The Britannia

[selfdestroyer]

I went with a traditional Vox look. I am very pleased with this build and It sounds great. I think I may spend some time with the J201's and see if I can either bias it a little better or see if I may have fake 201's. They can get a bit fizzy at certain settings. I love how you can kill a lot of the bass and bring up the brilliance and it can nail the sounds of Johnny Marr's Smiths licks.





just noticed how much the lighting sucked.. sorry.


Cody

[alanp]

Love you man, you get the shitty-old-photo look that hipsters with stretched earlobes deliberately apply to good photos, and you're not happy with that (I like good photos myself, not keen on the hipstermatic app thing.)

I think this is the first Britannia report we've had. I'm tempted to build one to compare to my English Channel -- that thing was unusable for my purposes, with the stupid amount of gain in it.

[billstein]

Wow. Love that retro Vox look.

[Mich P]

That etching !
Mich P.

[Thomas_H]

This is really looking great - inside and outside!

[micromegas]

That was fast!

Love the look of it.

[gtr2]

Looks great!

Josh

[pryde]

Just fantastic!

Do you lay the enclosure face-down on a piece of glass/solid flat surface when sanding the paint off the raised areas?

However you do it great job on not sanding any paint from the relief areas. Very pro looking

[peAk]

a-ma-zing

[slimtriggers]

WOW!  Great etch!!

[Cortexturizer]

INSANE
I love it. You do such a great work, I'd buy any of your stuff in a heartbeat

[midwayfair]

That enclosure is amazing.

AlanP: This thing has a much wider range of gain than the EC. It's a huge improvement.

[raulduke]

Looks awesome.

This new circuit intrigues me. Another overdrive to add to the 'must try' list!

[rullywowr]

Cody, you really nailed this one.  The etch is absolutely gorgeous, and the insides look so clean.  Top notch work!

[selfdestroyer]

Thanks everyone for the kind words. I was between builds and noticed I had everything to get this one done so I jumped on it.

Do you lay the enclosure face-down on a piece of glass/solid flat surface when sanding the paint off the raised areas?
However you do it great job on not sanding any paint from the relief areas. Very pro looking

I use 1000 grit on a rubber sanding block that I just use softly to get 80% of the paint off the raised areas. I then take a scrap of 1000 grit and do the rest by hand. Sandpaper folded and use of a finger. I found that it is important to sand in the same direction on aluminum or else the light reflects off it weird.

If your not careful (Like I have done many times) you can get your self in trouble with sanding and repainting and sanding again and taking the raised area right off. Also learned that even if I use the oven to cure the paint it still needs to cure over night or else you will get the sandpaper fragments/dust stuck in the paint. Makes black marks on the paint.

Also learned that the matte clear coat I use will fill any fine sanding marks caused by the 1000 grit. So if your paint looks a bit dull after the sanding it will come back to life with some clear coat. I always use matte clear since I'm not a huge fan of super shinny pedals.

Thanks again guys for the encouragement.

Cody