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18/05/2025

HALF PRICE!

To make room for my next run, you can pick up a Ripples Fuzz Pedal for £40.

£40! For a handwired, hand built, and extremely unique looking and sounding pedal? Damn!

13/05/2025

For sale, silly cheap!

Orange OR15 for £250!

Great little amp, but don't let it's size fool you, this'll easily handle gigging.
Due to the lower wattage, it breaks up sooner and you get that tube warmth at reasonable volumes. Whack it up from 7-15w and you'll have plenty of clean headroom too.
As it's only got a few tubes its a nice cheap amp to revalve too (but these have plenty of life left in them).
Great sounding amp, and it's what the Jim Root Terror is based on.
I can include a 1x12 Harley Benton cab fitted with a Celestion V30 with this for an extra £50.

Collection/local delivery at cost from Stockport.
No offers or trades at this point thank you.

26/03/2025

How versatile can a single pickup guitar be? The answer is - very!
This thing is SPECCED.
This is a Dan Armstrong copy that's come to me for a full rewire and a couple of other mods.

Ready for the feature list?
- DIMARZIO super distortion
- 3 way switch
- Position 1 tone bypass; this sends the signal through the volume pot and a cap, to the output. This gives you an astoundingly convincing neck pickup sound.
- Position 2 standard volume and tone; works the same as a telecaster.
- Position 3 volume bypass; bypasses most of the volume control, so if in Position 2 you're rolling off a bit for lower output, position 3 will give you that higher output.

But there's more!

- The tone pot is a coil tap. This thing can QUACK.
- The volume pot is a killswitch, so you can Buckethead or Tom Morello this thing to your hearts content.

Pots are CTS and Shadow, cap is orange drop.

18/03/2025

Love how these are coming out. There's no filter here, this is how they actually look.

Ready to ship from Thursday.
£85 +P&P for a boutique handmade fuzz that'll melt faces.
Sound bites coming at the end of this week, but you'll have to deal with my atrocious playing.

Get in touch if you fancy one.

06/03/2025

What do we do when the right wiring diagram doesn't exist?

Draw on envelopes!

This is for a single pickup monster, not only is it gonna have the Dan Armstrong volume/tone bypass 3 way switch, it's also going to have a coil tapped Super distortion in there, as well as a Shadow killpot.

Could this be the most versatile single pickup guitar that has ever guitarred? Possibly not, but it's the most versatile I've worked on!

Once it's wired up I'll post some pictures, got some lovely braided wires to go in here.

If you want your guitar modifying, get in touch! I do all sorts. As exemplified by the above. I can also do other things. Just ask, I love a natter.

04/03/2025

Big news!

I'm privileged to be working with on bringing a range of guitar based courses to life!
In short, you'll be able to come by the workshop to learn a range of skills, whether that's building a pedal, learning guitar maintenance or building a guitar from scratch, all under expert supervision.

We've set up a Crowdfunder (this is happening whether the goal is reached or not) - it offers you the opportunity to put your deposit down for courses, and in return you'll receive a discounted course. This offer will only be happening through our crowdfunder (link in comments and bio, or message me!).

04/03/2025

I'm happy to say that I'm working with Manchester Guitar and Bass Building Academy to bring instrument building and maintenance courses to life.

We'll cover everything from basic guitar maintenance, pedal building, and to full on custom builds, and everything in between!

We're currently moving to a new workshop in South Manchester so have set up a Crowdfunder to get us on the move quicker. The Crowdfunder offers discounted deposits for the courses that we'll run, so if it's something that sounds good to you now is the time to get booked in.

Likes and shares are also really helpful for us, as we're pushing this everywhere (even Craig Charles is mucking in).

https://www.facebook.com/GuitarBassBuild

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/guitar-bass-build

Guitar Bass Build Grand Re-Opening in 2025
Brand new workshop & new range of courses available soon.
Guitar Maintenance and Pedal Building Courses
A Range of Guitar Building Courses for you to enjoy
In our new workshop coming soon!

28/02/2025

Aww look at that, a build out in the wild!
This one was a surprise for my good friend and bandmate of
Yeah, I put his face on it.
Did he ask me to?
No.

But he's very happy with how it sounds; sonically, this is the same as the run I'll be producing. I'll have 3 ready for shipping by mid March, sound clips and photos to follow. It's got a couple of features that I won't reveal just yet.

It's a super meaty fuzz. The output is insanely high. You cannot dime this pedal because the output is so insanely high.

Anyway, if you want custom pedals, custom enclosures, or just some funky laser etched design, let me know.

22/02/2025

Small and mighty! Persil? Noooo, power!
This is a little something I've built for myself. This little amplifier head puts out somewhere between a whopping 1/4watt and a ridiculous 1/2watt of power!

Don't be mistaken by it's small size and seemingly meagre output, this will happily power a 4x12 cab. I've just had it through a 16ohm 2x12 and it's more than loud enough for home practice. Gets nice and distorted too when you want it to. Surprisingly responsive to dynamics as well.

Oh yeah, and it can do all this off a standard 9v battery. Or pedal power supply.

Enclosure designed and 3D printed by myself, control panels laser etched by myself, circuit (not designed but) put together by myself.

Fun little project!

17/02/2025

Board number 1 ready for its enclosure and offboard wiring.
Big parts delivery came today, so I'll be finishing these off and revealing the pedal in the near future.

13/02/2025

Is Throwback Thursday still a thing? Am I just old now? I don't know anymore.

Here's a Fuzz Factory I put together 12ish years ago. In a takeaway tub. Makes me cringe to look at, but this is where I started! Such a lot of fun.

I'm planning a Livestream of a little build I'll be doing soon, if you want to see how I prototype and build some of my gear, check it out. Say hi. Ask questions.