Idea for homebrew circuit board

[ItZaLLgOOd]

Take a thin piece of cardboard (like the back of a legal pad).  Print out a top (components) and bottom (traces) circuit. Coat the cardboard in epoxy, apply pic of circuit and coat again. Drill holes and use the trace side as a road map like working with perf.

[Johan]

my first builds ~25years ago, was simply the schematic glued to a piece of cardboard, components legs pushed through the cardboard where they appeared on the schematic and connected underneath just like the schematic showed...crude but it worked...my first build was a fuzzface and I got the schematic from a "guitarplayer" mag....it had an error that took a long time for a beginner to figure out. the feedback resistor was drawn "outside" of the inputcap....damn you C.A...
J

[petemoore]

   +1:
  was simply the schematic glued to a piece of cardboard, components legs pushed through the cardboard where they appeared on the schematic and connected underneath just like the schematic showed...crude but it worked...my first build was a fuzzface
  ..Some old hardback books have high quality back-board with 'book tolex' or hard-cloth finishes  .

[alparent]

So if I use this trick I could.......

Get a 60 inch LCD TV, save the cardboard box, so all the money I would save on copper clad would pay for the TV!

Now I have to sale that to the wife!

[petemoore]

Get a 60 inch LCD TV
  You're going to end up with one extra large pedal collection.
  No board [aka hanging garden], dowel rod, creative use of insulated lugs, bookboard...doesn't matter when it's right, it has to work.
  Twist the leads tight, solder, [I even wedged and then glued an item or two to prevent wiggle.
  Drill a hole and then glue/smush the transistor body-head in there, now you have 3 otherwise insulated leads to mount to, that and a ziptied or otherwise bound cap makes for good-solid-straight double twisted lead between to mount points...pretty dern secure.
  Clamps tight some thin cardboard strips, even paper...across the capacitor or what have you and bind it right to the board..not going anywhere but down the road [in one piece] now.

[ItZaLLgOOd]

I was thinking of being creative with the component side.  Pictures or designs that match the outside of the box is one idea.

[edvard]

my first builds ~25years ago, was simply the schematic glued to a piece of cardboard, components legs pushed through the cardboard where they appeared on the schematic and connected underneath just like the schematic showed...crude but it worked

That's exactly how the original commonsound noise swash was intended to be laid out:
http://commonsound.com/swash/swashboard.pdf

[alparent]

How about some Mac&Cheese boxes for enclosure?