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[elavd]

Would like to find the hardware elvad used on his corners..nice job there!

Thanks Justaguyin_nc

I bought these metallic corners from a hardware store (wich sells screws, nails, etc) and use them on my pedalboard:





Of course, now my pedalboard is EMPTY, since I got a TONELAB SE and sold ALL of my pedals!!!

[Tone2TheBone]

Voo - your wish is my command!


Justa - I did the same thing that you mentioned. I used a piece of 1x2 on the top to raise it some from the floor. This board is 1x12 pine and is 36 inches long. I'm not taking it anywhere either so I didn't care about portability. I like having my pedals in line with each other instead of staggered. I get way better signal from the short patch cables. I also took off the little power strip from the old board and attached it to the top of this one so that I'd have even more connections. I run most of the pedals off the TU-2 and I use the old strip for my 1/8" mini connectors (the MXR Micro Amp). I could still put more pedals on there if I wanted to but I still don't want to stagger.

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I run a 1 foot patch cable from the looper to the FS-5U switch but it's not there in the photo. Again I attached the pedals to the board with a simple eye hooks and cloth covered rubber band system. Easier for me to disconnect the pedals and they stay on the board without coming off as they did with velcro. I thought about covering the board with some of that material that you talked about Justa but I remember that my other board with the fuzzy velcro material used to get wicked dusty and would stick to the fuzz real bad...that's why I just spray painted it black. Easy to dust off.

[duhvoodooman***]

Voo - your wish is my command!


Justa - I did the same thing that you mentioned. I used a piece of 1x2 on the top to raise it some from the floor. This board is 1x12 pine and is 36 inches long. I'm not taking it anywhere either so I didn't care about portability. I like having my pedals in line with each other instead of staggered. I get way better signal from the short patch cables. I also took off the little power strip from the old board and attached it to the top of this one so that I'd have even more connections. I run most of the pedals off the TU-2 and I use the old strip for my 1/8" mini connectors (the MXR Micro Amp). I could still put more pedals on there if I wanted to but I still don't want to stagger.


I run a 1 foot patch cable from the looper to the FS-5U switch but it's not there in the photo. Again I attached the pedals to the board with a simple eye hooks and cloth covered rubber band system. Easier for me to disconnect the pedals and they stay on the board without coming off as they did with velcro. I thought about covering the board with some of that material that you talked about Justa but I remember that my other board with the fuzzy velcro material used to get wicked dusty and would stick to the fuzz real bad...that's why I just spray painted it black. Easy to dust off.

Cool! Geez, I gotta make me one of those! I just have everything sitting on the floor in front of my amps. I don't move things around that often, but it's still sloppy looking and a pain everytime I want to juggle positions or put a new pedal in the chain.

BTW, where'd you get that cool yellow one in the middle?? Everybody oughta have one of those!!

[Tone2TheBone]

Cool! Geez, I gotta make me one of those! I just have everything sitting on the floor in front of my amps. I don't move things around that often, but it's still sloppy looking and a pain everytime I want to juggle positions or put a new pedal in the chain.

BTW, where'd you get that cool yellow one in the middle?? Everybody oughta have one of those!!

I think I paid 5 or 6 bucks for the 1x12...3 bucks for the spray paint. I already had pieces of 1x2s laying all over the backyard. I figured out my pedal layout and cut down to 36 inches. Perfect and cheap and it looks good PLUS it will keep your pedals nice and neat. Mine were all over the place too...even when I had the other board. I can still swap out pedals though but at least the current line up will be all on one board. Make one man!

That wicked chicken yellow pedal with the classy blue LED was made by this crazed mad scientist dude. Asked me what I wanted in a pedal and well, he delivered! I figured I better jump on that magical boutique box before the prices went up!

[Justaguyin_nc]

Justa - I did the same thing that you mentioned. I used a piece of 1x2 on the top to raise it some from the floor. This board is 1x12 pine and is 36 inches long.

Good to see.. looks like 36 inches is the right size!

looks like it is also possible to double the pedals in each row.

I was thinking maybe adding a hole every 5 inches to run the powercables thru..

Your right about the material collecting fuzz... but seeing I have it laying around.. Going to try spray gluing to see how well I do..

Now, has anyone seen anything like these: http://cgi.ebay.com/Make-your-own-Pe...QQcmdZViewItem
at a lowes or homedepot?

Im thinking just using screws will wiggle loose sooner or later.. maybe something with tiny nuts and bolts would be better..

[M29]

Hello Justaguyin_nc,

Those little brackets look just like one side of a master link for a drive chain. A bicycle shop or supplier may have tons of them cheap. Just a thought.

M29

[Justaguyin_nc]

Well, I got started on it at least.. already to small..lol

Used all screws ... figured nails would eventually fall out.

Have room on the right for a volume and wah-wah pedal.

Did the same as you did tone and stripped the power off the old board and screwed it to the upper level..

Still have to find corners and glue on the material..

Looks like I need a bunch of longer pedal patch chords also..

[Tone2TheBone]

Well, I got started on it at least.. already to small..lol

Used all screws ... figured nails would eventually fall out.

Have room on the right for a volume and wah-wah pedal.

Did the same as you did tone and stripped the power off the old board and screwed it to the upper level..

Still have to find corners and glue on the material..

Looks like I need a bunch of longer pedal patch chords also..

