DIY Foot Drum

[jugglindan]

Lookin' good

Also, I got three piezo transducers with the set I bought. They are currently wired in parallel on the one socket, but I was planning to snip two off anyway as I don't need all three. Happy to mail one up to you.

[JohnH]

An update on my attempts as I play along at home.

I tried a single coil with a thin metal sheet but couldn't really get it to sound any good. To be fair, I didn't spend a lot of time on it, but it wasn't really doing much for me.

Tried a piezo, but also found it made a tiny tap rather than a thud (probably unsurprisingly).

Raided my random speaker box and found I only had these three to choose from. The big guy is a 4" 4 Ohm, then there's a small 8 Ohm and the two small 4 Ohm speakers from an old bluetooth unit. After trying all three the bluetooth speaker gave the best result - a good thud, which was quite loud when I ran it through a boost pedal

[jugglindan]

It's looking more and more like a small speaker is the way to go with these things. I have a 5" driver and can salvage some smaller 3" speakers from the remains of the PC speaker set that I got the broken sub speaker from.

[JohnH]

When the 4" one went thump it was impressive, but I really needed to give it a whack. I only had to tap the small one for a good sound, so that seems ideal for the application. Glad I salvaged that little bluetooth speaker from my old job!

[jugglindan]

Interesting, thanks.

[FrankenWashie]

[jugglindan]

Awesome!!!

I had better crack on with the FS-808. Taking a break tonight. One too many Coopers Extra Stouts for good soldering

[FrankenWashie]

Umm, I might have gone a little OTT on sanding this afternoon.



This result is particularly exciting, as the blank that generated the top and bottom of the enclosure came off of the plank that generated this puppy:



I hadn’t thought to ask what finish you wanted on this before I started sanding, if you want to paint or clear it you’ll probably need to knock it back to 320 or 400, as opposed to the polished finish I’ve got it to.




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[FrankenWashie]

the image quality isn’t fantastic but hopefully it conveys how much grain feature has come up on this thing.

[jugglindan]

That looks fantastic. There is no way I could put paint over that. I have some satin poly, but maybe an oil finish of some sort would be better. I am open to suggestions.

I also love the connection to one of your other builds. Do you have a link to the build diary of that guitar? I made good progress on the FS-808 yesterday, and should be able to wire it up for testing tonight.