Building an SLO guitar overdrive pedal - Part 1

I love building things, and I love playing instruments. I’ve recently been getting more into guitar and guitar pedals, and I now have a small number of them. A friend of mine loaned me his DIY SLO pedal based on PedalPCB’s Lead Solder Overdrive PCB and I liked it that I decided to build my own. The first thing I needed to do was to order all the parts. I grabbed the build instructions from…