Wow. This is harder than it looks.

So is posting all the time....

Between waiting on parts orders, family vacation, the job search, and various and sundry life occurrences,  I haven't worked on the fuzz build at all hardly.

'Craig', you say, with a note of sadness in your voice, 'I am extremely disappointed.'

I know, and excuses aren't going to cut it. But I have my reasons...in no particular order:

Family Spring Break trip to Chicago. Museums, parking, tales of action and adventure, and the (almost) $600 set of lost keys.

Job hunting.

Family stuff.

So, anyway, let's get caught up, shall we?

A while back, I had this fantastic idea. 'Self, ' I said to myself, 'it would make sense if you had some sort of test box for the effect circuits you are going to build. So that, if there's an issue, you don't have to rip apart an entire pedal to find the issue.'

'Why, that's a CAPITAL idea, self! I shall design and build one forthwith! I mean, how hard can it be? Why, I would bet that there are already existing plans out on the Internets.'

'There certainly are - and I would bet that you could whip together a simple box with a minimum of effort...'

I won't go into the details, but let's just say that there was an enormous amount of FAIL involved with that idea. The good news is that it helped me avoid some mistakes that really could have torpedoed my whole first effort.

So, fast forward to today. 'Self, you are GOING to get that circuit done.' I break out the soldering iron, the parts, the wire....A little soldering, some quick connections for testing, and a battery clip.

Quickly inspect the board for any cold joints, then break out the Strat and practice amp, fire it up, and....

Houston, we have fuzz. There is still the matter of wiring the switch, bypass board and led, but the circuit works. Lots of silicon fuzzy goodness. Yay.