Orange squeeze STYLE booster?

[Single coil]

Right, so a couple months ago I had the idea to have a clean boost built into the same sort of enclosure as the old old orange squeezers were built in - The kind that plugs directly into your guitar and has a 9v battery inside it.

I wanted this rather than a pedal to A) unclutter my board a wee bit, and B) because I'll only ever use it with my tele to solve a volume issue.

If I can get myself a clean boost, is anyone here brave enough to try to attempt the build? The annoying bit is building a right angle thing to fit in the sunken tele jack.

But why can't you do it yourself?

I'm useless as at anything marginally electronic. I've tried to solder strat style pickguards before with... Pretty bad results. And I can't see the coloured wires properly anyway.


TL;DR
Electronics noob wants clean boost in orange squeezer style guitar jack enclosure.

This obviously isn't one, but I couldn't find a picture of an original orange squeeze in a guitar and this looks like a heaps better example anyway, weird japanese thing and all :

[ash]

Why don't you have it inside the guitar? More room and much less prone to disaster and drama in there.

[calling card]

I've used such a device in a strat configuration, a small circuit board in the control cavity and a battery stuffed between the trem springs. It was really quite likeable but for reasons of L-word must remain in hiding. Anyway my strats must remain 100% organic.

[Bg]

I'd snap that off a tele the first time I put it down

[jeremyb]

Why don't you have it inside the guitar? More room and much less prone to disaster and drama in there.

+1, enable it with a push pull pot even

[AiRdAd]

The Eric Clapton stratocaster have it. You can dial in the boost with the bottom tone knob. The circuit sits under the pickguard, and the battery is in with the trem springs.

That might not fit in your guitar though.

[Bg]

I've made a couple in the past, not hard. I've got a seymour duncan afterburner somewhere too, ready to go back in a strat.

[Single coil]

Why don't you have it inside the guitar? More room and much less prone to disaster and drama in there.

+1, enable it with a push pull pot even

I'd rather have the external thingy. If it breaks in the guitar, the guitar's out of the game until the unit's fixed.
That, and I don't need to do any routing or rewiring or adding switches etc to the guitar. And the unit will be portable......... Which I should've mentioned.

[Bg]

less chance of it breaking in the guitar though, more chance of you snapping the plug off in the tele socket...

[Single coil]

less chance of it breaking in the guitar though, more chance of you snapping the plug off in the tele socket...

I'm not a complete munter.


So, unanimous advice of NZG is "Cool idea, but probably not very practical"?

[Bg]

accidents happen, especially when on the edge of a guitar, telling ya, I'd break it off within 10 minutes Couple of beers and things get careless.

[jeremyb]

http://www.lovepedal.com/pedals/amp_50.html is TINY, and sounds great, Clarky has one

[Single coil]

http://www.lovepedal.com/pedals/amp_50.html is TINY, and sounds great, Clarky has one

Great, now who makes a clone with a battery in it?

[rickenbackerkid]

seriously, a small pedal is going to be more practical. Or if you only use it with one guitar, build it in. Clean boost circuits are simple and easy to build.

[Snarblinge]

it's a doddle to build, but put it in the Gat or leave it on the floor.

if you must battery power it, what battery were you thinking of using? 1.5v won't really cut it. and those car remote batteries are a bit pricey for how long you will likely get out of them. pretty much you are stuck with 9v it's too big to hang on an input jack, but easy to replace at that gig when it all starts to go wrong.

to save space i'd install it. easy as to remove, easy to install.

it would be far more practical to have it on the board.

who doesn't want more pedals on their board????