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I built the Je T’aime as a bit of an experiment. Part 1 was to build something that was basically the fewest parts to make an op-amp work, and Part 2, make fit in a 1590A enclosure. This circuit is the jumping off point for a million variations so I figured I’d build it stock first and then mess...

I’m finally getting around to finishing pedals I started last year. Wanting a Vox-In-A-Box, I decided to build the Acetylene Overdrive. I populated the board back around Thanksgiving, did the off-board wiring back in December, and did the paint in January. I need to demo it a little more but...

Finally getting one of the pedals finished. This is the second Tommy III I’ve built. The first one I made was, for all intents and purposes, commandeered from me by my 21 year old son. I’ve had him demo just about everything I’ve built so far and then picked his brain on his favorites, with the...

I finally got these two finished. I started them over the summer but I needed a couple components that didn’t get ordered earlier. I built them simultaneously and basically tested them back to back. The Deluxe is definitely Fendery with a clean tone that will break up when you crank it. The...

I’m happy with how this one turned out. Since this is a reissue of the Op Amp Big Muff with a Smashing Pumpkins tie in and coloring on the original, I decided to do some word play on both and ended up with Pumpkin Pi(e). Build is stock, but the whipped cream ended up about perfect.

Another finished up today. I couldn’t think of anything creative to do graphically, so instead I went stock. Plus there’s no mistaking what it is. No mods, just stock.

When I decided to build this one I read a few threads here where discussing C10 in the build. C10 is an optional 10u capacitor on the original units but not on newer models. Rather that just put it on a switch, I used someone else’s suggestion and added a third option of another capacitor...

The other board I have on hand to get started is the Kliche Mini. Just populating the small parts so far. One of the precious, magical, NOS 1N34A Germanium diodes broke bending the legs. The glass just snapped in half. Soldering maybe tomorrow.

I’m waiting for more PCBs to come in but I have a couple to get started on. Not sexy, but useful. This will be the first one I document in real time on the board. So far just populating the pcb with the small components.

This one is the last of that first series that I made! I’ll stop bombarding the forum with my posts for a while! I wanted a straight forward bass overdrive, so this seemed like an easy choice. It’s the stock circuit, but after building this, I realized I could have done the same thing with the...

I was tempted to go straight to modding this build but better sense took over and I built it stock. I think that means I need to make another and do the fat mod and a few other things to it.

Another one that was a classic circuit to crank out in my first series of pedal builds. This one went together as planned with no mods or changing anything from stock. And because I really wasn’t feeling creative on the enclosure design, it had to be identifiable as an ODR-1

This one is the other half of wanting a Pork And Pickle. Instead of the IC I went with the four 2N3904s, I already had some from another build. Paint and graphics seemed straight forward enough. Gotta get the cat hair off the pedals before photos!

Building a compressor was high on my list and a clean blend was part of my desired features, so the Median seemed an obvious choice. I subbed LM833N ICs instead of the OP1678 chips based on a few threads here. Again, like the couple other simultaneous builds, I wanted to keep the design similar...

My Cleaver build. Simple, few parts, but very tweakable.

As a bass player, I was a fan of the Pork And Pickle, so I decided to make one of each. I went with the original transistors, and while I can read a data sheet, I have to say a big thank you to others on this forum for posting their builds. I was hesitant of the pinout and orientation of the...

Here’s my build. I kept it stock and wanted to keep it aesthetically similar to the original so I went with the gold hammered paint, cream knobs and a graphic that was close enough to a Roman candle.

After I built the first couple pedals, I jumped full in and started building standards in the basic food groups of pedals. Here’s the first of several that I started in December but just recently finished with paint and graphics. The Tommy III is a Timmy, so I took the claymation route.

I just got into building pedals back in December and then moved in January, so now that I’ve got a few things completed, I figured I’ll say hi, and share what I’ve done. For my first pedals I build an Alpaca, a Mahayana, and two Muroidea Rat pedals. A friend of mine’s rat stopped working and I...