Handmade Pedal Board

wkwon

wkwon

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I don't want to shell out $100-200 to get a piece of wood to stick my pedals on. I've seen this at shows where people just buy a flat piece of wood and use that as their pedal board.

Are there any downsides to this? Can I just velcro the pedals onto the board?

thanks.
 
Use 1/4'' plywood and then apply carpet to it. Buy some handles from home-depot and you got yourself your own pedalboard. The only downside would be finding a flight case to fit your pedalboard perfectly.
 
By the way, my board is just a piece of plywood painted black with velcro on it. I also added a riser that I made for another board. It's just a couple pieces of 1x6. It has velcro on it, too.. That way I can remove it when I want to.

Pic:

http://www.rig-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1825
 
I used MDF wood, since it is stronger than plywood. It is heavier, though. I glued indoor/outdoor carpet to it using spray on glue, and put velocro on the bottom of all my pedals, and they stick really well. I screwed on 2 drawer handles so it's easy to lift, and screwed on some rubber furniture feet on the bottom to stop it from moving on wooden stages. It fits perfectly into a bass guitar case which I bought used at a pawn shop for cheap! (I had to modify the case a bit, mainly I removed the storage compartment in the middle)
 
I bought a piece of kick-plate from home depot and drilled holes in it. Then I zip-tied my pedals in place and put two handles on it.

(yes, this was at a time when I was playing a dual rec)...I'm too lazy to change it.

It took me like maybe an hour to put together, but it's tough and looks really sharp.


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Buidling your own board is extremely easy. I basically just bought a project board at Home Depot for my pedals, then I just got a couple of different types of doorstops which I used to tilt the board. Then I used some of that crazy super-strength velcro (which I also got @ HD) on the pedals and the board, it's really strong and it doesn't ruin the pedal/paint when you need to remove it.

I mainly just use it at home for the sake of organization. It's pretty big and I just stick a million pedals on it. If I were to need a board for gigging, I'd probably just buy a small pedalboard at a GC or something. I'd probably only use a few pedals anyways in that case.
 
         
ScreaminKing":51ddc said:
Buidling your own board is extremely easy. I basically just bought a project board at Home Depot for my pedals, then I just got a couple of different types of doorstops which I used to tilt the board. Then I used some of that crazy super-strength velcro (which I also got @ HD) on the pedals and the board, it's really strong and it doesn't ruin the pedal/paint when you need to remove it.
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Me too, but that doorstop idea is brilliant. I've never heard that idea before!
 
tocs100":60ae8 said:
Me too, but that doorstop idea is brilliant. I've never heard that idea before!
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My friend and I were walking around Home Depot and he just thought of it. The outcome was probably as perfect as possible.

I forgot to say that I also used a couple of big drawer handles on each side of the board. It's great for lifting it and for threading cables through.
 
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