i just wanted to show the newest in technology. it's called a toaster oven. it's the newest "tool" in my "shop". it is used to burn out weird chemicals in paint. it's also used to make pizza rolls. but seriously, baking pedals is like way fun. just pour yourself a nice stiff one and hang out in the backyard for an hour watching paint dry.


i also realized that if i want to compete in today's pedal market, i was going to have to up my game. girls don't dig guys in a sensible cars (a fact i've proven time and time again) and they certainly could care less about a guy who plays solid color pedals. but two colors? ladies cannot resist that kind of peacocking. first thing you got to do is wrap that shit up in tape.

then i'm going to spray this thing with a gold paint. the color gold is deeply rooted in humans. instantly the pedal shoots up in value. the box i've painted on has also tripled in value.


the good thing about tape is getting to peel that shit off. so there's an upside to tape. but it comes with a price. just look at this. cream on the inside, clean on the outside.


now i've got to put wires in this thing.

a quick update. my first commissioned piece of work is on its way to greatness. i sanded this down months ago and haven't found the time to get it back on track. but now is the time.


behold the transformation. white, what could be less black?


plus the matching headstock? this thing is going straight to the top of the charts.

i just got done with these two guitars as of tonight. they both rule in their own way.

they also were both a pain in the ass to bring back to life. i won't go into detail but trust me. lots of wood filler, crazy glue, and rewound pickups went into these.

the strat has that twangy character that i realize now is not for me. but i'm going to play with it for a while before i sell it, just to make sure.

the les paul was raised from the dead in so many ways that i feel like i'll be playing this one a lot. i didn't think i'd like it because of the maple neck, but actually, that's my favorite part.

the only thing left on this one is the headstock logo. i'm having a silkscreen made next weekend. i can feel that going wrong already.

the reviews are in. check out a review for the 'cmg + we are the night' record --->here.

then we add the volume knob, circuit board and 9v hookup. this little guy will have no battery hookup because, a) batteries suck. b) look at how small this thing is. you couldn't fit a battery if you tried. i was pretty impressed with this one.

and here she is all closed up and ready to plug in.

crap. no name country dudes from the 70's will never stop getting to me.

i'm not a big fan of guitar pedals because they cost so much. i bought three of them in 1997 and have had them ever since. but because i'm playing guitar for the cmg band, i needed a booster pedal to boost up my volume for my sweet solos. so i bought one and it cost me like $200. they retail at $315. what a drag. so opened up this thing to put in a battery and inside the pedal was the smallest circuit board i have ever seen. now i'm thinking $200 for this? i just got ripped off.

but reading into it, you're paying for the idea and circuit design. good enough. but if you read further you realize that there are only a handful of original designs when it comes to guitar circuits. so all these pedals you see are just variations of an original idea. mostly separated by a few changes in the values of resistors, ect..., which change the sound ever so slightly.

so that means all these pedal makers are hacks. and i know for certain that i'm a hack. so i went out and got a bunch of electric components to whip up a little something of my own. so what i did was download some schematics of some pedals i liked or thought would be cool and started trying to understand how they work. i knew this would take me a long while so i started on the artwork which is really the raddest part anyways.

i used water slide decal paper and just printed out some designs. waterslide decal paper is the best. i never knew it existed. you want to put some shit on a mug or on a model train, check this stuff out.

i found a lot of people making clones of famous boost circuits. so i figure i'd go the cloning route to kick it off. so the first two circuits i'm building are rooted in the mxr "microamp"



and the zvex "super hard on."



simple and sweet. real basic electronics going on here. a handful of parts and now we have a circuit.

got a few aluminum cases, drilled holes, painted them white and put my decals on them and coated them clear. introducing the deets "little man" and the limited edition "blunt mechanic krackle" made for ben barnett. if anybody needs a boost for solo's, it's that dude.

so the next step is to wire these dudes up and pray that they work.