I've seen several single and double tube pedals that have the tubes vertically oriented with a bar guard around them, and I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to make that work for the Black Eye. Has anyone else tried it at this point?
I specifically avoided that as I like to keep the tubes safely tucked inside the box. But if you're open to having them stick out the top then you'll have a lot more room for routing a board and can do a much cleaner layout than I did.
Yeah the majority of the DIY builds I see with guards like that are drawer handles. Not sure about the Effectrode ones though. I've owned a couple of their pedals (for tracing purposes) and they didn't seem like drawer handles, seemed custom fabbed. Don't know for sure though.