Canvas Painting - Audrey Hepburn

Painted this one for my Mum -in -law Kath, who's always painting pictures for everyone else.

Canvas Painting - Kurt Cobain

Artwork I'm painting for the man cave on a 400 x 500 canvas

 

Canvas Painting - Robert Smith - The Cure

Artwork I'm painting for the man cave canvas is 400 x 500

 

New telecaster

 

Bought a Telecaster kit from Artist guitars

stained and painted stripes.

Replaced pickguard with aluminium deck plate matte black

Next job, build a case. Will upgrade electronics and tuners.

True - Bypass Looper Box - 5 in 1 - steampunk

 

 

WARLOCK- Steampunk

My inspiration for this pedal was the wood. In the right light it's dark with a red underbelly.

Couldn't help but think it's kinda evil. Witchy. Went from there.

With a theme like that. It's got to be Badass. I've always known about a boutique kiwi pedal builder called RedWitch and I knew they made a fuzz god, had a look and lo and behold the circuit

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Fuzz Main With A Wrath Footswitch,, Sounds goodie.

  

Gathered my bits and as before I used sketchup for some initial design work.

 

Also had to use Inkscape to create etch masks.

 

Ordered some parts for the circuit, found the transistors needed in a metal can version, so thought I'd mojo the circuit a bit as well and started building. While I'm building I'm thinking seeing as I've only used Rune symbols for the knobs, I could really put any circuits I like in it. 2 even. All the pots and switches are for the fuzz god circuit and with so many it also gives you plenty of options for a duo combination. At the time it was just a thought.

The metal cans were duds in the end. Spec'd way low. BC109's are now bc549 in a silicone package and common as you get, so put them on the shopping list.

I had a circuit made up and working for the Catalinbread "Dirty little secret MKII". uses 5 pots and 2 switches. Waiting for me to come up with a box design. Left with one knob. mmm. The ZVEX super hard-on seems to get a rave. I've wanted to make one. So I decided to put them in for now. In the end I changed the boost to a crackle not OK version. the crackle on the original seemed to come through all the time, not just when I dialed the pot. Badass, Evil, Black sabbath, Metallica running on 18v via  switchable charge pump) coupled with a hot little booster. It's WARLOCK DOOM by accident. The circuit has a presence trimmer which I decided I wanted to mount as an external pot and managed to squeeze one of the smaller packaged pots I pulled from the fried marshall in on the side, covered with a bit from a compressor valve,

 

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