My Acoustic 470 footswitch project

[wshines1892]

Didn't know whether this belonged in amps or over here, but I'm working on making a footswitch for my new to me Acoustic 470 head. I went by an antique mall the other day out of boredom mostly and found a pretty cool Guess sunglasses tin that I thought might make a pretty cool looking footswitch enclosure. Payed a buck for it and set to work with the components I purchased from pedal parts plus and this is what I have to show for it.



All that's left to do is find some 5 conductor cable to wire it up to the Jones plug for the other end. Anyway, just thought I'd share.

 

[hamertek98]

Cool!

 

[neuman]

That's cool. I used Altoids tins to make a chorus footswitch case for my practice amp and another Altoids tin for my Zoom B# modded footswitch.

It's always fun to see how people reuse/repurpose things.

 

[wshines1892]

Yeah, it's pretty cool to go out to places where they have random junk like that just to see what you can find. I spotted some pretty cool candle bases that would have worked, some jello and bread pans that were different shapes like fish and what not that you could have flipped over and thrown some switches in, and then obviously cigar boxes, wine boxes, and random tins.

I thought this one had kind of a cool Andy Warhol vibe to it and obviously it's divided into 4 parts which worked well for my 4 switches. I may have to do the same for my Zoom since I've been meaning to make a footswitch or it too.