Are Duck's group buys usually raffles? Sounds like the viper/eagle was only open for a short window, and I'm wondering what to expect for the LSv3 gb.
This is a board I've been eyeing for awhile, and I'm wondering if I should hold out on getting The Exent and pick this up instead....
The Viper/Eagle buy went like this (and subsequently pissed off a TON of people that were waiting for one of these):
28 November 2016, 22:48:09 -----> Group-buy thread approved and made public. 100 orders to be made available.
29 November 2016, 06:57:51 ----> He closed it down after 140 orders placed. I'm guessing those last 40 orders were deleted.
So yeah... months of anticipation and then it probably lasted about 5hrs in the middle of the night.
first build... and going with a Duck Kustom? Ballsy.
Curious why you would say that? From what i understand the kit has everything I need except switches and caps. Other than practicing my soldering what would make this more difficult than anything else?
The only riski see is that the investment is rather high if I screw up thepcb, but I have soldered before and have a few switch testers I can practice on.
The process of building a board is the same no matter what kit you get. I'm not trying to discourage you, i'm just saying that I personally chose to start with cheap and commonly sourced kits then work my way up to the more rare and expensive stuff.
My first board build came out pretty well. I was a little lucky, it was a good quality pcb, and i've also done a lot of soldering in the past for other stuff... and I'm meticulous. But i'm way better at it now. In fact i've gone back to this board and made some corrections to the work I did that are mostly just quality and cosmetic. I've seen some really terrible work done on some beautiful boards that are just expensive practice...
this piece of **** comes to mind that someone destroyed (I cant find his old photos of the 2 PCB soldering disasters that were with it).