Colors

With everything primered and ready to go, it was time to paint the colors. Note: dont forget to bring jams to listen to while doing this as it takes awhile. The colors I chose were determined from the selection at Pepboys, but by far the one that came out the coolest was the metallic blue. The yellow came out a little thin, but whatever I ran out of paint so there wasnt much I could do about it aside from going to buy more which Im too lazy to do. It should be cool after it gets clear coated anyway. I also switched to a dual hanger setup which saved me a lot of time because waiting for the boxes to dry in between coats was taking forever.

Primer Time

Time to put some primer on. If you live in a shoebox sized apartment like me in Los Angeles, painting inside isnt really an option nor is using your dark dismal parking garage. So with those out of the question, I headed off to find a suitable painting spot. I found a "beautiful" spot down by where the dumpsters used to be that I figured was sheltered enough to be a good painting spot. Depressing eh?

The primer (acquire from Pepboys) went on fairly smoothly. I applied two coats to each piece and made sure to take them off and hang them upside down in between each coat. That was to make sure I didnt miss any spots on the bottom of the pieces.

Getting Ready to Paint

Now it was time to prep the boxes for painting. The first step was to sand them all down so the primer would stick a little better. I used 150 grit paper which I figured would be fine enough for this. After each piece was sanded I cleaned all of the sanding dust and grease off of them with Lacquer Thinner. This may or may not annoy your roommate if you do it in the living room....

Spray Box

Despite the fact that I really wanted to start soldering right away, a quick look at the instructions convinced me that I should really get the enclosures done first before I started to trying to attach switches, pots, etc to them. The first step was to fashion a spraybooth out of a cardboard box and a hanger. Here's what I came up with, and it worked out pretty well since it allowed me to turn the pieces as they were being sprayed without touching them.

Materials

Heres a shot of the pedals as they arrived to me from GGG. They are a 60s Fuzz Face, an Octavia, and a PT80 delay. Why did I decide to build 3 pedals at once? Boredom mostly and the fact that these 3 pedal kits cost that same as any one of these pedals does normally. After watching a couple vids on youtube I was fairly confident Id be happy with the results. We will see if thats true.