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Thanks! Yeah, I use a punch set and hammer. I've definitely improved at it over time. Part of it is paying attention to how hard you're hitting the punches. For example, an "I" doesn't need as much force as a "B" due to the shape of the letters. The "I" goes in like a knife if you don't watch...

That and I have a box of completed boards that I started not knowing whether I'd like the circuits. I've put them on the test bed, spent five minutes with them, and concluded that they don't merit an enclosure. I'd probably like at least a couple of them if I spent more time with them. But I...

I thought I had something like that going on at first, but I think what is happening is that the aluminum gets slightly recessed around the stamped areas. Carryover from the stamp tips, I think, and a trace amount of paint stays behind. It really did look slightly stained or something. What got...

Muchas gracias! I have stacks of those from multiple different vendors. I still use them sometimes, but I dig the look of the hand-wired switch. And overdrive is definitely glorious. I'd build them all if I had the resources.

That turned out very cool. I think your just brown resistors away from having it look like a surplus board from Sputnik, which is cool... vintage energy and all.

You might already know this, but a lot of people "ink" their wrenches and sockets with nail polish. I've tried this, too, but I find it to be way more difficult to scrub it off the flat non-recessed areas than paint markers. Some tabletop game players ink their dice with crayon. It's more...

I know what you mean. Not with that pedal in particular, but some others that seemed like they should be really cool and just weren't. That said, context is everything with overdrives. Pickups, amp, what party favors have been ingested, etc. I suppose a TS808 might even sound good if the...

That's not how you spell "Red Snapper". YATSes are some of my favorite circuits, although the original has never done much for me. I'm definitely getting an Uber Drive now. I didn't realize it had that topology.

That's good to know. Sharpie paint markers are bad, in my experience, about drying up.

I'm all single-coil, all the time. And Fender amps. P90s are the closest I tread to humbuckers, though I keep hearing the siren call of FilterTrons trying to get some of my cash.

It's black paint from a paint maker. One of these: https://a.co/d/05F5IxH1. I was shopping for black just yesterday and only saw the whole set on Amazon. I nabbed the one I've been using from my wife. I like it because it's glossier than Sharpie's black paint marker. I don't think I'll splash...

Miami?

I've been playing (with) guitar(s) since the '80s, and I've never played an SD-1. I guess I'll put an Uber in my cart. Thumbs up to the straight box caps; they're satisfying to see.

I put this one together over the weekend. It might wind up in Troubleshooting, because of rampant LFO issues, but I've read some pointers from @Chuck D. Bones regarding capacitor swap outs and higher gain transistors I'll try first. That said, in the narrow range that it works properly, I'm...

He did you up. It looks magnificent. And nice choices on the knobs for proportion and color coordination.

You are obviously a man of taste and good-breeding.

Man, that's my aesthetic right there. It's coming off as seafoam-green on my screen, and if there's any better color, I haven't seen it yet. And the knob choices and toggle-bat covers assert, "Proudly Analog," to anyone who glances in that direction. Outstanding.

Many thanks! My world tour consists of my garage and my bedroom, but I occasionally like to throw my gear around for old times' sake. Yeah, I lost a pad recently desoldering a DIP8 socket, and I was not pleased. I can see the merit in leaving the sockets.

If I socket the IC too soon I might skip my obligatory ritual of hooking up a new build without any semiconductors in it and wondering briefly why it only works in bypass.

Thank you. I thought something like that might be the case, but it's good to hear from folks with more knowledge.