some new finishes i tried (pics)

[birt]

i made a feedback looper (with green/red duo color led) and a tap tempo pedal so i decided to try some new finishes. i'm sure they're not new but they are to me.

[O]

WTF? Are those dead "rolly-pollies"?? 

[Paul Marossy]

I like the first one, very cool. The second one kind of bugs me, though. 

Yeah, I was wondering if those are real bugs, too. 

[mdh]

i made a feedback looper (with green/red duo color led) and a tap tempo pedal so i decided to try some new finishes. i'm sure they're not new but they are to me.

I think it's safe to say that the "dead isopod finish" is a new one to most everyone... I sure as hell haven't ever seen anything quite like it!

[birt]

why would i fake dead bugs if i can just find some real bugs? :p

i've been thinking about epoxy-ing dead bugs as a finish for a long time but never did until now. too bad there's isn't much variety in the garden this time of the year.

[jonathan perez]

SIC!!!!


DUDE YOUR GOIN TO HELL!!11!

[MartyMart]

Birt ... your problem will be, when you play one of those "dark bug infested gigs"











...... you wont know which ones are  ALIVE   !!!!! 

[markm]

SIC!!!!


DUDE YOUR GOIN TO HELL!!11!

[christobean]

dude those are sick. way to go.(howd u get that shiny finish?)

[Harry]

HHAAHA that's the funniest thing ever. Did you wire it dead bug style too?

Couple of questions...
OK, so did you find them dead or just epoxy in live ones?
Also, is the epoxy hard enough or will it be possible to squish them will stomping?
I can't believe I'm actually thinking of making one with %^&*roaches.

[O]

I can't believe I'm actually thinking of making one with %^&*roaches.

I just threw up in my mouth a little 

[shadowmaster]

Totally rad!!!  This is one of the reasons why I love it here!

What would I be expecting next time...!?!?!?!?

A preserved dead snake coiled around and glued to the enclosure of a pedal...?

[birt]

HHAAHA that's the funniest thing ever. Did you wire it dead bug style too?

Couple of questions...
OK, so did you find them dead or just epoxy in live ones?
Also, is the epoxy hard enough or will it be possible to squish them will stomping?
I can't believe I'm actually thinking of making one with %^&*roaches.

i found them alive and used a hair dryer to get them dry and crispy :p the squishing thing is a problem tough. i need to find a way to prevent that. maybe inject them with epoxy first... or use a second layer when the first one is hard.

%^&*roaches would be quite easy to fill up with epoxy first i think.
the hairdryer method is easy. i made a little box with very open fabric on 2 opposite sides so they couldn't get out. then dried them for 15 seconds. i guess %^&*roaches would need a little longer

[MartyMart]

Yeah, %^&*roaches are meant to be able to survive AFTER a nuclear fallout !! 

BTW - That's a quite "disgusting" idea  !

[axeman010]

You need help man !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May I suggest a new forum for you !

http://mentalhelp.net/poc/view_index.php?idx=community

Axeman.

[brett]

Hi
Those dead bugs are really nice.
If you want hard, well-preserved bugs, you can infuse them with exopy resin.

The technique is to introduce the expoy via a series of compatible solvents.  Try alcohol then acetone then epoxy.  Two or three rinses in the solvents will dissolve away any exopy-incompatible stuff in the bugs.  IIRC from university days, there was a step in the middle that involved xylene (? between the alcohol and the acetone, I suppose).  But xylene is nasty stuff, and best avoided if possible.  The results are impessive, not the least because all the watery and fatty parts of the bugs get dissolved away, making them glassy and their guts translucent.

cheers

[axeman010]

On a serious note is that tap tempo box just a footswitch for a commercial pedal ?

Axeman

[birt]

yes

[dano12]

Beauty and the beast! Nice dremel job on the first one. The second one is great! I don't see what the fuss is all about.

When I was a wee lad, my brother and I used to catch %^&*roaches and pin them to cardboard. We would then attach pins to the outputs of a model train transformer and use it to "animate" the %^&*roach by poking the pins into various parts of the still-alive bug. Note that this was all done in the name of science, not because my brother and I were deliquents with too much time on our hands (which we were).

I think you could elevate your bug pedal to the level of performance art by attaching live roaches to the outside of the pedal and have them hardwired to the output of the pedal--thereby causing the bug to move its legs in proportion to the output of the circuit. If you decide to go into commercial production, you could easily establish a recurring revenue stream by supplying customers with fresh %^&*roaches from various corners of the world. I would imagine that, depending on how you wire the circuit, the roach could actually become a part of the pedal's overall tonality. For example, additional leads to the thorax could act as a capacitor.

%^&*roaches from different parts of the world could demand premium prices and thereby start a new industry in the cultivation and collection of NOS or exotic bugs. One can imagine the comments of "I prefer the haunting mids of the Peruvian Hissing Deathroach for my distortion needs, and rely on common Florida palmetto bugs for my mid-range TS type sounds."

Just a modest proposal.

[e45tg4t3]

very nice ideas @ birt
i think i´m gonna catch some butterfly´s next summer....
but BTW: How do you de-bug this little thing
(sry but it was the first thing i thougt as i saw this pedal^^)

Benny