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PedalBoard help pleeze....carpet it or screw em down??

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 11:54 pm
by JohnnyTheBoy
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So i've just recently scored this Warwick Pedalboard offa evilbay for a £1 with £10 postage...
Bloody bargain if you ask me...but i've gotta cover the board with something for me pedals to stick to..
So i wanna know whats best to use..what comes recommended...

I have some heavyduty hook velcro for the bottom of me pedals, but am wondering if this will stick to
this kinda thing...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWAX:IT

Or!...should i screw each pedal down?...
Please divulge your board secrets :lol:

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 11:58 pm
by h8mtv

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:05 am
by JohnnyTheBoy
Cheers for that old lad...
I shall have to try n track sum down in blighty...

hmmm this baby is 30" x 14" so that stuff would do it a treat...and with free hooky hook side..
Coolio... 8)

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:35 am
by wwrrss
I do bout 6 different bands all with different boards so I'm a fan of thick carpet cause it stops them moving about as much. But not at all. But it's easy to swap stuff round.

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:56 am
by johnnyseven
I prefer to screw my pedals down. You can buy pedal fixings from Johnny Shredfreak but the wood will need to be of a certain thickness or the screws will poke out the other side.

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:27 am
by UlricvonCatalyst
I made my own pedal board with a bit of plywood covered with an offcut of carpet I got free from a local carpet shop, bound with gaffa tape.

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:36 pm
by JohnnyTheBoy
johnnyseven wrote:I prefer to screw my pedals down. You can buy pedal fixings from Johnny Shredfreak but the wood will need to be of a certain thickness or the screws will poke out the other side.
Was it someone on ss who'd used chain links from a bike chain instead of the shredfreak ones?..I can get them from work ;-)

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:41 pm
by lorez
i've heard a few people go for the links from JSF as J7 mentions and others mention the bike chains which is a similar attachment. I have some old carpet off cut on mine at the moment

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:14 pm
by JohnnyTheBoy
Cheers for advice all!.. Am gonna punt for a 2ft Bit of that acoustic carpet first and see how I get on!
It'll only weigh in at a fiver so I can live with that if it don't work out!..then maybe split a chain or two :wink: