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  • This topic has 8 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 8 years, 2 months ago by Vojtech.
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    • December 9, 2017 at 1:20 pm #87173
      Kamen B
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        Hello friends,

        This month I was a bit “overlistening” John Mayer’s last single “still feels your man” and thus drifted to Marvin Gaye… and I felt I need something that will make my guitar sound a bit pre-disko… So I decided to treat myself for Christmas and bought a wah-wah pedal… It came this week and with this came the inconvenience that there are just too much cables around… My pedal collection consists of a delay, an overdrive, a looper and the new wah-wah… This brought the necessity of a pedalboard, which on the other hand opens the door to a power station, patch cables, etc… expenses which I am not sure I want to make at this moment…

        So I have checked some pictures of DIY pedalboards and came to the idea of building my own IKEA hack project. See pictures below.

        One need the following:
        – IKEA shelf: HEJNE about 8€;
        – power unit – 3€;
        – velcro stripes – 4€;
        – two planks and some screws ~2€;
        – several 9V DC adapters. About 5€ pro piece… You need just to change the polarity of the output wires so that it fits the guitar effect: the + is the outside wiring. I may put another topic about this… this hack saves a lot from adapters and by the way the quality is pretty good – no hum at all…

        So the sum is about 35€ everything… I know it’s not a crazy deal, but building it brings a lot of fun!!

        Have fun and take care,
        Kamen

      • December 9, 2017 at 1:30 pm #87178
        Kamen B
        Participant

          The other photos…

        • December 9, 2017 at 1:59 pm #87182
          sunjamr
          Participant

            Very nice. I’ve recently reached the stage where my existing pedalboard is too small, so I shall have to build a new one also. If you’ve been watching John Mayer, you must have seen the massive pedalboard he has on stage.

            Sunjamr Steve

          • December 10, 2017 at 6:44 am #87196
            Billy
            Participant

              Seeing as I now have 3 pedals then I may take a leaf out of your book and build a board to your design..

              ..Billy..

              • December 10, 2017 at 11:28 am #87208
                Kamen B
                Participant

                  3 pedals is the Rubikon… Once you cross that number you need a pedalboard 🙂

              • December 10, 2017 at 12:36 pm #87210
                Billy
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                  Kamen B wrote:

                  3 pedals is the Rubikon… Once you cross that number you need a pedalboard

                  I thought that was a river in Italy

                  ..Billy..

                  • December 15, 2017 at 8:09 am #87527
                    Kamen B
                    Participant

                      Exactly, a small river near Rome which if crossed by an army would trigger colossal chain of events 🙂

                  • December 16, 2017 at 7:08 pm #87624
                    Chuck H
                    Participant

                      IMG_2890

                      This is my current DIY board. Made with stock lumber, 2″ velcro and screws. The DIY one I had before this held 24 pedals split up between 2 amps….. I surmised I was starting to have a problem and cut back a little 🙂

                    • December 19, 2017 at 3:13 am #87765
                      Vojtech
                      Participant

                        My board uses Tack-It removable adhesive on a spare plank if you want to go the very easy way.

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