Fender_Greg Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 So, I wasn't too keen on the prices of a pedalboard out there and decided to go my own way about it. Of course I looked around and found some examples of D.I.Y jobs and it lead me on this journey. I apologize for the size of pics, I took them straight off my phone. 1. I ordered some "Gorm shelves" from Ikea, only £7 plus P&P. Wehn they came they looked like this: 2. Started getting the pedal bug and went off buying too much from here on BC! Once I Bought a few I gave them a quick go on the whole shelf to get a feeler: 3. After that I cut it down and painted it. I was far too impatient to find some sort of case to get a proper size of board but I'll worry about that another day! 4. I bought some velcro off of eBay, only a meter and only 25mm so I had to order more but this time 50mm and the board looked like this! I was pretty damn chuffed really, it looks awesome! I may get some rubber feet for the bottom of it but otherwise I don't think I need to do too much else Anyway this is the final set up, well maybe. I'm unsure of the order to put it all in at the moment and the Q-tron is getting replaced with the Enigma Q Balls! I got the input now into the tuner and then the Q-tron going into the compressor then that into the MXR, Behringer then out. All in all the board cost about £15! and the Gorm shelves come in packs of two, so I can either make a bigger board (bad idea!) or a mini one for 3, maybe 4 pedals to be daisy chained on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Nice pëüddål board! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.i.stein Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 good work ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nottswarwick Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Excellent. Defo get some feet to stop it sliding around - from experience when I did something similar. Yours is better than mine was though. You now need to build a box to transport it in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commando Jack Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Didn't happen to find this on TDPRI by any chance? Still, excellent board, well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fender_Greg Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 (edited) [quote name='Commando Jack' timestamp='1357333680' post='1921375'] Didn't happen to find this on TDPRI by any chance? Still, excellent board, well done [/quote] Yeah I saw that, Couldn't get the extra wood to raise the board though but it is big enough without it! That and the cheap SoundLab PSU is HUGE! Definitely a great way to do a board Edited January 4, 2013 by Fender_Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monckyman Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 It`s a Pedal Gord! Nice work, may try one meself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 i just did exactly the same thing a couple of days ago! built myself a lovely double tiered board from the ikea gorm shelves and sprayed it black! worked great so im going to build another one this weekend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fender_Greg Posted January 7, 2013 Author Share Posted January 7, 2013 [quote name='Ant' timestamp='1357551136' post='1924183'] i just did exactly the same thing a couple of days ago! built myself a lovely double tiered board from the ikea gorm shelves and sprayed it black! worked great so im going to build another one this weekend [/quote] Excellent stuff! they're just so easy and damn quality! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethFlatlands Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 There's a Lovetone (Swedish) Meatball joke in here somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroopy121 Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 How's that power supply? Any issues with noise or anything? xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fender_Greg Posted January 9, 2013 Author Share Posted January 9, 2013 [quote name='Stroopy121' timestamp='1357651597' post='1925980'] How's that power supply? Any issues with noise or anything? xx [/quote] No nothing as of yet. It's been great to start with but I'm more then sure I'll have to get something with a bit more output later. I got my enigma q balls in the loop now and if I turn on the power supply with that plugged in it goes a bit weird. But if I turn on on then plug in the enigma theres no problems which is strange, although I'm surprised this is working cuz the enigma needs 200ma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoham Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 [quote name='Stroopy121' timestamp='1357651597' post='1925980'] How's that power supply? Any issues with noise or anything? xx [/quote] I have one of those power supplies - and it's simply terrible! Very noisy on any more than one pedal, and it just stopped working mid-rehearsal. There's a little 500mA fuse inside that decided to go pop. Even though it was only powering two pedals at the time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Heeley Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 shoulda built it bigga...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fender_Greg Posted February 18, 2013 Author Share Posted February 18, 2013 [quote name='geoham' timestamp='1360866138' post='1977675'] I have one of those power supplies - and it's simply terrible! Very noisy on any more than one pedal, and it just stopped working mid-rehearsal. There's a little 500mA fuse inside that decided to go pop. Even though it was only powering two pedals at the time! [/quote] I got 6 pedals on it at the moment and although they aren't all on at once I havent got any bad noise. I'm fully expecting to kill it though cuz I'm well aware how cheap its built Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fender_Greg Posted February 18, 2013 Author Share Posted February 18, 2013 [quote name='Al Heeley' timestamp='1360884848' post='1978050'] shoulda built it bigga...... [/quote] I'm feeling that now that I've filled the last gap with a SansAmp haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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