Marigold Fuzz

[Crash102]

I’ve had this board mostly finished for a while and finally decided to do all the offboard wiring (my least favorite part of pedal building)

Im glad I finally finished it. This fuzz is probably not going to leave my board. So many times, I’ll build pedals and they end up sitting around for a while before I get around to adding them to my board, but I finished, went to test it, and the ended up playing late into the night.

 

[MichaelW]

What did you use for Q3?

 

[Crash102]

What did you use for Q3?

I ordered a bunch of random Germanium transistors a while back. I really just started trying them all out til I found one I liked best. Had to go back and check. I used a a MN/MP35

 

[Crash102]

I definitely messed up the Jack drilling, and since it was the last thing I was doing, and didn’t want to trash the enclosure, I just went with it. Works. And sounds good. But I shouldn’t have tried to eyeball it and should have taped the grill guide in before doing my center punch for the drilling.

 

[Bret608]

I seriously need to populate the board I have for this! You've inspired me to get off my rear and make it happen before too much more time goes by. I know what you mean about drilling--center punching things just a bit off has been the bane of my existence. I'm finally getting a bit better with it though.

 

[MichaelW]

It's actually mind boggling to me how far off a "little bit off" with my center punch can wind up. Especially for the 1590B's where there's not a lot of margin for error. I find I'm actually more accurate drilling by hand over my drill press.

 

[Harry Klippton]

I definitely messed up the Jack drilling, and since it was the last thing I was doing, and didn’t want to trash the enclosure, I just went with it. Works. And sounds good. But I shouldn’t have tried to eyeball it and should have taped the grill guide in before doing my center punch for the drilling.

You can fill the holes with JB weld, sand it, respray a bit, and redrill. I did one and it came out great