Sweet Honey Deluxe - Steampunk

 

 

Since I put my first Sweet Honey clone on my board I find myself using it as the go-to if I'm not fixed to a certain pedal for a certain song.

We play a mix of covers and original numbers. They range quite a bit from each members taste, so we mix it up so we're all happy. One guys from an Irish band background, the Bass-man likes the heavy stuff, and I've always been most interested in alternative rock heading into punk sort of vibe. Along with many, many other styles.

I find this pedal capable of sounding good in a lot of our songs. Really good in the blues- rock area. Basically it's on the permanent list.

I didn't like my last Tayda printed art job and decided to upgrade the box.

I find surfing the web, looking for ideas, styles I find interesting, is the best way for me to try and come up with something I like. I find and save lots of pictures, patterns, stuff I think may be useful. If I see a style I like, it's like , yeah that's kind of what I was looking for and I start forming ideas based on what I've seen. So - originality? maybe not entirely, but I don't want to outright copy anyone by any means. My problem is I'm terribly much more a logical type than the artist.

In all honesty this pedal is very much a mix of both with some originality I will claim.

My searching eventually led me to some SteamPunk looks. I'm the first to admit I was most inspired for this look by SVISOUND. If you haven't seen, take a look svisound. For me, it was like, yep this is where I've been going.. next level, and sort of what I'd like to incorporate in some of my builds. 

steampunk honey factory came to mind. The industrial honeycomb feature ventured into my thoughts as a possible feature. I decided if I'm going to try this I'll draw it in Sketchup first, to get a decent look at it before I commit to anything and make sure everything I'd found to possibly use for this look .was going to place well and help me plan the processes to make it.

 

I've been using Sketchup a long time now to help with projects I work on. The logical needs to know what it will look like. what do i need, can i do it?

I found some old blocks of hardwood and sliced them up on a table saw and have a selection of a few flavors now. This is an old piece of Rimu with a rather thick coating of a glossy clear coat to look like it's covered in Honey.

Scrounged the draws for anything brass or useful, bought a few things, brass plate, wire, jewellry trinkets, colored glass. I did manage to use a fair bit of recycled bits.Like the knobs are reused plumbing fittings. Epoxy resin is very useful.

LOT OF TIME to make this one from draw to finish. It's a hobby, I do it cause It's what I enjoy doing, for me the time is irrelevant. More importantly - MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

The Sweet Honey Overdrive - Deluxe