Simple Pedalboard Build Play by Play

I decided to redo my boards and make a portable grab and go board that is also small enough I can use it with my practice setup.
Point is not to show the pedals I have, there's a pile of them. But I want to show that any buffoon (me) with low cost hand tools and limited skill can do this.

Parts:
1X2 trim board, these usually come in 6' length at Lowes or Home Depot.
1X3 trim board, these come in 8' and other sizes.
2 cabinet handles of your choosing.
Can of spray paint.
Adhesive Velcro, don't cheap out on substitutes.
Cable guides of your choosing.
Deck screws, I used 1.5" for the board and 5/8' for the cable guides.
Wood glue like Elmers or Gorilla.
Sheet of sandpaper or a file.

Tools were a cheapo plastic box miter with a hand miter saw, sold in a kit at Lowes, cheap!
A drill and a screw bit. Or a torx bit in my case. Either one is fine.

Total build time about 30 minutes plus paint-dryin' time.

Cut boards. Note the top deck planks are as wide as you need, in my case this was for 4 pedals. You can add a 3rd piece if you want 2 rows of pedals. The rest of the pieces are the width you desire. Here I used 13" for the decking and 5 3/8 for the rest.

Here are the cut boards:

Here I've placed the parts to make sure I didn't screw anything up:

Side/heel screwed and glued:

Kind of a cool looking handle, from the kitchen cabinet hardware section at Lowes:

How about black? Priming is a sign of weakness.

Screwded and glueded:

Bottom looks nice. I got sick of the adhesive cable guides popping off so I upgraded to a more permanent solution:

And the topside, coming together. EBS flat patch cables FTW:

 

Thanks. It's not fancy but I can stand on it and nothing is going to fall off. I wanted to show how easy it is to do this, I am not "handy".

 

I’ve made these for myself and a few friends in different sizes. My bigger one has a bottle opener in the corner. It’s a conversation starter.

I started because I learned about the hack using a crate from IKEA which looked cool but was pretty flimsy. This isn’t fancy but it holds my weight so any dumb thing that happens in a gig it would withstand.

 

Look, I'd cut my leg off if I had a chop saw. I am good at some things and woodworking is not one of them. But this is a piece of cake. Seriously took 30 minutes to cut it and assemble, minus the painting. One of these cheap saws and miter box is about $14. I'm not afraid to buy a metal board but I change mine around so much this makes more sense. I have one for my bass, one for my guitar and one that is mostly midi effects for occasional use and recording. It makes cleanup easy!

 

I like it a lot, it adds a nice warmth to my solid state amp but it doesn't kill the sparkle if I break out a brighter bass like a MusicMan. I'm really happy with it.

 

I've gone a little easy on the Velcro so I can plunk the PAX on if I want to.
If you add a 3rd plank on the top it's easily enough for 2 rows of pedals. Last one I made holds about 10 devices. I'll probably make a new one for guitar when the JC Emerald shows up in a couple months or so, I'll post a pic over there at that point.