Oh yeah - definitely drill AFTER etching. The one in the pic ended up getting thrown away. I had originally planned to powder coat the enclosures and changed my mind after I drilled. Bad idea.
There is definitely a learning curve! Try it on some scrap boxes first if you have any available. I tried going cheap on the toner transfer paper and it failed every time. Use the blue stuff, its worth the extra $. Also, it sticks to the aluminum better when it has been sanded semi smooth and...
The Spirit Box was my first pedal from PedalPCB. I modded it with an infinite dwell momentary footswitch as per DanBieranowski’s post which definitely made it more spacey sounding. So I decided it was now known as a “Space Ghost Echo”. This was also my first etching attempt, which turned out far...
I've never built anything with an FV-1 chip, but I have a number of boards queued up which require them. They seem to be out of stock fairly often, though.
If I buy the FV-1 chips from other sources will they still work? I can't tell from initial research if there is anything loaded onto them...