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Looks great! 

Congratulations, that's a big deal. 

Casssax, I really looking forward to spending some time with it.  Didn't finish it till midnight (hour past my bed time, I'm 40 now;).
Also, look forward to your build report

Yes, just the top.  Had some trouble (my second enviro job).  Poured too much so I was constantly wiping the sides.  The painters tape I used to fill the holes gave way so it was seeping through to the inside of the box.  It was messy.  All that trouble and it still turned out ok.

Build #2 from last night.  MB Sparkplug.  Tight fit in regards to depth.  Sounds great.  Look forward to playing with all the trimmers and knobs:)
It has been a real treat to work with a prefab board these last two pedals.

I hope so Jimmy.  Like the results. 
Just the top BillStein.  Used a PPP that's pretty glossy.  Blends nicely.

Thanks guys.  A few firsts for me.  First ribbon cable for pots.  First 3pdt board.  First decal+envirotex.  Loved the ribbon cable.  Made a mess with the envirotex!

Friend of mine wanted a Gary Clark Jr sounding pedal so I built him this pedal.  I made the mistake of asking him what he wanted to name it.  Not crazy about the 'Dr Fuzzy' name but this thing sounds great!  I'll end up building one for myself at some point.  Excited to hear him play through it.

I'm a fool sometimes.  I went home to take a picture of the top of the board and it hit me. I didn't do a good enough job on hand drilling the copper.  (I made the mistake of taping off the copper on top, still can't figure out what possessed me to do so!) I figured I'd just remove the copper around each hole.  It took forever.  Watched at least a couple hours of Olympics while doing so.  I was very careful to remove enough copper and place the components in a way that avoided contact with the copper on top.  Obviously the components must have shifted or were making contact from the start.  It would explain why I had signal to start with and not now.  Might explain why I got negative voltage on PIN 5 briefly and then not.  In my head, this complicates things to the point that I should abort, buy a prefabbed Kingslayer and start over.  Don't have the heart to etch another one right now.  At least I can salvage the pots, toggles, ICs and diodes.  At the risk of embarrassing myself I'll post the pic of the top.

I'm at work Jon.  I'll test continuity and post a pic later tonight

Just bought 2 non-pancake right angles from Tayda and they seem fine.  Just built a 'longer' cable for my board.  No issues (yet).  Works fine.  Feels sturdy.

Ok.  Have a clean solder joint around the dirt pot connection.  I put a guitar signal through it again just for fun.  Where I once had too loud and distorted, I now have no output.  The signal is making it to the IC at Pin 10.  No signal coming out of the IC.  Rechecked all my voltages around the IC's again after re flowing some suspect joints but the are all the same as above

Thanks Dave.  I'll see if that fixes things later this evening.  Good eye.  As my momma says 'if it was a snake it'd have bit my head off'

Here is a picture of the solder side.  Looked over it carefully and removed/re flowed a couple spots.  Am I missing something?  Voltages are still the same.

Thanks BTW.  Jon, is the voltage info on the datasheets and I am just being dense?