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Yo, I’m finally getting around to trying my hand at building my first amp, a Benson Monarch. Thanks again to demetris who was able to get me a layout and schematic. It’s still a work in progress, but here’s where I’m at so far… I measured the components, created a chassis template on Apple...

It’s also technically an enclosure too Thread 'Eqd Arrows Boost' https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/eqd-arrows-boost.15597/

Agreed that there’s no bad settings.

While I flood the thread with posts… I’ve used water slide decals, acid etching, and paint, but recently I’ve wanted to get some enclosures finished without the need for labels. So, I’ve been snapping the backs off enamel pins and epoxying those suckers down. And just for good measure...

Gitrbilder2010 I think most or all of his templates are fender scale length, but some neck pockets are a rounded strat style, some are more square tele templates. So watch out for that

And I knew somebody would expect a gut-shot. Recreation bumble bee capacitor. The volume pot is heat-shrunk because I was worried about the tolerance to the shielding and didn’t want any shorts.

Acid etched brass panels

Staggered tuners.

Pickup is an Arcane triple clone. The clean sounds are just OK, but with any kind of dirt or fuzz, it sounds awesome. Really impressed. There’s a partial coil cut, sending 1.2k to ground. My clear coat also cracked, probably because I used pre-catalyzed laquer. But what the hell, people pay...

After using a zero fret on my Meteora build, I’ll never go back. I cut a brass shim to fit behind it. Original plan was antique Pelham blue, but I ran into “motting” problems that left it blotchy. So I sanded and out down black primer. Then Testors metallic purple paint, which is...

Gold tone jescar frets. I polished the hell out of the aluminum panel to get it from matte to a near-mirror finish.

Bridge came from a Reverb seller. German carve was executed with a cabinet building router bit. That’s my dog too. When I was routing the headstock, I made a stupid move and tore out a piece from the end. That forced me to carve the edges. Getting those carves smooth and well worked became...

I sourced some birds eye maple and roasted alder. Fretboard from stew Mac. Unlike the original novo, I kept the fender scale length. The pickguard material was left over champagne gold acrylic from my Meteora build last year, and scrap aluminum sheet. I used the same method to make router...

Another non-pedal… For this one I made my own router template. I used a high-res image, and pasted it into an Apple pages document. I was able to cross reference fret distances and screw spacing on the bridge to make sure I was scaling the picture to the correct size. By using metric...

There’s a dude on EBay selling router templates for unique builds. That was intended for a Fano sp6. Last year I bought a Meteora template from him.

Think they were a little thicker than 2 inch originally. I only have an electric hand planer, so that was a pain to get down to 1 3/4

If you don’t include the cost of the neck that was paid for with my eBay flipping, my all-in cost was around $250

the bridge pickup is a Cavalier broadcaster style. I wax potted it with cedar balsam candles from Trader Joe’s. Neck pickup is Seymour Duncan that I got used from Amazon warehouse deals, along with the bridge. Pickguard was cut, and I drilled out my own panel so I didn’t have to live with a...

Looks like we’re taking the creative liberty of posting non-pedal builds in this thread, so here’s one of my summer projects. I had a few old pine slabs left over from when my house was built in 1955. Originally, I filled the cracks and worm holes with gold epoxy, and turned them into shelves...

Thanks. Did you use the same value pot in log, or did you change the value too?