Third time’s the charm. I hope.

Failed again to finish decorating the fuzz pedal. This time I
made the mistake of attempting to “glaze” the paper with
the glu like stuff. This seemed to work okay with the first
one, but this time dried very unsmoothly. So I ripped
it off and started again.

Results so far for the third attempt look promising.

I think it took about three hours to assemble and
solder up the socket, an hour or two to troubleshoot
and drill the holes in the case and whatnot.

And so far, about six hours attempting to decorate
it. Which I guess is good for a change, since typically
the aesthetics of these sort of things are the last thing
on my mind.

If I had thought about it, I should of went ahead and ordered
the parts for the next project, since it seems like the kit
for the phaser is taking it’s time getting here, and I’d like
something to work on over the weekend.

Need to read
Designing from both sides of the screen anyway.

Note to Self: Do taxes soon.

Attempted to decorate the recently completed fuzz pedal. The tremolo pedal I
just printed out a pattern on plain paper and glued it to the case, and then
covered it with a couple coats of glue, and then a clear coat sealer. The
craft stores seem to label this basic concept as decoupage,
though this particular useage is a bit simpler.

However, trying to do this with stuff printed out on glossy color inkjet
paper didnt seem to work as well. Which, now that I have tried that
, I can see why. The paper isnt porous at all, so the sealant/glue
(aka, really think white glue…) doesn’t really work. I eventually
tried some photo mount I had, and that seemed to help. But
the end results aren’t as nice as I would have liked.

Are there any types of printer paper that is glossy on the print
side, but porous and rough on the back?

Finished soldering up another pedal tonight. A simple
non descript fuzz. Haven’t put it in a case yet, but
have a box I’m probably gonna use. Could of finished
it tonight, but I suspect my neighbors wouldn’t appreciate
me drilling holes in sheet metal at 1am.

Anyway, decided I should try creating some more large
textures, as a possible plan for decorating the new
case.

Some big adrian textures

I was wanting to try to do something more colorful
than the black&white pattern I used on the first one,
but I think my favorite turned out to be
greysawblades.jpg.
Though, eastermetalshards.jpg
is kind of nice as well.

Pharaoh Amplifiers

via dcm. Local boutique pedal builder. Looks
pretty cool.

Built a very simple square wave oscillator controled by a photocell. Aka, a phototheremin
or optotheremin.

I cased it into a “amp” that came with part of a toy guitar. The plans needed a small
speaker and AA batteries, which it already had, so that worked out well.

The light sensitive part is in the far top left of the front. Aka, where the input jack
would be if it were a real amp. It can use it’s internal speaker, or the 1/4 inch jack
mounted on the left. Sounds pretty insane though a fuzz/step phaser/delay.

Also fun to turn the lights out, and “play” it with a flashlight.

Aka, what I did instead of watching the war.

dcm is playing Kings
badger is playing Ringside

Both Saturday night.

Winston-Salem entertainment venue catches fire | The Winston Salem Journal – Journal Now

PS211 caught fire and caused about $120,000 damage.

Well, that fucking sucks.

I know several folks that live there, and
know lots of folks who store gear and what not there.

At least no one was hurt.

Theres a excavator working directly behind our building today.
More specifically, a Caterpillar 320C.
Right under our windows.

I am easily distracted.

Must go watch excavator move stuff some more.

So, speaking of fears and phobias

On the trip to DC, we repeatedly discussed the fear of maps. Not because
any of us are particular afraid of maps, but just because it would be
such a cool word: Cartographobia.

Cartographabia.

Cart tog gra pho bi a.

The Fear of Maps.

And in spirit of that, a map
heavy web collage