The Most Daunting Part of a Vero Build for Me...

peccary

peccary

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The layout...

I decided to get back in to using some vero board - I am trying my hand at a Noisy Cricket as a little practice guitar amp. I'm building it with the added headphone out but I think I am going to see if I can't find a little speaker and cobble together a little cab for it as well down the line. I think I'm going to have to do some surgery on the pots to get them to fit.

Shout out to @Barry who was kind enough to send me an LM386. And thanks for including those 220u caps as well, Barry. I though I had some but did not!

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blackhatboojum said:
Nice! I was curious since those jfets are hard to come by. I ended up using a 2n5458 in my ruby. It works so I’m calling it good😜.
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I have a few different JFETs kicking around that I might try out but I'll have to go through the data sheets first as I'm not sure which will work (though I do have 2n5458's around, maybe I'll try to compare).

I still need to get the proper switches and am missing a pot value, but that's an easy fix. I'm hoping I can get the enclosure drilled next weekend, that's the part I'm most anxious about.
 
That looks pretty good to me! Why are you putting the pots on the side?

It must be the masochist in me but I really like the layout part - even drawing up my own vero layouts. It's rare that a Tagboards layout can't be improved for my taste.

And I found that buying a drillpress helped out hugely with drill enclosures. A decent drillpress is not really any more expensive than a new cordless drill outfit these days. I like to clamp a fence (just a short offcut of wood) to the base of the press so that I can get all of the pot and jack holes to line up. It has made drilling enclosures accurately so much easier.
 
HamishR said:
That looks pretty good to me! Why are you putting the pots on the side?

It must be the masochist in me but I really like the layout part - even drawing up my own vero layouts. It's rare that a Tagboards layout can't be improved for my taste.

And I found that buying a drillpress helped out hugely with drill enclosures. A decent drillpress is not really any more expensive than a new cordless drill outfit these days. I like to clamp a fence (just a short offcut of wood) to the base of the press so that I can get all of the pot and jack holes to line up. It has made drilling enclosures accurately so much easier.
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Honestly I'm just putting them on the side because that's the layout that Beavis did. I like it because it looks a bit more traditional for an amp. I think it may be a bit tougher to layout that way (less room for error) but I figured I might as well give it a go.

I bought myself a little Grizzly press a while back and I love it. I think it was like $90 direct from them and it rules.
 
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