Rustbunny: a Tale of Two Jons (midwayfair enclosure within!)

[lincolnic]

Last December, midwayfair did an extremely generous PIF and I was lucky enough to receive one of his hand-painted enclosures. I was already interested in his Rustbunny (modified Sam Ash Fuzztainer) circuit, so I knew that's what I had to put in this box.

After spending a couple of months unable to decide on what I wanted the artwork to be, I eventually told Jon to just go ahead and do whatever he wanted; I trust him. While he was working on that, I went ahead and built the circuit on vero from the Tagboard Effects layout. Work and other real life stuff kept me from wiring it up for a while, but I finally finished it on Monday.

It's hard to take a good photo due to the lighting in my room, but I think you guys will get the general idea that this is a pretty rad enclosure:



What you unfortunately miss due to my poor photography are some of the finer details: bits of metallic silver in the clouds, some gold in the grass, definition on the birds, etc. It's pretty obvious that Jon put exactly as much care into this box as he does for his own builds, and I'm so grateful to him for this. I'm not great at decorating my own builds, so it means a lot to me to have an enclosure he painted. I've been a fan of his work for as long as he's been showing it off.



Like most of my vero builds, the wiring for this started out neater but then got away from me a little in the boxing. The wires to the gain knob in particular were supposed to be a bit more elegant. At least the switch wiring is fairly tidy!

As for the sound of the pedal, Jon's original demo does a much better job of showing it off than I could, so I'll repost that here:

Big thanks again to Jon for the enclosure, and for the circuit design. I'm really enjoying the sound of this one just as much as I enjoy looking at it!

[TGP39]

Beautiful build. Way to go Jon. Love the paint job. LOVE IT.

[midwayfair]

Yay! 

[Leevibe]

That is totally sweet. Nice job to the both of you.

[alanp]

Open page, ooh, a new Midwayfair build! Nice, nice, nice art, lots of text. Right, let's start reading.

What? It's NOT a completely Midwayfair build? Took me by surprise She's a good 'un.

[wgc]

Love it!

[lincolnic]

Open page, ooh, a new Midwayfair build! Nice, nice, nice art, lots of text. Right, let's start reading.

What? It's NOT a completely Midwayfair build? Took me by surprise She's a good 'un.

Up to a certain point, Jons may be interchangeable...but let's not kid ourselves, I couldn't have painted that enclosure.

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. If any of you are the least bit interested in this circuit, I highly recommend it. It's a lot of fun!

[gtr2]

Awesome

[Stomptown]

Looks great! I think it was very fitting that you decided to put vero in a Mudwayfair custom enclosure!

[lincolnic]

Looks great! I think it was very fitting that you decided to put vero in a Mudwayfair custom enclosure!

If I really wanted to do the guy justice, I would've built it on perf...but I don't trust myself to take on perf builds yet.

[rullywowr]

Looks great! I think it was very fitting that you decided to put vero in a Mudwayfair custom enclosure!

If I really wanted to do the guy justice, I would've built it on perf...but I don't trust myself to take on perf builds yet.

Perf only if absolutely required.

Nice job!  Love the build. 

[Stomptown]

Looks great! I think it was very fitting that you decided to put vero in a Mudwayfair custom enclosure!

If I really wanted to do the guy justice, I would've built it on perf...but I don't trust myself to take on perf builds yet.

Well I think vero is close enough!  I tried perf once and decided very quickly to leave that to the other Jon. 

[alanp]

In some ways, perf is easier to work with than veroboard. You never hear of problems with non-broken tracks on perf, after all.

[selfdestroyer]

Now thats something to cherish.

Cody