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Yeah - it's surprising since I often see Aion highly recommended. The build docs and kit were great as a beginner, but now the boards are not my favorite. I do like that the pedals aren't straight clones and have some nice quality of life adjustments.

The scratches and marks fit with the 70s/80s feel, I think (at least in the photos). Reminds me of my old Atari 2600.

This is my build of the AionFX Lithium, which is based on the EHX Small Clone. It's a fairly complicated build for a no-nonsense pedal. I decided to build this pedal as gift - so I ended up making two. After all, if I'm ordering all the parts, designing the enclosure, and assembling, might as...

I like the prints! Clever that the Mini has the biggest text.

This is a build of the Gravitation Reverb, based on the Earthquaker Devices Levitation Reverb. It was a surprisingly easy build - my first reverb, and my first belton brick build. I chose to call this the Kestral Reverb due to the "Levitation" name of the original pedal. Kestrals have a...

This is a build of the Blue Shoe Gai Pan, based on the JHS PG-14. I chose this build because it seemed to be popular on the forum and I figured that was a good indicator of a fun experience and useful pedal. The original pedal has a blue shoe, this is the Blue Shoe Gai Pan - what bird could...

This is a build of the Mach 1 Overdrive, based on the Greer Lightspeed Overdrive. This is a pretty transparent overdrive and the board is simple. Since the theme of both pedals is speed, I decided that a good namesake bird would be the Swift (specifically a Common Swift), which is literally a...

I took a short trip to Venus this morning. Beautiful! I think it may be my favorite so far.

I've struggled a bit with finding the right knobs within budget (around $1/each). For most of my "final" builds I feel that aluminum is mostprofessional. And I prefer the smaller ones to leave more room for the print (so 12.5mm outside diameter) with a set screw so they can fit on any...

The Seabed Delay is a clone of the Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay. This is a surprisingly simple pedal that sounds great. This pedal has a watery undersea sourt of sound, but I decided that was too on-the-nose for my theme (I could have done a seabird), so I went with one of the deepest-blue...

This is a version of the Shika Fuzz, based on the EQD Hizumitas. The Hizumitas (very popular on the guitar pedals subreddit) was one of the first pedals I tried playing in a store, and one of the first I was interested in making when I discovered PedalPCB. The traditional Hizumitas design has...

Not sure if this is it (Robert's guess seems more relevant), but many of the lugs on the footswitch barely look soldered to my eyes. I usually flood them with solder, similar to the one in the lower left corner.

This is a build of the Dung Beetle, based on the Basic Audio Scarab Deluxe. I chose to style and name this based on the Egyptian God Horus, whose head is that of a peregrine falcon, to fit with the Egyptian style of the Scarab and Dung Beetle. The enclosure is painted with Tayda's metallic light...

My first build report! I've called this the Pelagia. It's a Caesar Chorus (based on the Walrus Julia). The name and theme is based on the pelagic cormorant, a common diving water bird that I thought fit the watery tone and style of the original pedal. Where I live, you can often see these birds...

I was planning on 15mm knobs, but might try something smaller. I'm ok with the drill marks being slightly off (I'm just using a hand drill so I'm not super-precise anyway). My process to draw the marks was to take a screenshot of the drill template from the pdf and then paste it in... but i...

Thanks for checking again! It was a huge pain trying to get things to align with the edge of the artboard (particularly with a bunch of slightly misaligned layers already there). If others have the same problem, Smart guides (Ctrl+U) helped a lot. As did deleting most of the subtly misaligned...

Thanks Brett - that was a great review. I think I accidentally unclicked "Create Acrobat Layers from Top-Level Layers". Opening a different template with Acrobat, I can see a "layers" icon, but I couldn't see it for this file. So I think I know how to validate that I've set layers correctly in...

Good idea, I'll add the gloss layer. There are CMYK swatches? I just set the document color mode to CMYK...

Thanks for looking. No gloss on this one . My main concern was if different colors overlapped and whether I used swatches correctly.

I've made a few pedals with regular enclosures - now I'd like to try UV printing for the first time (for a Caesar pedal). I have a lot of Photoshop experience, but have rarely used Illustrator. Since I'd done the artwork already in Photoshop, I ended up taking a somewhat different approach than...