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You can never have too many guitar pedals….
Most are from GPCB, but some are from other suppliers. This is what happens once you retire. (Keeps me out of the beer joint) Dang, didn’t realize I had two 60’s FUZZ builds.
Sweet! Gotta get them all. Nice job on the artwork too. I tell my wife my projects are the only thing keeping me from running for a political office, that guarantees her support.
Too many??
Nah. And BRD as far as telling your wife something I am fairly certain there are far worse things husbands could be doing in their spare time than being at home building pedals. I could create a Top Ten list right now.
Excellent post jd6string, thank you for sharing!
I have built 70 pedals over the years, most during my retirement. The majority are GPCB boards. I started with BYOC (RIP) kits and started modifying them. I have only a couple that I have kept stock.
I actually found out about Barry and GPCB on the BYOC forum. So of course I graduated from kits and modifying them to using various GPCB boards to build my own custom pedals or stock GPCB circuits. I also have built ModKits DIY pedals and most have GPCB boards in them, primarily 3PDT boards. In addition I have built a few pedals with Aion Fx and Pedal PCB boards.
I give credit to Barry and his various boards for stimulating my creative side and improving my electronic problem solving abilities. I have even learned to build some of my own circuits on veroboard, something I likely would have never done without taking the effort to build pedals with various GPCB boards. And I, too, have found doing the artwork for pedals extremely enjoyable.
Right now I’m too busy to get out all my pedals and doing a group picture. But you can find many by searching my handle Big O on this board and they appear in various threads. I may have to do this in the future and repost on this thread.
I have assembled 75+ boards from various manufacturers over the years.. I too started on the BYOC stuff, after some flailing about in the mid-late 90s in high school on electra distortion circuits to stuff into guitars.
LectricFX, PedalPCB, Aion, DeadEnd, Madbean.. love ’em all, but honestly, the GPCB SWAH and PUFF 100% resparked the urge to build pedals again, and here we are!! Pretty awesome to see the new cycle and evolution of the Nostalgitone series.
That’s a nice collection of builds, thanks for sharing. The two tone color schemes are interesting. I don’t think a person can have too many although my wife disagrees with me. But hey, building pedals is a fun hobby and keeps me out of trouble.
Okay. I managed to paste together collages of my pedals.
Guitar PCB
BYOC
ModKits DIY
Miscellaneous (Aion Fx, Pedal PCB, etc.)
My own designs on Veroboard
I *should* gather all my 2024-26 completions for a group photo.
Gonna look like @Big O , a smattering of various company offerings. Gotta love this hobby. I firmly believe in spreading the love to many different people, as building these devices has helped me keep my sanity the past 18 months AND was pivotal in helping me go nicotine free!So yeah, @Barry , i can 100% say that due to the Nostalgitone series, and the Bonus Boards last fall, I am officially 10 months without a cigarette as of tomorrow (25SEP-2026)
“So yeah, @Barry , i can 100% say that due to the Nostalgitone series, and the Bonus Boards last fall, I am officially 10 months without a cigarette as of tomorrow (25SEP-2026)”
That is a thing of freaking beauty! Congrats on that and after 10 months you have won!
Very nice collection and your artwork looks to great. You have more fuzz than granny’s closet. I think the Ornery Shrews is the best name. Do you have a favorite pedal?
Keep up the good work! Barry is doing his best to continue releasing new boards to keep you busy.
My turn now, I suppose:
Drilling enclosures this weekend, and placing semiconductor orders to Mouser and Cabintech tomorrow.
GPCB Cock It, ModBender MadBean Current Lover and Oracle. LectricFX Downtown and Countdown Phaser.
@Barry , I have not soldered in the CockIt trimpot yet, and am considering either mounting on the solder side and drilling a 6mm hole for a trim driver, or use of a 9mm right angle pot and mounting wherever.Great looking pedals Big O! I wish I was that good with art work. Just some rattle cans for me and using the pc for printing shipping labels (hey, it works). Great job on your pedals!
@jd6string i use a desktop P-touch printer for most of my labels. Amazon has a silly variety of TZ format tape. Use white/black text on clear tape, cut close to your lettering, and a small burnish tool to flatten it out.
if I had even a semblance of visual artistic gifts, I’d likely do some Inkscape work and gladly allow Tayda to UV print it!
8The key to doing the artwork for me is using MS paint and Paint.net and no other fancy graphics software. Once you know how to use these programs you can construct your graphics using a layering technique and pictures/graphics found on the internet. Also I used some of the Word Art features of MS Word. My first attempt at graphics is the first pedal I built, the Ge FF from BYOC which is in the upper right hand corner of the BYOC group of pedals. Most pedals the graphics were printed on waterslide paper using a laser printer or inkjet printer. A few were done using Barry’s technique of printing on photo paper and gluing it to the top of the pedal. Examples are the Clean Dirt pedal that has 5 or 6 GPCB boards and the Judas Priest drive pedal.
And by the way – Ornery Shrews is a Ge Hornby Skewes style treble booster.
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