phil_104
Cheesesteakologist
Hey guys,
So after bugging a lot of you with questions over the last few months, about pedals, power supplies, wahs, and all that crazy stuff, I finally got to building myself a board for my finished collection. I have to thank Bass_Bear, who was my partner, and who helped me build and design through the entire process. I don't think I would have pulled it off to the same degree of quality without him. Props bro.
Anyways, here it is. Made from plywood, and a small piece of 2x2. It's basically a top board, with support braces on an angle underneath, and another board to close off the bottom. It is about three quarters of an inch high at the front, and about 2 and a half to three inches at the back, so the rise is very slight, making it a real joy to play, and wah playing real easy.
All the wires, be it interconnects or wires are done under the top plank (except for 1 wire we ran on the top, because it was way easier with our braces and with drilling). The idea was to keep it as clean as possible. The voodoo labs power supply is amazing, no complains about it. Came with enough wires to take care of everything.
The pedals are stuck to the board with super heavy duty industrial strengh velcro that me and Bass_Bear found at Home-Depo. It was probably the most expensive part of the build honestly.
As for the finish, we needed something that would look good, and be super resistant at the same time. The plywood was paint ready on one side, but we hit it with an electric rotary sander, with medium grade paper. Then I sprayed the whole pedal with an entire can of pickup-truck bed liner. Without primer, it took amazingly well. We tried it on a test piece, and after only 12 hours of drying, we could stab it as hard as we wanted with a screw driver, and it would not come off. Sure you would see the mark, but the paint doesn't chip or scrape off. It's super resistant.
Anyways, I really had fun building it, and it sounds great. I'm a big EHX fan, and I plan on acquiring some more so that I can interchange different pedals of the same size (ex: that holy grail will switch places with an delay super often). If you are wondering why there are big spaces above my rows of pedals, I have an answer for you! The side where the stickers are will have a piece of plexi glass put over it, in order to hold a set list for live situations. The other side I will occupy with spare velcro, so any additional specialty pedals I might want to add, but don't use on a regular basis. I can just run the signal out of the LPB-1, into it, and out again.
Overall I am very happy with it, had a great time building it with Jay, and if you have any questions or comments, I will answer as best I can.
So after bugging a lot of you with questions over the last few months, about pedals, power supplies, wahs, and all that crazy stuff, I finally got to building myself a board for my finished collection. I have to thank Bass_Bear, who was my partner, and who helped me build and design through the entire process. I don't think I would have pulled it off to the same degree of quality without him. Props bro.
Anyways, here it is. Made from plywood, and a small piece of 2x2. It's basically a top board, with support braces on an angle underneath, and another board to close off the bottom. It is about three quarters of an inch high at the front, and about 2 and a half to three inches at the back, so the rise is very slight, making it a real joy to play, and wah playing real easy.
All the wires, be it interconnects or wires are done under the top plank (except for 1 wire we ran on the top, because it was way easier with our braces and with drilling). The idea was to keep it as clean as possible. The voodoo labs power supply is amazing, no complains about it. Came with enough wires to take care of everything.
The pedals are stuck to the board with super heavy duty industrial strengh velcro that me and Bass_Bear found at Home-Depo. It was probably the most expensive part of the build honestly.
As for the finish, we needed something that would look good, and be super resistant at the same time. The plywood was paint ready on one side, but we hit it with an electric rotary sander, with medium grade paper. Then I sprayed the whole pedal with an entire can of pickup-truck bed liner. Without primer, it took amazingly well. We tried it on a test piece, and after only 12 hours of drying, we could stab it as hard as we wanted with a screw driver, and it would not come off. Sure you would see the mark, but the paint doesn't chip or scrape off. It's super resistant.
Anyways, I really had fun building it, and it sounds great. I'm a big EHX fan, and I plan on acquiring some more so that I can interchange different pedals of the same size (ex: that holy grail will switch places with an delay super often). If you are wondering why there are big spaces above my rows of pedals, I have an answer for you! The side where the stickers are will have a piece of plexi glass put over it, in order to hold a set list for live situations. The other side I will occupy with spare velcro, so any additional specialty pedals I might want to add, but don't use on a regular basis. I can just run the signal out of the LPB-1, into it, and out again.
Overall I am very happy with it, had a great time building it with Jay, and if you have any questions or comments, I will answer as best I can.
