Feral Feline
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+1I like your writing style.
Reminded me of Ralph Steadman
Post your abysmal enclosure finishing failures.
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Reminded me of Ralph Steadman
SillyOctpuss
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Have you ever tried envirotex? Nothing I've encountered has a gloss look that protects as well IMHO.
Juansolo and Cleggy from the Madbean forum have the definitive guide on their site.
http://80.229.1.38/stompage/finishing.html
peccary
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I have used ferric chloride a couple of times and didn't get the results I was looking for, but it was fun. Now that I have the no-film stuff down I am thinking how I can use the two together since the masking was where I was getting really inconsistent results and with the waterslides I know I can do a good mask.
Here's my one decent etch. I kinda like the grunge of it, but I have to admit that I like a clean design more. This has a clear coat on it, it's that Krylon triple thick glaze and I think that the clear coat came out pretty nice, actually, and added some dimension to it when looking at it in-person.
Untro
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Oh man oh man, I finally feel less alone, I was on an absolute losing streak with my enclosures for about a month straight. It all started when I got all my project parts from Tayda, but noticed the enclosures looked smaller than usual... I had ordered 5 or so 125b style enclosures, which are just a few square millimeters smaller!
From left to right, I tried pushing a DOD into 1590A (nope), I tried fitting an TS808 into the 125b but went full space cadet and forgot how potentiometers mount apparently, then tried again and realized I couldnt get the input/power jacks to fit in any kind of place inside. THEN I tried pushing the Haunting Mids into a 125b, gave up, put it in a regular enclosure, and apparently I manhandled the dual gang pot because it's now intermittent and touchy and needs a new one.
Like fig said, sometimes some recreational activities can get in the way of other, more 'detail oriented' recreational activities
From left to right, I tried pushing a DOD into 1590A (nope), I tried fitting an TS808 into the 125b but went full space cadet and forgot how potentiometers mount apparently, then tried again and realized I couldnt get the input/power jacks to fit in any kind of place inside. THEN I tried pushing the Haunting Mids into a 125b, gave up, put it in a regular enclosure, and apparently I manhandled the dual gang pot because it's now intermittent and touchy and needs a new one.
Like fig said, sometimes some recreational activities can get in the way of other, more 'detail oriented' recreational activities
Bricksnbeatles
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Those three in the middle look like they’re 1590B rather than 125BOh man oh man, I finally feel less alone, I was on an absolute losing streak with my enclosures for about a month straight. It all started when I got all my project parts from Tayda, but noticed the enclosures looked smaller than usual... I had ordered 5 or so 125b style enclosures, which are just a few square millimeters smaller!
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From left to right, I tried pushing a DOD into 1590A (nope), I tried fitting an TS808 into the 125b but went full space cadet and forgot how potentiometers mount apparently, then tried again and realized I couldnt get the input/power jacks to fit in any kind of place inside. THEN I tried pushing the Haunting Mids into a 125b, gave up, put it in a regular enclosure, and apparently I manhandled the dual gang pot because it's now intermittent and touchy and needs a new one.
Like fig said, sometimes some recreational activities can get in the way of other, more 'detail oriented' recreational activities
Paradox916
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this poor box has been the victim to multiple experiments..... and continues to be a viable donor
Stickman393
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Y'all make this stickman's heart swell. Such beauty.
I mean, part of the purpose here is obviously to put out a bit of "hey guys, it's OK" to our failures. Nobody starts out with these things with a 100% success track record. You WILL fail. But, if you keep going, experiment, research: you'll get better. Slowly but surely.
This next one is a spirit box that I'm in the process of boxing up. This time around, I used press n peel blue instead of toner transfer paper. Keep in mind, this was al done with a simple 15 watt godlyke pedal power adapter. I've got a good 30 watt 24v power supply from work that I'm gonna build into a storable, safe box for electrolysis etching.
I lost a couple of blotches, didn't level the surface perfectly, but damn those lines came out clean!
Big thanks to @dmnCrawler for his website with several of the art assets, by the way.
I mean, part of the purpose here is obviously to put out a bit of "hey guys, it's OK" to our failures. Nobody starts out with these things with a 100% success track record. You WILL fail. But, if you keep going, experiment, research: you'll get better. Slowly but surely.
