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A project log for A/B OY! Switchbox

Neither a typical A/B switch nor A/B/Y, this box links my acoustic and electric guitar rigs for tuning goodness and sonic awesome. (Maybe.)

theonetruestickmantheonetruestickman 04/07/2014 at 01:420 Comments

A pre-finished box makes me scared of screwing it up. This is a good thing, because I was a lot more careful and only messed up the power jack hole.

It was fairly simple to transfer my guestimates from the cardboard mock-up to masking tape on the real box, with all the usual tweaking to get it to look right.

I drilled one of the jack holes to make sure I had the clearances for switch placement right... it would stink to screw that up. The jack holes are actually just a tiny bit tight at 3/8" (on the high quality jack), just had to wiggle the bit around slightly and then they popped in no problem.

This is what it looked like after drilling:

Step bits are awesome.

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