the Snow Day.

[Thomeeque]

 Hey guys, new band -> new stompbox build (after quite a long time):





(click for hi-res)

It is Tube Screamer 808 with very untrue bypass through custom optical compressor, it is an experiment, compressor will need some tuning yet. Find more pics here.

Cheers, T.

[bloxstompboxes]

Tight build and interesting switch/battery placement, Thomeeque. Any reason for the switched positions of them? My guess is to make the switch further away from the knobs. Regardless, nice clean etch and build!

[bluebunny]

It has a cute bunny on it!  Aw....   

That's all I have to offer.  Please carry on...

[Thomeeque]

Tight build and interesting switch/battery placement, Thomeeque. Any reason for the switched positions of them? My guess is to make the switch further away from the knobs. Regardless, nice clean etch and build!

Thanks Eric! There are three reasons actually. First one is the one you have already guessed, second one is that it was the only way it would fit yet relatively comfortably (battery at the bottom would eat more space as it would not fit between bottom pillars). Third reason is to compensate thinner walls of the enclosure, I have bought it cheap on ebay, it says "1590B Style" but walls are much thinner than on the original.

Btw. text is engraved, not etched.

T.