Throbby in a wah enclosure

Basic Audio · **Joined:** Wed Feb 03, 2010 11:49 pm **Posts:** 889

Throbby Tremolo

ParanoidAndroid · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:48 am

stunning!
like the rubber foot pad!

KBC · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:09 am

Damn looks nice.

Crankston Shnord · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:17 am

Wow, that's great!! I've often wondered about putting other pedals into a wah enclosure......

mrclean77 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:47 am

Stick to it and one day I'm sure you'll get the hang of this stuff, BA

Love this thing and am also diggin' the backdrop/springs

guitarmageddon · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 12:09 pm

mrclean77 wrote:

Love this thing and am also diggin' the backdrop/springs

+1 Wonderful build and pics.
How'd you relic that enclosure? Looks like it was buried in the dirt then burned, along with that matress.

raulduke · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 1:16 pm

Yep..... its amazing!

Really like the burnt/rusty look.

Would you mind filling us in on how you got the finish John?

GrindCustoms · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:27 pm

Amazing! Grip pad invite you to go play in some dirt!

WillEngineerForBeer · **Joined:** Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:46 pm **Posts:** 2

Did you repair a hole in the enclosure on the corner beneath the LED? There must be a good story behind that.

loves_guitar · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:04 pm

I'd love to see a Basic Audio-only pedalboard!

Great work, John.

Basic Audio · **Joined:** Wed Feb 03, 2010 11:49 pm **Posts:** 889

Ha! Good call on the mattress springs. :lol:

I pulled apart an old mattress we were using so I could
take the metal to the scrapyard and trash the cotton...
They make a nice backdrop with the rust and depth of field.

There was a hole in the shell from an old modification.
I tried to fill it with an aluminum rod and torch but it got the
enclosure too hot before the filler metal melted and the whole
corner semi collapsed. I filled it mostly but left the ragged hole
at it worked well with the look I was going for.

I used acid to etch the enclosure along with heavy course sanding
and grinding. Thinned Asphaltum for color as well as shellac and
polyurethane. It probably took 20 coats/etches/color application
to get it to where you see it.
Experimentation is key, do it!

nicofx · **Posted:** Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:13 am

insanely good!!

Kunfuz · **Posted:** Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:07 am

Wow, look like you found it on the bottom of a tarpit :shock:

And use the mattress skeleton for a DIY Rambo electro-torture device :mrgreen:

Basic Audio · **Joined:** Wed Feb 03, 2010 11:49 pm **Posts:** 889

Kunfuz wrote:

And use the mattress skeleton for a DIY Rambo electro-torture device :mrgreen:

Glad I saved all those car batteries. Good idea. :lol:

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