Dye your own colour PCB

[deadastronaut]

nice....but erm..!..

no one sees it do they ..apart from us nosey screwdriver holding nerdy types..ha ha...

i do like a tidy gut shot though..pedal porn for sure...!.

[MikeH]

Cool!  Looks to me like this would work best with the "Old-school-manilla-folder" type pcb, and not so well with the newer (newer-looking, anyway) epoxy-glass board.  Like you'd get from small bear.  In fact, I'd say it won't work on that board at all.

Awesome idea none-the-less!

[John Lyons]

Hammer Time!

[rousejeremy]

Hammer Time!

Awesome!
What's next John, wood pcb's?

[Paul Marossy]

Tried painting  a board once, with high temperature black BBQ paint and it turned out to be conductive. Luckily thought to test it before i populated the board so was easy to remove it before it could cause problems.

There's a youtube video from Kat at Sonodrome and in that she uses isopropyl alcohol which is what i use to remove Sharpie when needed.

I didn't know that paint was conductive. I wonder if you could use it to shield guitar control cavities?

Isopropyl alcohol removes Sharpie ink, stick stuff from stickers, all sorts of stuff. It will even remove some kinds of paint (found that out the hard way).

[tiges_ tendres]

Tried painting  a board once, with high temperature black BBQ paint and it turned out to be conductive. Luckily thought to test it before i populated the board so was easy to remove it before it could cause problems.

There's a youtube video from Kat at Sonodrome and in that she uses isopropyl alcohol which is what i use to remove Sharpie when needed.

I didn't know that paint was conductive. I wonder if you could use it to shield guitar control cavities?

Isopropyl alcohol removes Sharpie ink, stick stuff from stickers, all sorts of stuff. It will even remove some kinds of paint (found that out the hard way).

Look for this:

http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=127

Magnetic paint!  I believe Pete Cornish uses something like this in his wooden floor board contraptions!

[Paul Marossy]

Look for this:

http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=127

Magnetic paint!  I believe Pete Cornish uses something like this in his wooden floor board contraptions!

Huh, I've never seen that product, either. It would work great for those Pete Cornish type pedalboards, though. 

[John Lyons]

I bought a $20 can of the magnetic paint  but I could not read continuity between two points.
So I guess It's not conductive...

[frank_p]

Carbon black is conductive (charcoal).  I am measuring 50 Ohm across a high density charcoal stick right now (used for drawing).
Most black paint use grounded carbon as pigment.

[John Lyons]

I think the binder in the paint is suspending the particles enough that they don't
touch and make contact with each other enough to show resistance or continuity.

[Jarno]

I have some fountainpen ink that's truly horrible, Sherwood Green fastdrying, it bleeds it creeps, and I can't even give it away. Might have found a purpose for it! Not waterproof though, but neither are electronics.

[StereoKills]

Not waterproof though, but neither are electronics.

Actually, the electronic components are waterproof. I wash the water soluble flux off of my boards under warm water with a brush after I'm done soldering the board. Just don't apply electricity until it's completely dry.