jhaneyzz
Well-known member
Always out for ways to be different I have been searching for an alternative to standard LEDs for awhile.
I wanted to use marbles as a lens/jewel thing but even the smallest standard marbles are 5/8" which takes up way too much space inside the enclosure unless you are building a fuzz, or really simple PCB.
I came across some cool orangey-red mini marbles in a strange little store in Bonner Springs Kansas but only found about 5 little runt marbles that were not a standard item. besides, 99.9% of "marbles" have some swirly opaque element in them that i don't really like.
After literally a month and a half of scouring the amazon, ebay and etsy (just stay away from etsy if you are trying to retrace my steps unless you want to pay $25 per marble.)
I FINALLY found these 12mm Carnelian spheres (key is searching for "spheres" not "marbles" or "beads") that are wicked cool.....
I really want 12mm amber colored spheres, but all I could find were legit "Amber" spheres. Amber is much more rare than Carnelian and *sigh* nearly always has the encapsulated guts of some insect inside making it every more valuable, but kinda cringy as part of a guitar pedal IMHO.
I was about to punt and just make some half spheres of tinted epoxy resin before I found these.
So the decision was between A) manufacturing epoxy or B) hand mounting semi-precious stone spheres on my enclosures.
If you don't know how I decided B over A, you haven't gotten to know me very well yet...
Cheers.
Jimbo
I wanted to use marbles as a lens/jewel thing but even the smallest standard marbles are 5/8" which takes up way too much space inside the enclosure unless you are building a fuzz, or really simple PCB.
I came across some cool orangey-red mini marbles in a strange little store in Bonner Springs Kansas but only found about 5 little runt marbles that were not a standard item. besides, 99.9% of "marbles" have some swirly opaque element in them that i don't really like.
After literally a month and a half of scouring the amazon, ebay and etsy (just stay away from etsy if you are trying to retrace my steps unless you want to pay $25 per marble.)
I FINALLY found these 12mm Carnelian spheres (key is searching for "spheres" not "marbles" or "beads") that are wicked cool.....
I really want 12mm amber colored spheres, but all I could find were legit "Amber" spheres. Amber is much more rare than Carnelian and *sigh* nearly always has the encapsulated guts of some insect inside making it every more valuable, but kinda cringy as part of a guitar pedal IMHO.
I was about to punt and just make some half spheres of tinted epoxy resin before I found these.
So the decision was between A) manufacturing epoxy or B) hand mounting semi-precious stone spheres on my enclosures.
If you don't know how I decided B over A, you haven't gotten to know me very well yet...
Cheers.
Jimbo
