After my brother gave me one of these ABS plastic cases for my birthday, I decided to use it to house a custom pedalboard:
After a fair bit of planning and plotting, a trip to the DIY store for some steel tube and some time in the garage with a hacksaw I came up with this:
I'm lucky because I work in a bicycle shop where we build our own frames (although I am not the actual framebuilder) so had access to welding and brazing equipment so after some playing with fire...
...I ended up with a nice frame for a pedalboard. With some nice 18mm phenolic plywood added for the pedal platforms I had this:
The brazing is not the absolute neatest but for a first go at it I am pretty chuffed. Could do with a little bit of a clean up and maybe some paint but it all works really nicely. The front row of pedals are dropped down inside the frame to keep the overall height as low as possible but there is a good size riser for the rear row of pedals. The best bit though is that it all packs away into the case really neatly with the Wah pedal and One Spot power supply neatly enclosed in the foam beneath the board:
It's all held in nice and tidily and without any rattling with the lid shut.
Signal path for info is:
TU-2
Homemade Fuzzface clone (the grey box)
Wah
CS-9
TS-9
Soul Food
BF-2
TR-2
The space in the top left is for an imminent delay pedal, most likely to be a Carbon Copy or a DM-2w.
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