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It makes me want to purchase their products even more to support them.

+1 on this. I'm a fan of Wampler pedals and although I would love to see some bean builds based on his work, i will gladly purchase his pedals. I just scooped up a Pinnacle last week in a combo deal plus a polysaturator, although it was on the used market rather than new.

Guts like that make me wish it had a plexi glass back plate!

You can still use them on PCB mount projects. Use leads from resistors or caps and make 'legs' on the lugs. I do it on a lot of my builds. Saves from having to buy two different types of pots in the same values. I used to buy PCB mount pots, but I don't bother anymore, at least not for most things.

jacob

Thanks Jacob...Not sure why I didn't think of that, lol. Looks like I'll finally be getting around to a Boneyard build.

Nice! All with board mounted pots, I assume?

Except for the Retorgrade. The height of the transformer makes it a little to close for comfort. So, there are two holes for stand-offs instead. Everything is PCB mounted pots. I'll be doing less of PCB mounted switches, though. They are more trouble than they are worth, IMO, except in really tight layouts.

LOL, now I need to figure out what to do with all these lug style pots I stocked up on...

I've spent a ton of time on beavis--learned a whole lot. The project docs for the Beavis Board are awesome, even if you don't build the actual breadboard projects. It's a shame he doesn't post new content anymore.

very nice, l like it.

If you don't mind me asking what did you use to burnish? I've tried wooden dowels with minimal success.

I actually went the wooden dowel route. I used a 1/2 inch diameter with a felt furniture pad attached to the end. I figured the "squishiness" would allow for even contact. I used pads kind of like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Floor-Protectors-Furniture-Pads-Craft/dp/B001MY6VS8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323740423&sr=8-1

My initial intention was to just stretch a clump of steel wool over the tip and affix it with some tape. The only steel wool I had on hand was "very fine" and "fine". The resulting swirls looked more like a mirror finish, so I decided to go with a little strip of 600 grit water sanding paper that was nearby. This achieved the desired effect, but it was much more pressure sensitive. If I dug in to hard, it would leave some pretty deep swirls. In retrospect, I could have probably went with a tad finer grit and used the depth stop on the press to take care of pressure.

Overall, I really dig the effect with the clear water slides. The red areas in the decal have a sort of depth to them like a candy paint job or something. I'll definitely try this again with my lessons learned.

Congrats man! I dig the copper/70's theme--simple and to the point. I did some BYOC builds initially to get my feet wet. Small things like soldering to the board first are not necessarily apparent in the beginning. The BYOC instructions are very detailed and I learned quite a bit just from their documents.

It's not a build report without gut shots though 

These are the pedal DIY books that Brian Wampler had on the market a while back. Ultimately, he started manufacturing his boutique stuff so I guess the books weren't really part of the plan anymore. He makes some killer pedals, and he's always been pretty active in the DIY community.

Dude that design rules.
I've thought about using bed liner before too but never have.  Do you like the way it came out?

Thanks Keefe. The bed liner rocks--this is the rustoleum brand. You have to shake the can often during application, but it coats quite well without primer. What you see here is two coats on bare metal. Since it's textured, I also slacked on the prep sanding. It covered the horizontal grooves on the sides quite well and baked nicely in a toaster oven. The tape lines on the top peeled off pretty cleanly also.

I will definitely use it again.

As far as the logo goes, I pulled it into photoshop from an image of the new mini rectifier on the boogie site. Originally it was much smaller and centered, but I kinda dig the asymmetric deal so I blew it up and shifted it over. Although, it does say "Unk Chunk" now, lol.

Man, I don't see anything poorly executed about that finish  . Looks pretty freakin' great to me thus far!

Looking forward to the finish product. I have two of these I'm in the midst of also, hoping to get close to done by the of this year.

-Kevin

Thank you kind sir. Let's just say that the lighting in this photo is very forgiving of the defects I used a drill press and drew some guidelines on the box to follow. Some of the lines aren't quite straight and I over applied pressure in a few areas. I own a mini milling machine from a previous hobby that would have achieved some real precision, but I figured the decal and the knobs would hide most issues. Not to mention, I'm too impatient to keep cranking those handles on the mill table. The mini milling machine continues to collect dust...

I'm working on a Chunk Chunk at the moment--here is the enclosure that I came up with. Truck bed liner on the sides with a poorly executed engine turned finish on top. Then a standard water slide on top of that. I'll post some real pics when I actually finish this thing...consider this a placeholder.

Russ

Duckman shared them with me over at FSB and I put up this link http://www.mediafire.com/?lnlu6q237fmsw3n

Brian said he's cool with it as long as you understand there are some errors/out of date info, and that he still holds the copyright...so don't try to sell it

Whoa, right on man! I've read that all the info in those books is available out on the net, but I thought it would be cool to see it all in one place. If anything, it will just give me more things to research elsewhere.

Thanks guys!

I've been looking for the Wampler books for a good bit, but I've never been successful. Is anyone aware of any place that still has these things?

...the easier it is for inventory taking and future orders etc...

Yep, this is why I need it. As I've been cleaning up, I keep finding parts that I just recently re-ordered even though I already had some "hidden" in my shop. Then again, you can never have too many parts can ya!

Right on guys. I have an "out of sight" room dedicated to all of my guitar gear and I think this contributes to my lack of organization. I have several compartment type boxes, so I'm gonna go for some of the drawer setups that you guys pointed out. Thanks for the help! Now back to my chunk chunk....