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Originally Posted by telecaster911

Today, I made the circuit boards using a cnc milling machine, a 1/32" ball mill, and a blank circuit board.

This is a short video of the machine drilling the component holes in the first board.



Here is what it looks like cutting the tracks and pads. The tracks are made by milling around the perimeter of the circuit, isolating the circuit from the rest of the

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Originally Posted by telecaster911

I wired up the stomp switch and the dc power jack. Detail pics to follow. Got to spend some time with it tonight. It is seriously a nice pedal and I would have thought that I would never have liked a fuzz. When I first fired it up with the collector voltage running hot, the pedal was near worthless for rhythm (way too loose and fuzzy) good for soloing though, but the low strings were too loose sounding. Now with the voltage at 4.5, it's great everywhere. I haven't used it in front of an

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Originally Posted by telecaster911

Here is a pic with the caps on the board. They go in just like the resistors did, same soldering technique and all. Use caution with the electrolytic caps, they are polarized. The negative lead goes to the square pad.



I received the parts I needed from small bear electronics on Saturday/

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This installment is part 1 of the MKII pedal build. Check out the video for soldering components onto a printed circuit board. I have also started populating the board that I am using for my build with a few resistors and examples of what the solder joint should look like.

Tools needed:

Soldering Iron
Solder 60/40 (I will supply solder to you guys when I send out your boards and things)
Flux Pen (optional)
Tweezers to aid in component placement if ...