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I wonder if anybody out there traces/clones boards from old appliances?   

all the best ones are gooped. . . .  ;

Sweet, I might go pawn shopping and see if I can get some cheap stuff and do some diode swap mods.  Everything is a learning experience for me right now.

Well, the bad news is I have to buy a new oven.  I think I narrowed the problem down to the clock control board, and, apparently, those are so relatively expensive that its usually more cost effective to just by a new unit.

So since I have to buy one anyway, I couldn't help but take the circuit board out and look at it, since I'm just beginning to learn about such things though pedal building.  I was pleasantly surprised to find a lot of components that were familiar to me, diodes, resistors, aluminum capacitors etc. 

That got me thinking, what would be the probability of unsoldering some of these and using them?  It would be cool to have enough to make a simple buffer or boost.  Anyone ever do anything like that with a discarded board?

Here's the board from the oven/range:

great looking fuzz man.  I bet it sounds as good as it looks.

Yessir, smallbear geraniums.  You should have seen me stressing about the pin out.  One of the things that made the project take longer is the sockets.  I didn't order any at first, and while researching the pin out I realized I could damage the transistors by soldering them to the board.  I played it safe and ordered some sockets and in the end I was glad I did.

I hope I do learn enough to fix it later.  I'm kind of glad I haven't been forced to troubleshoot as of yet though, haha.

[The bad]

This is my second build, first time building without a kit.  Man what a blast.  For a guy that's not mechanically inclined like me, I'm getting so much out of learning that I can do some electronic stuff.  The first thing I learned was even though I had a PCB, ordering all the parts ect is a lot more challenging then doing a step by step kit.  I learned so much more this way though.

The bad:  This pedal looks like hell.  The inside is a rats nest of wires and transistors and the knobs on the outside bump into each other and are wired backwards.  Despite getting some great help from guys on this forum with wiring up the LED with the positive ground, the light still doesn't come on.  I probably need to do some tightening up on somethings so this won't die on me at an inopportune moment.

The good:  Is sounds great !! (to me anyway).  I've never owned a fuzz, just started wanting one recently and decided to build one.  Oh man, the thickness.  In the demo the tone control is about 85% toward the bass side, and that's really the fuzz tone I've been chasing.  I added more treble and dialed it back a little, hello Led Zepplin I, and dialed back the volume on my guitar (DC Les Paul Jr.) and I got a great 'Money for Nothing" type tone.

Best thing about it is, I build it.  Of course I added extra mojo through my newb soldering.  I'm bit by the bug, I will be building more very soon.

Here's a little demo.  Just the Fuzz straight into my clean channel with some delay in the effects loop.  Don't mind the sloppy playing its only like 40 secs long.

(Thanks for all the help from members in my wiring question thread).

you guys are awesome.  I do have a power supply in my future, I can only hope I'll be experience enough with pedal projects to build my own road rage when that time. comes.

Thanks a bunch, i should get it finished on my next days off.  This is my first non-kit build.  I'm gonna try and do a waterslide decal and everything.  Hopefully I'll get some sound clips up when its done.

thx for help Josh.

The wiring for just the LED looks so much more simple, I might just leave out the DC jack.  I'm not using a power supply so its no big deal.  I just didn't want a whole in the middle of the peddle where the LED should be.  I think the LED without the DC diagram fits the bill perfectly.

Making sure I'm understanding:  if i hook the black battery wire to the resistor/LED, and then the LED to the 3PDT, will I not have to run anything to the 9v spot on the PCB? 

Thanks for being tolerant of my lack of knowledge here.

I'm making a sola sound tonebender with the pastyface board.  This is my second project, and I'm not the most naturally inclined builder, so I'm sure my lack of knowledge/experience is the weak link here.

I bought a predrilled enclosure with an led hole, as well as a DC jack hole, not thinking about the positive ground, and the issues that would add to the equation.

Since the LED spot open, now I want to go ahead and wire the light up so it will work.  I'm strongly considering just leaving out the DC jack, especially if that will make things easier.  I've got a 47K resistor I originally ordered for the LED.

So, help me out here, fellas.  1) is it going to be easier to wire the LED up without the DC jack and 2) can you point me to a diagram I can follow, I've found multiple diagrams by searching, but I'm nervous because they all have quirks that don't seem to apply to my situation, at least in a manner that my noobness can understand.