Paul_C wrote:I see
I can see myself acquiring lots of parts before long (for one thing, some of the sellers on eBay sell 100 of some things for the price of 10 elsewhere, so it would be foolish to only have 10
) but I thought starting slow might have been a good idea, even though it doesn't usually take long before a simple four pedal board becomes 30 or buying one weird looking Yamaha bass finished with me owning 16 (all gone now) so I ought to have known from the start it would get crazy pretty quickly.
Paul - I'm in the UK too (East Anglia these days) and buy stuff from Tayda, Futurlec , and several other Far Eastern companies. I also buy stuff out of Shenzhen in China. You should also get "cash" accounts (no credit involved) with CPC / Farnell and my local supplier which is Rapid Electronics
https://www.rapidonline.com/ The UK ones are more expensive than the Far East, but you get the parts next day!
The one thing I can't find at reasonable price is a
Wah Shell - diecast with a good hinge and (ideally) the rack and pinion mechanism. I bought some shells a few years ago from the Far East, but they stopped making them. I successfully used crossed plastic polarised filters to vary the light falling on LDRs in a few wahs and pedal phasers (a neglected device, I find). The filters worked at least as well as the Morley shutter arrangement, and were very robust. Anyone got any ideas for Wah Shells? I'd even put up with the nasty cheap ones that Colorsound use!