Home brewed alternative for Switch-3

I've written before about this nice, no, awesome TC Helicon vocal/guitar processor with a hefty name: Voicelive Play GTX. There is an optional 3-pole footswitch to control the oh-so-many options in the processor. The company is kind enough to provide the diy customer with the schematics to make his/her own footswitch. I already made one, but it turned out to be too small and light weighted to take all the tramping action. In addition, as I thought would happen, the plastic switches couldn't hold their own in use.

So, back to the bench, I ordered three rugged metal momentary switches and made the prototype #2# out of flamed redwood that never made it to be a top of a guitar. This time I made it wide enough to accommodate toes or shoe tip on one button without pushing the others, and deep enough to prevent the box from tipping when pushed. It's working like a charm and looking WAY better than the usual black metal box design.

You can program this optional footswitch to do a plethora of things. Turn on and off different vocal effects and harmonies, set tap tempo, give looping commands, boost guitar and effects etc. I wouldn't be surprised if you could even make some coffee with it.

The setup is a very basic wooden box with slanted roof. The intestines were soldered and attached before the bottom  plate was glued in. A layer of foam from what used to be a mousepad keeps the thing from surfing around.

I got this new device called TC Helicon Voicelive Play GTX (Such a hefty name they gave to it). Anyway, it has an option for a footswitch. Helicon themselves are selling one for 40-50€. After some research I decided it was too much for a box of metal, eight wires, one stereo jack, two diodes and three momentary switches. So I decided to make one on my own. Out of scrap wood, of course.

The components for the thing cost 2,40€ at SP-Elektroniikka. Unfortunately, they only had plastic push button switches. Might have to ebay something sturdier some day.

The schematics is easy enough for anybody with a soldering iron. Here is more information of making the thing.

I made the "pedal" by gluing three 10mm pieces of redwood together, then routing a cavity in the middle, slanting the box with belt sander and gluing on the cocobolo "top". After the electronics were soldered in place, I sealed everything with a cedrela odorata baseplate.

And here is how it looks like.

Hi-tech and lo-tech side by side. The top is cocobolo, body is figured redwood and baseplate is cedar. 

Sorry about the plastic knobs. They hurt my eyes, but do the job exceptionally

Recessed jack and an oops-hole.