I found this company on tinterweb yesterday -

www.buildyourownclone.com


Does any one have an experience with them?

The reviews that I read said that it was really easy do. If I could actually build one, then it wouldn't be way way cheaper than buying one new - but cheap enough to make me feel good about saving a few quid.

But more than that I like the idea of doing a little project like this - it might be a way for me to learn a few things about electrical stuff and the like.

Any thoughts anybody? Anybody build, built or building their own stuff like this?

p.s I would be aiming for the 250+ which is meant to be the easiest to start with.

if you can solder to a decent standard and can follow circuit diagrams then i should imagine that they'd be fairly straight forward to do.

Like you said, a simple booster/overdrive circuit would be a good starting point. Those build your own clone kits even have printed circuit boards so it should be a piece of cake.

I think the first attempt i ever did at making a pedal was a clone of the EHX LPB-1 - literally six components soldered together. Good fun!

gjhardwick wrote:if you can solder to a decent standard and can follow circuit diagrams then i should imagine that they'd be fairly straight forward to do.

I'm pretty sure I could follow the diagrams - and the instructions seem pretty clear... BUT - I have no experience soldering. Which is, at the moment, the only thing that is making me question doing this.

I found that making my own instrument cables was a good way to polish up my soldering chops. Pedals can be a bit tricky if you have hands of stone like I do.

B_M_L wrote:

gjhardwick wrote:if you can solder to a decent standard and can follow circuit diagrams then i should imagine that they'd be fairly straight forward to do.

I'm pretty sure I could follow the diagrams - and the instructions seem pretty clear... BUT - I have no experience soldering. Which is, at the moment, the only thing that is making me question doing this.

Start practicing, it's not hard. Disassemble/reassemble a cable several times. If one was going to start DIY stompboxes, this site looks like one of the easiest ways to start.

Ok. I bought one. Not the 250+, but the Ultimate Fuzz Kit which is the Fuzz Face clone.

Thanks for the saying it's easy! I'm quite excited about this...

[nerd]
You rang?

My project for this summer is learning how to build homemade Big Muffs (like, dual function Big Muff + octave, Big Muff + reverb, etc).

I've been in the process of building a kit Tweed forever, but that's neither here nor there.

[/nerd]

Also, I am poking around on this buildyourownclone site and it rules.

There is a pretty good forum on the site - Loads have people have been asking the same dumb questions that I would have asked. They need to be introduced to the Kerble I think.

B_M_L wrote: They need to be introduced to the Kerble I think.

Go ahead.