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Guides, tips, and techniques for DIY guitar pedal builders. Hands-on advice from the workshop.
Tayda UV Printing and Drilling: How to Order a Custom Pedal Enclosure
Lay out a pedal in Stompbox Layout, then have Tayda drill and UV print the enclosure: the drill template, the print file, the PDF Analyzer check, and what came back.
Read article →How to Cure GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) as a Guitar Player
Practical ways to keep Gear Acquisition Syndrome (GAS) under control: tune out marketing, buy versatile gear, learn your guitar, and play more than you shop.
Read article →Where to Buy Guitar Pedal Parts in the UK
Where to buy guitar pedal parts as a UK DIY builder: Rapid, Switch Electronics, Bitsbox, Mouser, Gorva enclosures, and EU cross-border sources.
Read article →How to Drill a Guitar Pedal Enclosure
How to drill clean, accurate holes in an aluminium pedal enclosure: a printed paper template or a 3D printed drill jig, centre punch technique, pilot and step drilling, and the hole sizes.
Read article →Design your drill template
Place holes with sub-millimetre precision on standard enclosures and export print-ready PDF drill templates.
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