My fancy new pedalboard

[Dr ZEE]

.. I now have to make some decisions. ...

In the Film "Executive Decision" Kurt pulls the stressfully chewed sucking straw out of Oliver's mouth, holds it in his face and sais: "Cahill, you an engineer. Use your instincts.", and then gives the straw back. That straw saves the day at the end.
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The board looks cool to me. Enjoy the process. Try to have fun, as much as you can, sort of. Being too serious all the time may not be too healthy

here's Oliver, looking cool

 

[thebigcheese]

Now I really have to do some thinking. It's pretty much ready to be assembled now, but I have to figure out how I'm going to do the bottom first before I cut the sides. Any suggestions as to how I might get a flat bottom attached to the angled sides? I guess I could just put the board next to it and trace to get the right angle, but I was thinking it might be nice to have a fully-enclosed board, so I would want the bottom to be able to open without much hassle, but also be able to stay closed.

This morning I added carpet to the top. It looks pretty nice, but obviously I still have to cut holes in the carpet. I hate cutting carpet. It is a huge pain. I glued it down with some spray craft glue and then, just to be safe, I stapled it with a staple gun. Wouldn't want it coming off in the middle of a show

While the glue was drying, I drilled some holes in my plastic enclosure and ran the wires in and wired up the jacks. I see now why RadioShack cables are not the greatest, but as long as they still work... Unfortunately, I can't do much else with the jacks until I figure out the situation with the bottom so that I can cut the sides and screw the jacks in there.

 

[Dr ZEE]

Looks good.

Any suggestions as to how I might get a flat bottom attached to the angled sides? I guess I could just put the board next to it and trace to get the right angle, but I was thinking it might be nice to have a fully-enclosed board, so I would want the bottom to be able to open without much hassle, but also be able to stay closed.

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Again, you ARE THE engineer. Surprize yourself
Just to keep you company, I've made couple drawings, not as "suggestions", but as extra food for thoughts.
First of, I'd guess I would build it differently from the start. There are many ways to do it. The top side view of cuts shows you how I would start the plan in general (without details).
Your case is the second side "view". (sort of )
I guess, the simplest thing to do in your situation is to attach sides to match the side shape (just you said).
I am attaching second drawing, showing how you could build the base for the Top-Part as you have now. The base would consist of floor, side support blocks (inside) and Side Panels. You can actually carpet the side panels all around (except the area where they are attached to the support bocks/and floor sides) , (NOTE: make sure that you reserve a little extra space to fit the top, if you wrap-carpet the sides, add thikness of the carpet-times-two to the overall floor width). So you have the base. You then simply drop-in your top Part with all the stuff on it and it should fit into the base and sit there tight while you are tap-dancing on it
Also add some heavy rubber feet to the "foor".

 

[thebigcheese]

I think I'm going to go with an idea something like the drawing on the left. I don't have any pictures right now, but it's almost done! I just have to get some material for the sides and then attach my little input/output box. The pedalboard cable set I got is kind of annoying in that running cables under the board is more of a pain (the cables are kind of stiff and it makes plugging them in a pain) than leaving them all on top, in some ways. It looks cleaner, though.

Today I also started another project, which is to mod my BYOC tremolo so that it stops clipping with my loud humbuckers. Still have to test that one, though. I'm also thinking of building a preamp to save some money, but I have no idea where to begin with that or if it would even be worthwhile.

 

[thebigcheese]

Ok, I came up with an idea to keep it in place that is a little ghetto, but works very well. You know those pads you can buy to put on your dashboard to keep your gadgets from sliding around? Well, at Home Depot, you can buy something like that, but in a big roll for like $5. I discovered that I can just unroll it and place it as a mat under my pedalboard and it keeps it very securely in place. I'm going to try to get the sides cut later today so I can finish up the rest of the board, then I will upload pictures!

 

[thebigcheese]

Aaaaaand... DONE! I decided, after cutting them, that I don't want sides. It seems like it would just make it more of a pain to grab and move around. But if I change my mind in the future, I guess I've already got them done Here are the last two pictures. The first one is a rather unflattering view from the top so that you can see all the holes I had to cut in the carpet. The second view is from the side so you can see where I added the input and output jacks. Hopefully, the glue will hold Thanks for reading and contributing!

 

[Guitarer]

Looks good, I'd add some support bracing though if you stomp on your effects.

 

[thebigcheese]

Looks good, I'd add some support bracing though if you stomp on your effects.

It's pretty sturdy, actually. That board is nearly an inch thick. I wouldn't try jumping up and down on it, but I can definitely stand on it no problem.