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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...