Fuchsia Fuzz (BJFE / Bearfoot FX Pink Purple Fuzz)

darwin999

darwin999

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5.00 star(s)
Here's my build in a Tayda Viva Magenta colored 125B w/ purple knobs and LED.
I've switched to UV printed vinyl stickers for my enclosure art, followed by 2 layers of sprayed satin lacquer.
Super easy to install, very crisp fine details (printed from SVGs), and wonderful colors. (Also quite affordable!)
And absolutely no bleed through from the enclosure's color underneath.
The stickers probably wouldn't hold up under a ton of hard gigging, but my effects get an easy life at home where the hardest shoe they'll face is probably a flip flop.
Q1 is a metal can 2N4393 JFET.
Q3 is a reclaimed TI 2N1306 I picked up years back, w/ hfe=100 and 35µA leakage.
A very easy build - another great PCB from @Robert.
(Only teeny quibble is that I think the build doc's schematic has reversed the labels for pins 1 and 3 of Q3.)


Fuchsia Fuzz : Pink Purple Fuzz (front).jpg Fuchsia Fuzz : Pink Purple Fuzz (guts).jpg
 
VanWhy said:
Nice build! What are you using for your UV printed vinyl stickers?
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I have a huge backlog of PCBs to build, so I made designs for 20+ boxes and sent design SVGs to a company I found on Etsy. There were a handful of companies that offered UV printed vinyl stickers, and I decided to try out a Hong Kong vendor named Herper Tailor. I chose them in part because of good reviews and the pictures of their products, but also because they quickly responded in detail to some questions I sent them beforehand. Oh, and they were having a discounted sale, too.

Here's a pic of some of the printed labels they made:
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The clear background on most labels doesn't show well here because of the whitish backing layer, although you can tell the difference between the off-white backing layer vs the pure white on the OC-1 label at upper right. All colors areas come with a underlayer of white to avoid seeing any colors underneath (i.e., of the enclosure). On all labels (including lettering), the actual sticker is only the color-printed part w/ ~0.5mm of clear surround. On my labels designs, I had a design for the entire enclosure's top and end, plus I included some duplicates of individual labels/etc in case I f*'d up in applying the main sticker. Now that I understand how to apply them, in future orders I'll be more bold and won't include the duplicate text - that way I can get more labels per square foot. But even so, the labels per enclosure ended up costing me $1.30 - although they were having a pretty good sale.

Hope this helps.


Added note: You might note that my designs include undersized rings for the various pot and switch holes. They are there just to help me with aligning the stickers on the enclosure during application. But being undersized, none of them actually stick to the enclosure or end up in the finished product.

(edited for clarity)
 
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