Agileguy_101
Master of his Domain
After a shopping spree at Guitar Center where I went home three pedals richer (and only 30 dollars poorer), I decided that I needed a pedalboard. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures while I was cutting the wood, but I started once it was all assembled. There was still plenty of work to do after that.
I had a plank of 18"x48"x5/8" laying around the house, and we just so happen to have a table saw. We cut the main plank down to about 34 inches wide, which is plenty of room for all my pedals and enough extra for when I decide to expand. We then took the remaining wood, and some extra we had lying around, and fashioned two planks as sides, one as a support beam running down the middle, and one as a back for which to mount the power strip. Then we painted it. That's when I finally started taking pictures. The little blurbs are taken from facebook, where I posted all these already, so forgive me if some of the information is completely obvious to you guys.
I decided to go with metallic silver. Because it's awesome.
Here's a picture of the back. The piece running vertically down the middle is a stabilizer - the board is so long that I didn't want to step on a pedal right in the middle and break it. Although I don't think that's gonna happen - Alex stood on this thing and it didn't crack. A 5/8" thick board of pine was a good choice of wood.
You'll see why there's a back piece a little later.
At Alex's suggestion, I decided to put a black Rising Sun logo over the silver. I think it looks incredibly badass. Keep two things in mind - Alex did most all of the work, and when he painted this on there, he didn't even measure - he just eyeballed the tape and painted. He's really talented.
Why an Aperture logo?
Why the hell not?
Here's the board after the clear coat, with all the pedals placed on. We had to do a clear coat because the black paint was really easy to peel off (which was helpful when we took the tape off and found that the lines were a bit smudged). In this picture, they're just sitting there, nothing holding them on.
Here's a picture with all the pedals velcroed into their final places. I turned this sucker upside down and the pedals didn't budge a bit. Gotta love industrial strength velcro.
Here's a shot of the pedals on the top row. The reason I did rows was twofold - you can fit more pedals (duh) and so that I could have one row going to the FX loop on my amp and the other row hitting the front end.
Pedals from left to right:
Boss GE-7 EQ
Vintage (1979) MXR Phase 45 (discontinued)
MXR Phase 90
Electro-Harmonix Memory Boy
Some of you might ask why I have two phasers. Well, they are completely different sounding. The 90 offers very noticable phase, whereas the 45 is more lush and subtle. Both wonderful effects.
I had a plank of 18"x48"x5/8" laying around the house, and we just so happen to have a table saw. We cut the main plank down to about 34 inches wide, which is plenty of room for all my pedals and enough extra for when I decide to expand. We then took the remaining wood, and some extra we had lying around, and fashioned two planks as sides, one as a support beam running down the middle, and one as a back for which to mount the power strip. Then we painted it. That's when I finally started taking pictures. The little blurbs are taken from facebook, where I posted all these already, so forgive me if some of the information is completely obvious to you guys.
I decided to go with metallic silver. Because it's awesome.
Here's a picture of the back. The piece running vertically down the middle is a stabilizer - the board is so long that I didn't want to step on a pedal right in the middle and break it. Although I don't think that's gonna happen - Alex stood on this thing and it didn't crack. A 5/8" thick board of pine was a good choice of wood.
You'll see why there's a back piece a little later.
At Alex's suggestion, I decided to put a black Rising Sun logo over the silver. I think it looks incredibly badass. Keep two things in mind - Alex did most all of the work, and when he painted this on there, he didn't even measure - he just eyeballed the tape and painted. He's really talented.
Why an Aperture logo?
Why the hell not?
Here's the board after the clear coat, with all the pedals placed on. We had to do a clear coat because the black paint was really easy to peel off (which was helpful when we took the tape off and found that the lines were a bit smudged). In this picture, they're just sitting there, nothing holding them on.
Here's a picture with all the pedals velcroed into their final places. I turned this sucker upside down and the pedals didn't budge a bit. Gotta love industrial strength velcro.
Here's a shot of the pedals on the top row. The reason I did rows was twofold - you can fit more pedals (duh) and so that I could have one row going to the FX loop on my amp and the other row hitting the front end.
Pedals from left to right:
Boss GE-7 EQ
Vintage (1979) MXR Phase 45 (discontinued)
MXR Phase 90
Electro-Harmonix Memory Boy
Some of you might ask why I have two phasers. Well, they are completely different sounding. The 90 offers very noticable phase, whereas the 45 is more lush and subtle. Both wonderful effects.
