Bone Tender/Pastyface

[miter53]

Built to Soulbender specs with two NOS 2SA322 + a 2SB89A in Q3

[selfdestroyer]

The labeling looks awesome and adds great aesthetics to the pedal. The color choices are great. Very clean build.

Cody

[jimilee]

I love everything about it, Nicely executed.

[miter53]

Thanks!

A question: I have no experience with this circuit before, and there is still a fair amount of grind even when the gain is dialed all the way down. Turning down the guitar volume cleans it up pretty well though. Is this typical? Q1 is about 54 hfe, Q2 is 59 and Q3 is 83, all with pretty low leakage.

[billstein]

That's awesome! Had to do a double take to make sure it wasn't actually stamped out by a label maker. Great idea.

[pickdropper]

That's awesome! Had to do a double take to make sure it wasn't actually stamped out by a label maker. Great idea.

If he used a real label maker, he'd have to charge $600 for it.   

Really nice looking pedal.  Solid on the inside and outside.

[alanp]

I can tell you right now that using Dymo labels doesn't automatically make a $600USD pricetag work. I can't even flog my Dymo'ed builds for $100NZD.

Very nice work, I'm always envious of those who can do photoshop magic and trickery

[miter53]

Did the label with AutoCAD. Font is here http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Impact-Label?filter%5Btags%5D%5B%5D=retro&filter%5Bfamily_size%5D=1&filter%5Bdownload%5D=all&sort=a2z

[bcalla]

That's a great look!  And thanks for sharing the font site, I'm always looking for new ones.

[miter53]

Font Squirrel is great. Fonts w/o BS added.

[Kinki fuzz]

A question: I have no experience with this circuit before, and there is still a fair amount of grind even when the gain is dialed all the way down. Turning down the guitar volume cleans it up pretty well though. Is this typical? Q1 is about 54 hfe, Q2 is 59 and Q3 is 83, all with pretty low leakage.

Yeah, mine is pretty much the same, you need the guitar vol if you want to smooth things out

[alanp]

That's the nature of fuzz in general, in my experience.

[Bret608]

It is indeed. Especially Tonebender variants. A MkII sounds like a pretty heavy OD or distortion still when the gain is at 0. I love the look of your build!

[Gledison]

Great build! very nice and clean design.
what about the baby 3pdt board, did you make yourself or did you buy it? i´ve got a etching layout of one that is very similar...
cheers

[miter53]

Stinger (or Felix A) at DIYSB. They are the Mr G layout.