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The ivory enclosure looks properly mayonnaise-y!

The way mayo should be! none of this solar white nonsense...

I've liked all your Kewpie builds! Makes we want to finally do a white pedal, lol. And a Muff which I currently do not have in the lineup (well, the PPCB Marigold, but that's got one feet on the TB side of the fence!).

I've done a Mudbunny for a friend who loved it. Looks like Bean's successor is the Scare Bear. Worth a build, I'd say.

I called the Mayonnaise Fuzz the final form of the muff (and then proceeded to get clowned on), but there is something about it, and I stand by my claim. I'm sure Brian could work voodoo magic on it, though  

I managed to get it into a 1590B with top jacks, but it needs 1/8W resistor footprints. (And a breakout board for 9mm pots with a weird footprint so it sits flush against the body) So, goes without saying, but much easier to do in a 1590N1/125B.


The Tayda cream/Ivory is also nice if you don't want to do your own spray, and it's powder coat. 

That looks really nice ! I haven't tried etching yet, maybe once I move out of my current (too small) place !

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Thanks! Yeah you'll definitely want to have leak proof or outdoor ventilation. Those VOCs are bad juju.

Nice finish, looks good!

Thanks! I'm always surprised how well the rattle can poly turns out. 

That looks great, you're using the laser to great effect.  I agree, too, this is a cool sounding board.  I tend to use mine as more of an overdrive than its origins would suggest.

I like that two tone fade paint!

Thanks, man. For this one I do prefer the spray n fade over a solid line. Thought about it. 

I live how yours you used that special paint to mark on the aluminum after you etch, but I'm too lazy and just use paint that will contrast with the bare aluminum one direction or another.

How did you do the etch? Looks really nice.

Thanks! So I used my 5W hobby laser (takes about an hour or so for this size). Normally I'd go back and clean out the soot, which looks like this:

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I wanted more contrast, so I carefully blew off what was on the cream/ivory finish and then just did a clear poly gloss and baked it.

For paint that isn't days old cured I run about 2000 mm/min at 100% on this 5W guy. My nephew has access to a 60W CO2 laser that would take seconds.

That looks killer, but how's the TOAN?

Thanks! I like it a lot, actually. Using a harmonic percolator on its own is ...not my thing, but it adds a certain something to this guy in parallel with the FF. Also, this is the first FF-a-like I've put together that I've liked, oddly enough. Or maybe my protoboard version has issues. Wouldn't surprise me.

One of these days I'll do proper demos of the projects I put together. I have condenser mics but they won't do like an SM56 would.

The job is yours, you just gotta let them know.

heheheh, I had a rather cheeky intro on my personal site a few years ago now that was basically that.

YOU'VE ENTERED THE FORBIDDEN ZONE, LOBOTOMITE! I AM DOCTOR MOBIUS! RETURN TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND DO NOT DISTURB THE CRITICAL WORKINGS I HAVE WORKING ...ON! I HAVE A GOOD RAISIN FOR DOING THINGS THE WAY I DO. GO BOTHER THE THINK TANK!

Okay, enough trying to write like Chris Avellone—I'm not that good.

This is my long-procrastinated build of Aleph Null's Peacock Parallel Fuzz. I was experimenting with a regular FF on the breadboard and dug up a 2N2904 PNP motorola can I had sitting around. It's silicon, but it looked nice 'n mojo.




Rattle can and lay-zor for this one. I think this is the furthest I've ever gone, as far as steps go, for the graphics. I wanted it done right like my head brain vision saw it. I could never get a good in-game screenshot to be the way I wanted it, so I ended up: using a modding archive decompression tool, extracting the NIF files from the game data, converting them to OBJ, importing them into my ancient version of Maya, rigging them, plopping on the textures, and posing them (mostly) the way I wanted them, setting up lighting, rendering, taking it into photoshop to tweak and adjust contrast, then into illustrator so I could get vectors for the laser. My rigging and animation skills are quite rusty, but I got it mostly the way that was in my head.

All that, and after it was all said and done, I got to looking at it and though ...FORBIDDEN TONE! would have been a much better name!  Also, I bought the knobs back when I got the PCB, and figured the blue rattle can I had would match, but 'Continental Blue' is rather subdued. Oh well, turned out fine.

Also, someone on here had a Big MT brain bot concept artwork (no name/words that I can remember?), but I couldn't find the post, so sorry to whomever you are for copping your concept on this one, but my Fallout-themed pedals—and this circuit—demanded it!

Thanks for looking.

So a friend asked me to make him a Kewpie (Mayonnaise) Fuzz after trying out the one I previously showcased. I told him "pumpkins in a box" and he was constantly bugging me to get it to him. Our schedules at the time were fairly hectic, so even 30 minutes of driving was too much.

After he got it in his hands, he was hooked! Ran it through every amp and axe he had, and even through his ToneMaster (can't believe the deal he got on that one...). Tele, P90 LP Jr, Strat, Hagstrom, it loved it all, so he asked me to build him one. Opted for ivory over solar white. He said he wanted a full DIY feel, so no Tayda UV here, just my previous design (mildly improved) etched into rattle can paint.






The design is basically the same as before, but since I fixed the 3D printed template, the holes are actually where they're supposed to be! The face has some minor tweaks, the border design has been folded inward to actually keep it off the shoulder of the enclosure, and just feels tighter to me.

He wanted a monochrome theme going, so to add some contrast to the chrome toggle switches I bought some lever covers. I didn't know if he'd like them, as he didn't like the paddle type from the first build, and definitely didn't want short lever ones. But he was pleased, so that's a win!

Thanks for looking.

That's great news!

Oh yes it is. Thank you. I think things have become more chaotic since basically no one local (despite calling itself "silicon slopes") is hiring non-entry or non-principal roles. Everything's remote! But this one is very promising.

After months of companies ghosting me, I finally had an interview yesterday. That feels good. 


To placate a broody hen, we got some chicks for her. Then to placate the kids, we got them some chicks to take care of and raise—now they've forgotten about wanting a dog.

In all seriousness, i hope you take care of yourself.  

I'll do what I can in stoking the conversational fire. 

Blame it on the Russian bots 

I've found breadboarding to be a good corrective for hoarding. There are many circuits that seem exciting...until I breadboard them and get to play with them a little.

I  feel seen

I'm on mobile so I can't check if this is the kicad version: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/v6hbul63pjh28xn12lum5/Madbean.zip?rlkey=fpz44q0ozbozck0j0rkqbtoxw&dl=0

He also listed these?
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