aion Cerulean - Morning Glory

[Jakes Dad]

Almost finished this one up this afternoon - everything except the final finish.  An aion Cerulean - a Blues Breaker clone with a half ton of options.  Built this one to Morning Glory specs with the bright cut and populated the selectable clipping with 2 x 3mm green LEDs and 2 x 1N4001s + 1 x 1N914 for now - they're socketed so I've got plenty of play potential.  Here's the box:


And the guts - nice and tidy thanks to the on-board pots and switches:


Chuck

[jkokura]

Love the finish on that one Chuck, and it's so clean inside too. I think I'm gonna try that sanded top with the painted sides trick sometime. I really like the look, with the matching knobs on top.

Jacob

[selfdestroyer]

Agreed, very cool look. I might give that one a try also. Looks very clean. Also, the Morning Glory clone I built has not left my board just under a year. I love just love the sound of the Bluesbreaker and the mods really bring it to life.

[playpunk]

How do you like the led clipping?


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[lincolnic]

That's a very cool look. I'll have to try it sometime!

[Jakes Dad]

How do you like the led clipping?


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In this case they they really didn't work all that well.  Maybe just the green ones (first time using those) but the were fizzy, like that makes sense, and the 1N4001/1N4148 combo was too harsh for my tastes.  I've got a par of OA128s in the first set and BAT46s in the second now - I like those better but still may try others later.

Chuck

[billstein]

Love the finish on that one Chuck, and it's so clean inside too. I think I'm gonna try that sanded top with the painted sides trick sometime. I really like the look, with the matching knobs on top.

Jacob

Yep. Definitely going to have to try this look. Really nice Chuck.
Where did you get those knobs?

[Jakes Dad]

Love the finish on that one Chuck, and it's so clean inside too. I think I'm gonna try that sanded top with the painted sides trick sometime. I really like the look, with the matching knobs on top.

Jacob

Yep. Definitely going to have to try this look. Really nice Chuck.
Where did you get those knobs?

Thanks guys.

You know, I had other plans for the top but I'm thinking, based on the compliments, it will get a little more polish, minimal labeling and be done. 

The knobs came from Small Bear - http://www.smallbearelec.com/servlet/Detail?no=1038

Chuck

[billstein]

Love the finish on that one Chuck, and it's so clean inside too. I think I'm gonna try that sanded top with the painted sides trick sometime. I really like the look, with the matching knobs on top.

Jacob

Yep. Definitely going to have to try this look. Really nice Chuck.
Where did you get those knobs?

Thanks guys.

You know, I had other plans for the top but I'm thinking, based on the compliments, it will get a little more polish, minimal labeling and be done. 

The knobs came from Small Bear - http://www.smallbearelec.com/servlet/Detail?no=1038

Chuck

I worked as an artist for years and one of the hardest things to know is when to stop. I've ruined some nice pieces by thinking it needed just one more thing. I think you nailed this one.

[aion]

Amazing! I'll be the fourth or fifth person to mention that the consistency between the knobs and the finish is awesome.