I have a serious problem...

Collect the stupid things like baseball cards, got a spreadsheet to keep it straight.

Got 40 or so as don't think I updated it with my last order waiting to remember why I bought them and build them.
7 boards in the "In-Process" Section--5 just need to be put in boxes and wired
20 In the completed section

Here's the scary part--Only started messing with these and finished my first build end of January 21. Been a cold winter........ Looking at the pile of old amps that need to be finished or amp projects to be started these are much easier and entertaining as somebody did all the hard design work.

but now summer is here and it's bass fishing season--will spend some afternoons in the basement workshop but hopefully spend most of my summer on the water till it freezes. Then will lock myself in the basement again

Ag
 
I usually sit in quiet when working on a build [except when testing!]. It's akin to contrast defining perspective. The peacefulness opposed to the busyness of the world.
 
fig said:
I usually sit in quiet when working on a build [except when testing!]. It's akin to contrast defining perspective. The peacefulness opposed to the busyness of the world.
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I listen to those playlists that Spotify creates based on your other listening habits. I've got a really good 90's indie playlist that is my favorite, but a close second is the one that's a weird mix of new wave, 90's alternative, folk, pop rock. That one will jump from Nick Lowe to Gary Numan to Blaze Foley followed up by Elvis Costello and Margo Guryan and then they hit you with Devo. It's fantastic.
 
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Okay so I started out learning to modify pedals and then morphed to building them when I discovered GPCB, so I built a few of his and everytime he had one of those multii board deals I'd order it (sometimes accidentally more than once and that was way to often) I then discovered PPCB boards and found them much easier to finish as the offboard wiring was minimal, thank God he doesn't have those crazy sales, but I have accumalated probably 50 or so projects I'm working through and since changing my work flow to doing graphics first I'm actually completing more pedals, so back to the GPCB boards, I wasn't doing Graphics then until the board was ready for the enclosure and as a result have a dozen or so populated boards laying around awaiting graphics, enclosure and off board wiring, and probably close to a hundred boards I've never touched, many of them duplicates or bonus boards and probably some I'll never build because they're something I wasn't really interested in but were in one of those multi-board sales, there I feel better now
 
I have never been a Hoarder except for Pedals!!!
Once I start a PCB, I will not work on another PCB unless a Component I missed is a week away from arriving.
My enclosures are already Drilled & Painted, Artwork is finished ready to install PCB.
 
music6000 said:
I have never been a Hoarder except for Pedals!!!
Once I start a PCB, I will not work on another PCB unless a Component I missed is a week away from arriving.
My enclosures are already Drilled & Painted, Artwork is finished ready to install PCB.
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That tends to be me workflow now
 
As for enclosures I have boxes of those too, I ordered from here and there, mostly from Pedal Parts Plus I think when new owners put a lot of old stock on sale crazy cheap
 
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I have 20 or so boards done and waiting for an enclosure, not counting the 10 printed and ready to go enclosures that I need to box up. Thinking about that is not fun lol.

I can't force myself to sit on my hands and not populate + solder boards right when I get them as long as I have the components so I don't have a stash of completely unfinished pcbs. Closest I have is ~4 with only resistors soldered in.
 
music6000 said:
I have never been a Hoarder except for Pedals!!!
Once I start a PCB, I will not work on another PCB unless a Component I missed is a week away from arriving.
My enclosures are already Drilled & Painted, Artwork is finished ready to install PCB.
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How is this possible? My method is build play and then let the pedal judge me for not painting it. Then after I have about 10 or fifty to paint I start warming up the brush and get to work. Any other method is so much easier but I work best backwards.
 
I noticed that Small Bear's stock of 125B bottom-plates was dwindling..so I swooped up fifty of them today.
(I use them as face-plates instead: Deflector )

As for my personal back-log of PCB's- no way am I going to count all of those!

Though it seems obsessive/excessive/ridiculous from time to time, I remind myself that without us, the customers enthusiastically funding our beloved hobby, the DIY PCB designers would have less support & encouragement to make our hobby even cooler. I see no problem with any of us.
 
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I noticed that Small Bear's stock of 125B bottom-plates was dwindling..so I swooped up fifty of them today.
(I use them as face-plates instead: Deflector )

As for my personal back-log of PCB's- no way am I going to count all of those!