Better stash that Electric Mistress...it's on the minds of a few people I know here.

Ah I see you made yours in tiers. Cool. Do you think you'd be using all your pedals at once or will you swap out occasionally?

The biggest reason I used flexible rubber bands to hold my pedals was that I could place them very close to each other and still be able to pull them off the board with my hands while I connected or disconnected them. If you'll notice my plug ends are literally on top of each other or side by side with about an 1/8th to 1/4 inch gap between them. I used to have them farther apart when they were secured to the old board with screws from the bottom because you can't connect/disconnect them if they're too close etc. Someone here gave me the idea about the bands and I wanted my pedals closer together so I could fit more on a fixed sized board. What are the dimensions of the board?

[duhvoodooman***]

Better stash that Electric Mistress...it's on the minds of a few people I know here.

Where'd ya think I got the idea from, Tone?!?

Speaking of which....geez, that Mistress is a BIG GIRL, ain't she? Didn't realize they were quite that large. Just seeing isolated photos can be deceiving--Justa's "group shot" gives it perspective!

[Tone2TheBone]

Where'd ya think I got the idea from, Tone?!?

Speaking of which....geez, that Mistress is a BIG GIRL, ain't she? Didn't realize they were quite that large. Just seeing isolated photos can be deceiving--Justa's "group shot" gives it perspective!

heh I foresee in the near future a unit of similar design but smaller dimensions being created out of the lah-bora-tory of a certain mad scientist in uppah NY somewhere......*lightning flashes and thunder claps on cue*

EH units are pretty large yeah. 2 will take up an entire pedal board!

[Justaguyin_nc]

Better stash that Electric Mistress...it's on the minds of a few people I know here.

Ah I see you made yours in tiers. Cool. Do you think you'd be using all your pedals at once or will you swap out occasionally?

Yeah the Mistress is quite large.. and safe.. Man, I just can't turn it off anymore.. I really like all the different sounds.. from almost transparent to over the top..combined with a delay/echo it just makes my sound feel much fuller and rich..well..to me anyways..
She slides up into that opening behind it..just don't have long enough patch chord to do it yet.. The other hole holds a preamp for a mic..
Size: 36x12 bottom and 20x6 top...

I doubt very much I will use all the pedals.. in fact some are being sold.. ofcourse a few more are comming..

I think I am going to end up with 7 pedals and a tuner.. speaking of which.. there is nothing wrong with putting a tuner as your last pedal is there? Been seeing some that do this.. I as a rookie always thought it had to go first..

[Tone2TheBone]

My TU-2 pedal is 2nd in line after the Cry Baby only cause I am superstitious and have to have the wah first. I daisy chain off the TU-2 power output right to left but I guess you could run a tuner at the end...even if it was powered or not. When the TU-2 is switched nothing comes out to the amp and I'm assuming every tuner pedal works this way. I suppose it doesn't matter where it's at in relation to the other pedals?

Only someone with your expertise M29 would have thought about the rust from the chain links. +1

[M29]

Thanks tone,

This thread is excellent I am going to start building a board soon and this will help a great deal. What a great website this is.

Thanks all.

M29

[Bobbo]

Thanks tone,

This thread is excellent I am going to start building a board soon and this will help a great deal. What a great website this is.

Thanks all.

M29

Glad you dig it .. I love seeing what everyone is using and how they set it up too !!!

[Justaguyin_nc]

Well , I took half the night getting the material stuck on the board.. used 3m 77 spray.. put the material on everything! think I got high from the smell.. napped.. then finished..
I like how it turned out.

Lowes and HomeDepot haven't a clue when it comes to those corners Elvad has on his, I am going to try a few regular hardware stores today, then the internet! Those surely make a board look good!!

Neither had a clue to any type washer dogbone style like those sold on ebay, and if you got a bike master link, well thats a few bucks a piece. After looking around, that guy on ebay don't sound to bad at $20.00 for a bunch of'em... again, will check regular hardware stores for these too.

When you look on ebay and online stores, the prices for boards seems so expensive for what you get, but by time you start putting things together and your time spent doing it.. they probably all are worth it.

[duhvoodooman***]

Nice lookin' board there, Justa, but it could use some YELLOW!

[Justaguyin_nc]

Nice lookin' board there, Justa, but it could use some YELLOW!

lol, I tried once...but missed the intro price..

But there probably will be some yellow there before its over..

sooooo many pedals...so little funds...lol

[Tone2TheBone]

Wow Justa that looks sharp. Did good buddy.

[Justaguyin_nc]

ok, this sounds silly and is probably known by all you pros out there.
But for this beginner... it surely helps...

leaning your pedal board.. well, I added a piece to the back of my board to help it tilt my way a bit.. worked great but would be nice if it leaned even more towards me.

I was looking thru some pictures of different pro players setups, there right in front of me on a few live performances, it finally caught my eye...

These guys use flat boards so they can attach their case tops to them and be on their way.. so how do they lean them ?

They do it off their MIC Stand... duh!!!!

Placing two of the three legs towards the pedalboard, they just slide the back of the board over it.. tilting/leaning the board and securing the stand at the same time... I know..simple..stupid.. and overlooked by me.. maybe others

Ok, go ahead and say I already knew that... then tell us newbies..why you didn't let us know...

This works great and gives a perfect tilt to the board..

Oh the pedals on the floor...except the looper
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