Back in college, one of my professors explained to us the Rule of Pi. While that probably meant something different in the math building, in the engineering building it meant the following:

All engineering projects, big or small, will take approximately as much time as the original estimate multiplied by pi.

-Dr. Paul Hummel, PhD

One of my other professors later explained a related rule:

Engineering projects can be good, they can be fast, and they can be cheap, but they can only be two of those at once.

-Dr. Davis Harbour, PhD

I have chosen good and cheap for this project, because I want a quality product and I don't have a lot of time/cash to put into it all at once. And so, I allotted about a year to finish the project. Then, as I found less and less time to work on my amp, the Rule of Pi started popping into my head.

I really don't want this project to drag on for three years.

I hope to have a new post in early November, with a plan of action around that tone-stack problem and some experimental data to post. At this point, I'm hoping that at least the practice build will be finished by the end of 2014.