stomp box housing sources?

[Justin Herrmann]

For a cool looking and cheap stompbox enclosure, use a metal electrical
box, the kind with the metal access disks you can pry out.  Not to good
for a professional looking design, though.

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Barry L Klein wrote:

> What would you guys recommend as a source for a generic stomp box housing?
>  I'd like something like the cast aluminum Bud boxes that MXR used but
> they are too cost-prohibitive now.  Are there perhaps overseas
> manufactures of these that price them much cheaper?
> 
> I have been thinking of doing effects box circuit kits or at least a book
> on them, and you can get a commercial product for less than the parts cost
> I would have to pay to make one on my own, yet alone resell it.  Anyone
> have experience with the packaging aspects of such efforts?
> 
> I'd ideally like to find a cheaper alternative to the Bud box and then
> perhaps even just go with the stock non-painted surface and apply thick
> aluminum stickers for the labeling.  Get fancier if its justified later
> on.
> 
> 
> 
> Barry
>