Electra Distortion - Broken Bypass

[MetalUpYerEye]

Hi I recently attempted building my first home-made stompbox. I chose the Electra Distortion from the beginners page of Justin Philpott's website; Effectronics (http://www.geocities.com/j4_student/beginners.html). Luckily for me, after a few very minor problems I plugged my guitar into the device and it worked beautifully save for one thing. Bypass. It seems that the switch doesn't bypass the signal like it should. Instead of giving me the natural sound of my guitar when turned off it cuts the signal altogether. I'm somewhat of a confusing fellow when I type so let me simplify;

Electra Distortion
Justin Philpott's beginners page website (http://www.geocities.com/j4_student/beginners.html)
Built to the specs on the page, soldered on a PC board (all components match the schematic)
Switch turned on - Working circuit
Switch turned off - No signal

I'm curious as to what I may have missed, how can I make the Electra Distortion bypass my guitar signal when I turn the circuit off?

[fixr1984]

I did the same project and had the same problem. Try swithcing the green wires around on the switch. The drawing is wrong.

[petemoore]

  If the signal wasn't going through the box, tip to tip of cables plugged in the box would be connected to carry it.
 Sleeves are connected either way, and carry ground.
 By plugging cables into the box, and tracing with a DMM, starting with the tip of cable [at unplugged guitar] to the jack tip connection, jack tip connection to Switch, Switch's bypass jumper, Switches output jack lug, [these last two are inside the switch, and the switch needs to be in bypass mode], then to the output jack tip. While you're at it you can check for grounds anywhere I just mentioned, if so you have to find/eliminate it.
 could be a bad switch

[MetalUpYerEye]

Ah thanks. Switching those 2 wires fixed the problem and now my first stompbox works perfectly! I was also wondering how I would go about putting a distortion control on this thing. Would it be simple or a pain in the (you know what) and how would such a task be accomplished?