Unusual enclosures - looking for suggestions

[Blooze]

I picked these up over the weekend. My wife actually saw them at the thrift store and said “those would be awesome cleaned up a bit”.

So, I’m thinking some kind of fuzz or a tube based pedal.

What say you?

 

[RetiredUnit1]

Wow! How about some gut shots of the insides of those puppies, I'd love to see that "time capsule"!!!

 

[giovanni]

Very cool! Some kind of treble booster with a single knob and a switch would be cool in there...

 

[AgAuthority]

Jealous........nice find

Ag

 

[Harry Klippton]

If it were me, I wouldn't drill any new holes in em. Just use it as is

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

If it were me, I wouldn't drill any new holes in em. Just use it as is

Agreed. I'd do a pair of amp-top treble booster units. the Toggle for on-off, the one pot for the 'Boost Set' control, and the two jacks on the side for in and out. Do one as a Germanium Rangemaster and the other as a Silicon Hornby-Skewes Treble Boost

 

[Blooze]

Wow! How about some gut shots of the insides of those puppies, I'd love to see that "time capsule"!!!

Will do!

 

[Bio77]

^^This. Those might be tube preamps, already.

 

[Blooze]

Guts

 

[jhaneyzz]

Those are sooooo sweet... Definitely like the Fuzz or Treble Booster suggestions.

 

[jhaneyzz]

"Oooooo, these army surplus field phones would look so cool cleaned up and turned into a guitar pedal" --- Word that my wife would NEVER utter...

 

[Feral Feline]

I'd start looking at all the single-knob pedals with a switch AND just single-knob pedals, 'cause you can always throw in a mod on a switch.

The Station Wah, for example.

Could be a Bass Balls or Small Stone.


Then again, you could have a Muff with gain on a trimmer and EQ fixed with scooped/flat/bumped settings on the switch.

You could also turn that fuse-holder into a knob for a two-knobber and switch.

How 'bout a Green Ringer with Boost into Union Tube & Transistor Bumble Buzz ... ?



Really, there's so much you could do... Orange Squeezer, FV-1 one-knob reverb... Drill out the sides with some more holes for a junction box...


Maybe try for some circuit that is a tip of the hat to the enclosure's roots?

 

[owlexifry]

hell yeah these are fantastic!
wish i could find enclosures like those in the thrift shops around here.

all i ever really find is old tins, and then usually flip em upside down...


+1 vote for a rangemaster / treble booster - on a tagstrip

also agree with @Feral Feline 's suggestion of looking at 1 knob circuits...

 

[Feral Feline]

I've collected a lot of tins (cookie, candy etc), but not many are truly the right size and unless I use a soft-touch relay I'm sure I'll stomp 'em out of shape in no time.