Chris2: Jarrods Board

So I've built a new board over the last couple of days, for Jarrod from City Escape.

I started out by cutting all of the pieces out and gluing/nailing them together, we built the board on a slope so it would be easier to reach the pedals at the back, and as there will be a microphone stand going under the board.

Here's some pics of the frame nailed together.

At the back end of the board(that will be facing the front of stage) I cut out two 250mmm x 50mm pieces of ply to act as back legs, leaving a gap of 130mm in the centre, for the stand to go under, and any cables that may need to run through.

Here's what it looks like underneath

And with a microphone stand

We decided to carpet the board, and Velcro/cable tie all of the pedals down, as he will be adding pedals to the board over the next few months, its more of a temporary option than mounting them all down with brackets.

I've use a contact bond to attach the carpet to the board, you spread a thin layer on both surfaces you want to stick together, and let them dry for 15 - 30 minutes, once they are touch dry you push them both together and they stick really tight.

I then cut slits in the sides of the carpet and removed the excess corner pieces that weren't needed

And i begun applying the bond onto each surface, waiting for them to dry, then folding the carpet over and attaching them.

I then ran out of contact bond, with one side left, so while Jarrod got some, i attached two handles to the board, one on each side, both centered.
These were just screwed on from underneath.

I cut the excess carpet left over after sticking with a Stanley knife.

The fully carpeted board looked like this:

After attaching all of the carpet to the board i used a staple gun to go around the sides and staple the carpet down for added support.

I then cleaned the backs of all the pedals, removing residue of old Velcro, and applied some new hook Velcro onto the back, that would attach to the carpet.

We laid out the pedals in Jarrod preference onto the board, then drilled holes for the cable ties to fit through, and cable tied them all down onto the board, all except for

the boss stomp boxes, which the Velcro held down enough.

And a shot of underneath:

we then connected up all of the leads and power to the pedals, the boss stomps and shape shifter are powered off a daisy chained PSA, and the line 6 off a proline 1A adapter.
We cable tied the adapters onto the board board, and the loose cable was also put into that cable tie.
There is also excess cable hidden under the lead going between the two boss stomp pedals.

We then put 4 rubber feet along the back of the board, to stop it from sliding around, these were just attached with some self tapping screws

And thats it, in two short days we completed a nice looking carpeted board, which can go at the front of stage with the mic stand slotting in nicely underneath.