Angry Charlie V3

[Hexjibber]

Hullo! Hope everyone is keeping well!

Latest build is an Angry Charlie, needed some snarly distortion on my board and being a total mids junkie the 3 band EQ and Marshall lineage sounded up my street! Sounds great, more or less exactly what I was after, more open and aggressive than my OCD and stacks well with my Timmy. Reverse etched and painted then sparklerised with glitter spray!

Almost ballsed up the pot placement/drilling by being too close to the screw inserts, didn't have any fancy pot condoms to hand so electrical tape had to do!

 

[music6000]

Pro Finish!
Stay Well!

 

[RT Custom]

Inside, looks better than some professional stompboxes.

Personally, i don't like prefabricated PCB, i like to make my own PCB, and i use 100% hand made wooden stompboxes.

This is my build:

 

[Hexjibber]

Inside, looks better than some professional stompboxes.

Personally, i don't like prefabricated PCB, i like to make my own PCB, and i use 100% hand made wooden stompboxes.

This is my build:

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Nice! That looks really good!

 

[music6000]

Inside, looks better than some professional stompboxes.

Personally, i don't like prefabricated PCB, i like to make my own PCB, and i use 100% hand made wooden stompboxes.

This is my build:

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Hi
Impressive Build, but I have to ask why show it here if you personally don't like Prefabricated PCB's & you use a Wooden Box?

 

[RT Custom]

Hi
Impressive Build, but I have to ask why show it here if you personally don't like Prefabricated PCB's & you use a Wooden Box?

I like hand made PCB not factory made, that i want to say on my bad english!
I don't understand, where to post my builds? Thanx!

 

[music6000]

Very Nice Work, RT Custom!
What part of the world do you live?

 

[TheSin]

Nice! Love the wooden enclosure!

I like hand made PCB not factory made, that i want to say on my bad english!
I don't understand, where to post my builds? Thanx!
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[Gordo]

Wow, that's beautiful!!!

 

[Barry]

Hullo! Hope everyone is keeping well!

Latest build is an Angry Charlie, needed some snarly distortion on my board and being a total mids junkie the 3 band EQ and Marshall lineage sounded up my street! Sounds great, more or less exactly what I was after, more open and aggressive than my OCD and stacks well with my Timmy. Reverse etched and painted then sparklerised with glitter spray!

Almost ballsed up the pot placement/drilling by being too close to the screw inserts, didn't have any fancy pot condoms to hand so electrical tape had to do!

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Great job as always!

 

[Barry]

I like hand made PCB not factory made, that i want to say on my bad english!
I don't understand, where to post my builds? Thanx!
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Beautiful work

 

[benny_profane]

This is Walnut wood. Beside wallnut i I use several types of wood like Europe Hawthorn which is extremely rare in thickness for making pedals and in last time i use hardwood like black locust which looks very nice in the final finish:

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Rather than hijacking the original @Hexjibber thread, please make a new thread for your builds.

 

[RT Custom]

It is beautiful, but I don’t get the relevance here

On many occasions in DIY community, there is a correction in the schematic of a certain pedal and if i make handmade PCB there is no prob to make another one with corrected traces, but, if i buy a factory made PCB according to the old schematic, I can throw it away if a new corrected schematic appears. That's the point!

 

[benny_profane]

@Hexjibber Beautiful and inspiring work (as always!). I think that you can lose the electrical tape without worry: if they touch the sides of the enclosure, it won't matter since everything involved is at a ground potential.

 

[RT Custom]

Rather than hijacking the original @Hexjibber thread, please make a new thread for your builds.

Sorry! I will!

 

[Hexjibber]

@Hexjibber Beautiful and inspiring work (as always!). I think that you can lose the electrical tape without worry: if they touch the sides of the enclosure, it won't matter since everything involved is at a ground potential.

Thanks! And also thanks again! I didn’t realise that was the case when it came to the pots, just a lack of understanding and inbuilt fear of something shorting out I think!

 

[benny_profane]

Thanks! And also thanks again! I didn’t realise that was the case when it came to the pots, just a lack of understanding and inbuilt fear of something shorting out I think!

The main concern with the pots shorting against anything is if there is a risk of shorting against the solder-side of the board. Since these pots extend past the board, there is no risk there. Also, your power input and your signal I/O jacks have sufficient clearance so that is not a concern either. There’s no harm in having the tape there, just a bit unnecessary in this situation.

 

[Hexjibber]

The main concern with the pots shorting against anything is if there is a risk of shorting against the solder-side of the board. Since these pots extend past the board, there is no risk there. Also, your power input and your signal I/O jacks have sufficient clearance so that is not a concern either. There’s no harm in having the tape there, just a bit unnecessary in this situation.

Good to know, cheers!

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

Looks great!

 

[Sasan]

Looks fantastic! I just read your blog on etching...will definitely try.
How does the reverse etching work? Did you basically etched away all the part that's in red sparkle?