Chuck’s ST-1M “Surfcaster” build

[wokkaboy]

yeah that would be cool Chuck and I would give a bonus point score judging it in GOTM if you did that !

[Chuck]

Okay, time to reveal the other thing I've been working on in relation to this build... I think there's a thread somewhere I mentioned that I was starting to build a pedal, and here it is!

The Surfmaster will need some fuzz, so the "Surface" pedal was born (a "Surf" inspired Fuzz "Face" clone... see what we did there!). I picked up the kit from diyguitarpedals.com.au (it's their Facemaster kit), and eventually got it together under the watchful eye of a mate who knows about this stuff way more than me. My daughter then painted the enclosure and today I put it all together.

It actually sounds pretty good - but I'll save sound files until the guitar is complete. The only rookie error is that the tone knob has ended up back to front, so rolling it back actually brings in more highs. I guess I could fix it but I kind of like it - as a bass player I think it makes sense that turning up the tone brings in more bass!

[wokkaboy]

cool looking pedal Chuck, great the the surfcaster will have a matching pedal

[Chuck]

Looking awesome Chuck! I really love the headstock shape man. How did you create your headstock decal? Is it just a water-slide? Could you tell me the font, color, printer type etc. to replicate? I would really like to do something similar.

The font is Brushscript and I did it all in Photoshop (created an outline for the font, then played around with "brown" tones to fill to try and get as gold as possible.). All the various logos etc where then dragged into Word where I played around with getting the sizes right. I then picked up some laserjet waterslide paper off ebay and printed it on the laserjet printer at work. It's much simpler than I thought it would be.

Unfortunately I don't have access to Photoshop right now as I was using the work copy, and I've just left that company! As soon as I find a Photoshop source I'll get details on the brown/gold colour - or I could send you the Photoshop file and you could play around with my template?

[WeirdBits]

Great paint job on the pedal, very cool. Which reminds me, I've got a Facemaster kit tucked away somewhere that I should get onto sometime.

[wokkaboy]

Weirdy I reckon your house is full of unfinished projects and you have more than I do !

[gavinturner]

The font is Brushscript and I did it all in Photoshop (created an outline for the font, then played around with "brown" tones to fill to try and get as gold as possible.). All the various logos etc where then dragged into Word where I played around with getting the sizes right. I then picked up some laserjet waterslide paper off ebay and printed it on the laserjet printer at work. It's much simpler than I thought it would be.

Unfortunately I don't have access to Photoshop right now as I was using the work copy, and I've just left that company! As soon as I find a Photoshop source I'll get details on the brown/gold colour - or I could send you the Photoshop file and you could play around with my template?

Thanks man that's great. Unfortunately I dont have Photoshop only Gimp (the freeware app ). Given what you've just told me I may be able to play around now and see what I can come up with!

cheers,
Gav.

[JB RETRO]

If I'd thought about it more it would have been great to get a stainless steel insert for the hook so it really could crack a beer!!

Make some mini replica headstocks with your logo so they can actually open a beer, and give em out to your mates. A bit of publicity and pretty cool. By the way I'll have one. Ha!

[wokkaboy]

ahha cool idea JB, I'll have one too thanks Chuck (when you get time haha)

[JB RETRO]

There's 2 orders so far. I can help make them under license. mmm beer