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I indavertantly bought 5 sheets of white inkjet decal sheets when I meant to buy clear sheets. If anyone wants them, I paid $7.75 and will turn them around for the same. Just PM if interested

Exterior of the stripboard build:

I also like using double sided tape. Often I will only adhere it to the enclosure, leaving the backing on the side that faces the board and just let the board rest on it. This also works well as a small spacer if your battery is jiggling around

For cutting board, I tape off with blue painters tape and use the tape as aguide to cut with a mini hacksaw. Then smooth the edges with 320g paper

A 5mm drillbit works perfectly for cutting tracks. No need for special tools.

As for unspoken secrets? Don't drink coffee before soldering vero 

I also got some AC125s on eBay to try out in a treble booster. Gains are all over the map from under 125 to well over 300. The usable ones are decent, but to my ear not as musical as an OC75. Probably better suited to a Fuzz than a Treble Booster

Thanks. Here's another I just built on stripboard instead of PCB.

Thanks Cobb. It's loosely based off a SHO (in fact I asked Brian to use the SlamBox as the baseline for the PCB). It also borrows from the CNOK, with a few tweaked components. One of the more unique characteristics (and why there is no 9V jack) is it is positive ground -- and dead quiet

This is a pedal design I have been working on from time-to-time. It is a positive-ground MOSFET full boost. It's fairly transparent and adds no color to your tone but when dimed it will add some grit to an amp on the verge of breakup. If and when I start producing these I may just go with an unfinished enclosure with the same graphics.

Oh, and thanks again to Brian for the PCB fabrication!

Graphics are awesome. Especially the stick figure guy. Is that you?

Thats cool!! Its great how small SHO circuits are, it gives you soo much room to work with!!
I have a vero layout for this but I believe its different from the one you have here. You said this is your own layout right?

Even more room in a 125B!

Yes, the layout is my own. But I look forward to the PCBs from Brian; even with a small build vero is very tedious

I was not trying to bash Mammoth, but rather to share my experience. The previous poster said that he has dealt with Blake on *a number of issues*, so it would seem a yellow flag should be raised

The switches I bent back. No harm no foul, but the fact that 2 out of 4 switches were bent leaves me to wonder about quality in general

I did contact Mammoth and they gave me a small credit. Basically that is saying "we're very sorry that you were not satisfied. Give us another chance and we will credit you for your trouble, but if you are not going to buy from us again, then we are not going to do anything for you. "

The right thing to do is to provide me with a replacement that is not blemished (or refund my full purchase price) rather than trapping me to buy more in order to redeem my store credit.

I placed a small order for the first time with Mammoth recently. The shipping was as fast as anyone, but I am not impressed with quality.

I ordered 4 3PDT switches. 2 of them had a lug bent over at a 90 degree angle.

A finished 125B enclosure has visible sanding lines on every surface, especially the long sides

This is my final prototype for a pedal I have dubbed "Shock Hazard". It is a modified SHO (Slambox) circuit with several component changes. Most notably it uses a P-Channel MOSfet and the source resistor is a fixed value with the gain pot following input with no crackle

What you see is built on vero, but Brian is fabbing PCBs for me for the "real thing". I have several powdercoated enclosures on the way to make a color choice.  The text and graphics are printed on labels for now but I will be using waterslides. I am still undecided between the 2 fonts I am showing in the first picture.

Do the transistor pads allow space for sockets?

as I said, quick question

Around the beginning of December I sent Brian and a couple other shops some prelims for the first PCB I've ever designed. I decided to go with Brian and I am very happy I did.

Yesterday, I found a bubble mailer in my mailbox containing these... (no not the picks)...



What is it? Not even Brian knows, just yet. I will say for now, it is a boost of sorts. I will try to find time to do a photoessay once I get the build(s) underway

Oh and as an aside, Brian had run into some unavoidable delays along the way and went way above and beyond to more than make up for the extra wait time. For that, I thank you.

I cannot say enough about his level of service or the quality of his work.