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Thankfully the fuzz I built was fairly smooth except my own silly mistakes, it was the wiring that I found the hardest.
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You won't get a great deal of choice with a budget of less than £30-40, but some of the bigger kits featured on this thread can be comfortably over £100, not counting the cost of paints or fancy knobs, which can be quite pricey by themselves.
For that sort of cash you're talking about things that require either a *lot* of components, or very high quality and/or difficult to find parts, and/or vintage "new old stock" parts that need to be tested for suitability by someone who knows what they're doing.
But there's a huge range of complexity inside different pedals.
For instance, here's the BYOC Stereo Flanger:
On the other hand, here's someone's stripboard build of an Emerson EM Drive:
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Those are about the most expensive I've seen other than the Ceriatone Centura, where you're paying for the fancy case more than anything.
If you're starting out it's a good idea to try something fairly simple - anything with just 1 knob is usually a good bet. Bigger kits aren't any harder to build - either way you have a bunch of parts to sort and install correctly then a load of soldering to do. But can be harder to diagnose if they don't work simply because more parts means increased odds of doing something wrong and more things to check if it aint' working!
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Except if it's a phaser
BYOC make a few that are £100+, but they're all fairly complex builds- flanger, analogue vibrato, programmable 8-way looper(!).
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I built the circuit Fuzzdog sells as the Throb tremolo on stripboard. Definitely a step up from the SHO in terms of the number of parts but still not too complicated, and you end up with a nice amp style tremolo with two switchable speed ranges. (don't worry too much about the parts count- just takes a bit longer to build, and requires a bit more organization when you first sort your parts).
https://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/Throb_Tremolo/p847124_9404696.aspx
Won't do anything all that crazy though. For that there's the Vox Repeat Percussion, which is also reasonably simple.
https://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/Repeater_-_Vox_Repeat_Percussion/p847124_9673280.aspx
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Still couldn't believe how well no. 2 worked, and now my imagination has got the better of me.
I want to squeeze a rangemaster type circuit, into the front of the noisy cricket, so you get a fully featured master volume amp in a 9v pedal, that just goes into a speaker cab.
Further research showed me I wasn't the first with this idea, check out MYLK AMP on t'web.
I managed to get a good deep soldering iron burn on my second build, which has only just healed--so proceed with caution.
I recommend the Noisy cricket as a first kit, but a bit like crack, once you try it you can't go back.
Fuzz Dog supplied, can't fault it except maybe put the 'things to check' at the beginning rather than the end. Serves me right for not reading it through first - I put the green LED in the wrong way around.
Paint job is my design with Posca Pens.
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they have a product called ‘Tear free’ which in effect is plastic paper. They use it to laser print safety tags for oil rigs. Once printed it’s waterproof and requires no lacquer. It has a sheen to it and can be glued using pva. They can do a full range of colours apart from a clear label so I am tempted to give that a go.
last nights jobs were:
Sort components - done and labelled with masking tape
Mocked up a label for the top- secretly quite please with my Rat a like design but it’s an AT - and I ran off a template but realised I can’t test fit as the predrilled enclosure is being powder coated! Lesson 1 learned.
I saw Stewmac suggesting car vinyl wrap as an option for making pedals pretty. Could be a good option
car vinyl sounds like a good option too. Both will be good options I suspect for the ‘fully covered’ design options. Less so for nice subtle design like @roberty above as you will always be trying to match the colour of the print to the colour of the paint and it will never quite match
Oh bugger, what have I started...
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50047716466_9822bb4a5f_k.jpg
They are a bit smaller than I thought....
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50047716696_3c5587c44b_k.jpg
Progress is ok, which is better than the utter feckin mess I made of the test circuit
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50047976077_51b9a8a12c_k.jpg
4 resistors in. Quit while I'm ahead with a shot of the face template in the background. Time for a gin