Finished this bad girl up on Friday. I've got it calibrated, but I'm still going to play around with T1 and clock just a touch to squeeze out a bit more feedback. Minute adjustments is an understatement! All in all, it sounds fantastic. Build was easy and I came across no issues at all. Socketed R1 for humbuckers as indicated in the build doc.
Squeezed inside a 1590BB, I had to modify (read: mangle) a pair of enclosed switching jacks to get a good fit with decent clearance. Enclosure is etched and painted with Tamiya acrylic paint.
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Nice!
That's some good jack mangling, I must say.
Very nice!
Excellent decal and colors.
Nice job!
I've done my fair share of jack mangling. It's always a game of "how much plastic can I saw away before the metal contacts fall off?"
Did you just alter the Electric Mistress logo, or is that an actual font?
Really nice etch!
Thanks!
The font was a mashup between a couple workalike fonts, Bauhaus 73 and Knuckle Down, if I recall correctly (I do all my graphics on my laptop, which is in the other room), followed by slicing and dicing a couple letters. It's by no means an exact duplicate of the typeface, but it gets the point across - I'm an impatient man. :D
As for the etch, it's my third one, and second successful attempt. The last one I did was a super clean etch, but was shallow enough that I had a hard time keeping the paint in the etched parts. This one I let go for quite a while longer, and the NaOH solution began to creep out underneath the tape and a couple edges of the mask unseen and unnoticed, as can be seen above the feedback control and the last 'e' in 'maitresse'. But hey, it's a learning experience, and I'm still happy with the way it turned out.