This next one is a spirit box that I'm in the process of boxing up. This time around, I used press n peel blue instead of toner transfer paper. Keep in mind, this was al done with a simple 15 watt godlyke pedal power adapter. I've got a good 30 watt 24v power supply from work that I'm gonna build into a storable, safe box for electrolysis etching.
I lost a couple of blotches, didn't level the surface perfectly, but damn those lines came out clean!
Big thanks to @dmnCrawler for his website with several of the art assets, by the way.
Untro
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Probably why i cant keep it straight, im not cut out for this gig
PapaBear
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Sometimes you just got to look at things from the other side!
Mentaltossflycoon
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Bought a green sovtek in 1996, switch broke after heavy heavy use in 2006 so I rehoused it adding a dc jack/ true bypass (my first pedal and my first pedal project) . On the left is an enclosure that has gone through some things... Most recently had a modded meatbox with a mammoth clone and byoc lil black key with 2 switchable outputs so I still have fuzz on my sub when I use 2 amps. Lots of unnecessary holes.
DAJE
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AION Prism FET Amplifier (Boss FA-1 FET Amplifier)
The enclosure is from Tayda, in Army Green, bought on a whim. Since it's green, I decided to use it for this project, as the Boss original is kind of a light greeny-lime.
Once built, I felt like I needed to label the controls, so I grabbed a handy gold paint pen and didn't stop to consider that I'm crap with pen/pencil/paint.
Let's be honest; it is ugly. It looks like complete garbage.
In my defense, it worked perfectly the first time I hooked it up, it continues to work perfectly, and it delivers a massive level of clean headroom.
But yeah. Ugly.
The enclosure is from Tayda, in Army Green, bought on a whim. Since it's green, I decided to use it for this project, as the Boss original is kind of a light greeny-lime.
Once built, I felt like I needed to label the controls, so I grabbed a handy gold paint pen and didn't stop to consider that I'm crap with pen/pencil/paint.
Let's be honest; it is ugly. It looks like complete garbage.
In my defense, it worked perfectly the first time I hooked it up, it continues to work perfectly, and it delivers a massive level of clean headroom.
But yeah. Ugly.
JetFixxxer
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To be honest all these "abysmal" are what makes them unique and wouldn't hesitate to put this on my board.
Mcknib
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Now you see it....
Now you don't
How not to use the provided drill template don't think I've ever used so much metal epoxy It'd probably have been cheaper to buy a new 1 than use 2.5kg of epoxy and an aluminium sheet but I just can't throw them away
And
Fortunately back in the day phone cameras weren't that great
Now you don't
How not to use the provided drill template don't think I've ever used so much metal epoxy It'd probably have been cheaper to buy a new 1 than use 2.5kg of epoxy and an aluminium sheet but I just can't throw them away
And
Fortunately back in the day phone cameras weren't that great
SillyOctpuss
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Chavtastic
boji
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Not abysmal but far from great. I present to you my first try at waterslide decal and my first home drilled enclosure.
I really like Mucha's art, but the colors came out wrong and way too red.
Then they started blending into each other because I put too much clear coat on the decal.
Then I positioned the decal wrong and touched the side while it was still fragile to remove a speck of dust.
But I decided to sand the whole decal to give it a more industrial feel. In the end it came out OK.
On to the drilling. I first drilled the spot for the LED where I thought it would be more visually pleasing, on the bottom right corner. I never even thought that that would put the LED exactly above the jack, and make it absolutely impossible to insert there.
So I drilled a new hole on the top left corner. And was left with a hole at the bottom.
For a while the pedal stayed like that. And one day, I thought it would be cool to fill the hole with some copper tape.
It's deeply flawed but I really like my little Mucha Squeezer Compressor.
I really like Mucha's art, but the colors came out wrong and way too red.
Then they started blending into each other because I put too much clear coat on the decal.
Then I positioned the decal wrong and touched the side while it was still fragile to remove a speck of dust.
But I decided to sand the whole decal to give it a more industrial feel. In the end it came out OK.
On to the drilling. I first drilled the spot for the LED where I thought it would be more visually pleasing, on the bottom right corner. I never even thought that that would put the LED exactly above the jack, and make it absolutely impossible to insert there.
So I drilled a new hole on the top left corner. And was left with a hole at the bottom.
For a while the pedal stayed like that. And one day, I thought it would be cool to fill the hole with some copper tape.
It's deeply flawed but I really like my little Mucha Squeezer Compressor.
