DIY Guitar Amp made with Amazon Parts

This is a mini amp I made from parts purchased on Amazon.  The total came to about $43 shipped, and there are enough parts to make 2 amps.

Here's the final product with instructions and part links:

 

This is the little amp chip.

And here's the basic hookup diagram.

 

These are all the parts used:

 

  

And here they are hooked up for testing:

I highly recommend a bigger speaker, however.

One mod you can do to save money is to remove the 1/8" mini jack and solder your 1/4" TRS plug inputs directly to the Signal Positive and Negative, as shown below.

 

 

If you decide to keep the mini jack, you'll use either a TS plug "tip=+" or TRS "ring=+"

1/4" input(below) is as follows:  tip="input +", Ring="battery -", Sleeve="input -".

Be sure to get the battery negative connection correct at the TRS "Ring" so your amp only turns on when a plug is inserted!

 Here's another diagram:

Speaker connections:

Battery Positive only

Glue in your battery box:

This is the amp and speaker cabinet I made, but pick your favorite little box that fits all the parts:

 

 

 

 

Glue in your speaker:

Finish your cabinet with oil or poly..

Install and tighten the amp in chassis.

Install the Input jack.

 

Pick a knob, and you're ready to go!

 

Guitar Picks made from wood DIY

 Here's a template for a diy wood guitar pick.
You can use it to make your own wood picks by cutting them out on a cricut maker or other cnc device!

You can download it from here and then upload it into Canvas or Illustrator, Photoshop, whatever.  It's based on one of my favorite Dunlop picks.  It's set up for 150 pixels wide, at 150 dpi.  It shouldn't matter as a vector image, though- make it any size you want.

I'd print a whole page of them and sort them after weeding to get the correct orientation of vertical, horizontal or diagonal, etc.... 
More plies is stiffer, fewer are softer(weaker too).

If you make some, send some pics!
Here's how I made mine: