Pi/4 Smoothie

[timbo_93631]

Love the smoothie,1590a's are fun to try and pull off cleanly.

[midwayfair]

That's beautiful, Timbo. I really like the way you've been doing the enclosures, and you deserve props for getting the jacks to fit properly like that even with a "larger" board.

[GrindCustoms]

Looks really nice, love the whole style around it

[Bret608]

I was just about to say, the style reminds me of Grind Customs a bit! 

You even have some carbon comp mojo on board, if my eyes aren't fooling me. Awesome!

[pickdropper]

Looks great.  Both the inside and outside.

I think Rej has started a trend with these enclosures.

[midwayfair]

I think Rej has started a trend with these enclosures.

To be fair, Timbo's been doing the sanded edges for a while. His mojo rangemaster in the auction has them, and that's multiple years old.

[pickdropper]

I think Rej has started a trend with these enclosures.

To be fair, Timbo's been doing the sanded edges for a while. His mojo rangemaster in the auction has them, and that's multiple years old.

Oops, my bad.  Sorry about that, Timbo. 

I stand by my statement about it looking good, tho.  :-)

[timbo_93631]

     Thanks for the compliments guys.  I am continually inspired to improve the outside and guts of my pedals by the quality of work you are all routinely putting out. 
     I really like the finishes Rej has been doing, especially with the letter punch.  Mine are based around one color sanded away, and namely it is a textured sparkle black rustoleum paint and then hand lettered with a paint pen, sanded again and buried in clear.  Rej is going for more of a multi color design sanding it away to make for some very lovely contrasts between the colors.  I think we both stumbled across the same thing at different times, and that is a distressed paint job has many happy accidents that look super cool! 
     The RM referenced by Jon was my first foray into keeping that as a finished look and even though I liked it alot I did a bunch more stuff trying to do sunbursts with a satin metallic soft gold paint and the textured sparkle black, like my Cosmonut Cosmopolitan, the first Space Verb and Smoothie I did awhile back too.  That eventually transformed into the distressed sparkle black that was on my Blueberry Drive Hotcake clone and quite a few of my MKII and MKIII Tonebenders too in the spring, so in reality I think Rej and I both decided to keep on with the sanded look at right around the same time.   I won't speak for him, but I recognize it as a powerful design element that holds it's own alongside the beautifully executed graphics that so many members here produce.  I don't have the skill or tools to do that kind of pro-graphics look, but I can get handy with sandpaper and paint pens!

[pickdropper]

     Thanks for the compliments guys.  I am continually inspired to improve the outside and guts of my pedals by the quality of work you are all routinely putting out. 
     I really like the finishes Rej has been doing, especially with the letter punch.  Mine are based around one color sanded away, and namely it is a textured sparkle black rustoleum paint and then hand lettered with a paint pen, sanded again and buried in clear.  Rej is going for more of a multi color design sanding it away to make for some very lovely contrasts between the colors.  I think we both stumbled across the same thing at different times, and that is a distressed paint job has many happy accidents that look super cool! 
     The RM referenced by Jon was my first foray into keeping that as a finished look and even though I liked it alot I did a bunch more stuff trying to do sunbursts with a satin metallic soft gold paint and the textured sparkle black, like my Cosmonut Cosmopolitan, the first Space Verb and Smoothie I did awhile back too.  That eventually transformed into the distressed sparkle black that was on my Blueberry Drive Hotcake clone and quite a few of my MKII and MKIII Tonebenders too in the spring, so in reality I think Rej and I both decided to keep on with the sanded look at right around the same time.   I won't speak for him, but I recognize it as a powerful design element that holds it's own alongside the beautifully executed graphics that so many members here produce.  I don't have the skill or tools to do that kind of pro-graphics look, but I can get handy with sandpaper and paint pens!

Classy response, Timbo.

Now that you mention your earlier builds by name, I can even remember the pictures of the sanded edges (particularly the Space Verb).  I never meant the comparison to Rej's finishing style to be a negative comment, but I had totally forgotten you had been doing it for a while.  Sorry about my goof.

[midwayfair]

heh. I just noticed that this song's in Pi/4ths.

[timbo_93631]

As a dyed in the wool math goober, phase shift pedals are mentally exciting.  When I was in Trig and we first went over Phase Shift with trig functions all I could think was, "I know what that sounds like!"  Radian measure as a time signature, now that is fun!

[icecycle66]

As a dyed in the wool math goober, phase shift pedals are mentally exciting.  When I was in Trig and we first went over Phase Shift with trig functions all I could think was, "I know what that sounds like!"  Radian measure as a time signature, now that is fun!

Nerd.

[timbo_93631]

As a dyed in the wool math goober, phase shift pedals are mentally exciting.  When I was in Trig and we first went over Phase Shift with trig functions all I could think was, "I know what that sounds like!"  Radian measure as a time signature, now that is fun!

Nerd.

Yep.  Pretty much!

[aballen]

I'm impressed with how you got that all done with bigger resistors, jacks, etc... and it still looks pretty damn clean!

[raulduke]

Nice build dude.

Very neat for a 1590A build as well; good stuff