Though it seems obsessive/excessive/ridiculous from time to time, I remind myself that without us, the customers enthusiastically funding our beloved hobby, the DIY PCB designers would have less support & encouragement to make our hobby even cooler. I see no problem with any of us.
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I love the idea of using the enclosure that way. Gives it a kind of industrial look with the screws there. Nice.
 
Bobbyd67 said:
Holy crap you got that parasit studio synth thingy xD you're one courageous man xD just the thought of soldering one of the LED a bit crooked would give me nightmares xD
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I solder in row by row making sure everything lined up. I am trying to find some time to get the enclosure built, its going to be epic.
 
Barry said:
Okay so I started out learning to modify pedals and then morphed to building them when I discovered GPCB, so I built a few of his and everytime he had one of those multii board deals I'd order it (sometimes accidentally more than once and that was way to often) I then discovered PPCB boards and found them much easier to finish as the offboard wiring was minimal, thank God he doesn't have those crazy sales, but I have accumalated probably 50 or so projects I'm working through and since changing my work flow to doing graphics first I'm actually completing more pedals, so back to the GPCB boards, I wasn't doing Graphics then until the board was ready for the enclosure and as a result have a dozen or so populated boards laying around awaiting graphics, enclosure and off board wiring, and probably close to a hundred boards I've never touched, many of them duplicates or bonus boards and probably some I'll never build because they're something I wasn't really interested in but were in one of those multi-board sales, there I feel better now
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I can relate... All too bloody well on just about all counts!

I'm going to need to give-away/sell pedals just to reduce my redundant GPCB orders. Do I really need 7 of GPCB "X" or 5 of GPCB "Y" and speaking of Y, why 10+ of GPCB "Zed"? I've stopped frequenting the site, I've got just about one of every project GPCB's ever offered including the ones I'm not interested in — WTH am I gonna do with another MoRC? I'm a bass player and Dyna-Ross & clumpany circuits are notorious for robbing lows.


You've gotta compare schematics too, often a cap and resistor are reversed in order making a high-pass a low-pass or vice versy, that sort of thing or the same board given a new name and a couple of tweaks to values: Diamond Drive, 69-Stones, V6. Buy any one of those three and you can build the other two — nothing wrong with that, just wish it was made more clear up front. Two toggles for a total of six combo positions but where two of those positions are "off" doesn't mean you've got six options, there's only 5 (including off). 😸

I still love a lot of the GPCB projects, and especially the little add-on/mod boards. I like the Muff boards, versatile. Prefer some of the older 3PDT-included such as the Mammoth and Anderton Dual Voice Filter (but the 3PDT was off-centre in the PCB, why?), DVF is durned cool in my book.

I'm glad you feel better, now I feel better, too.


dawson said:
I noticed that Small Bear's stock of 125B bottom-plates was dwindling..so I swooped up fifty of them today.
(I use them as face-plates instead: Deflector )

As for my personal back-log of PCB's- no way am I going to count all of those!

Though it seems obsessive/excessive/ridiculous from time to time, I remind myself that without us, the customers enthusiastically funding our beloved hobby, the DIY PCB designers would have less support & encouragement to make our hobby even cooler. I see no problem with any of us.
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You get extras in case you mess up etching a plate ? OR you just build on the plates and molex connect whatever pedals you need into your very cool custom board? That's a great idea. Cheaper than buying the complete enclosure, too, I bet.

I've got a couple of builds slated for the plate style, one is a square-wave fuzz. Hope I can get all the pieces together, and time...






I have an embarrassing plethora of PCBs to get to. I filled the "PCB" drawers in one of my component shelving units and had to start using a shoebox, but the shoebox is full now. There's still some PCB suppliers I haven't even touched upon yet that I want to grab a bunch of circuits from them.

I get an idea, I get excited, I start assembling all the materials into a cleaned-out sour-cream tub or take-out container ... then need some piece of the puzzle that's unobtanium and get another idea for yet another project; or I have an idea for the graphic/decor but no way of realising it as I envision it so I move on to another project. Add, rinse, repeat. I've got a lot of half-baked ideas sitting in containers, so I guess I'm just a spud-boy and I'm still looking for my real tomato...
 
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