Pedal Porn

1969 John Hornby Skewes "SHATTERBOX"

2008-08-12T11:32:00.000-07:00

Look at her. She so pretty sitting there all shinny in that lovely gold paintwork with that far out silk screening...lovely eh? Sounds great eh? One of the cult classics?...well yeah but she sounds fucking God awful!! And I mean AWFUL! Shittybox more like it or Shit-yer-box...thats kinda what you do when you hear the damn thing for the first time. I so so sooooo wanted this to be cool like Zonk Machine cool but nay its mid 70's badly biased Fuzz Face cool at best. The fuzz control set anywhere near maximum oscillates like a mental asylum and the treble boost is like running cheese wire across your eyes whilst franticly showering your face with vinegar. Its bad. Not good bad either. I could dig it if it was say like FY-2 bad buts it not. Basically shes the hot girl on the street that spits pee on you as walk by. Looks great but bad oh so bad.
...and no its not the magical Zonk Machine circuit its the Zonk II circuit and a JHS booster...a bloody horrid booster at that.

196?-197? ROSAC NU-FUZZ

2008-08-12T11:14:00.000-07:00

Loud, obnoxious, ready for the fight & comin' at ya with a broken bottle and a rusty claw hammer. Yaaa! NU-FUZZ is the shit! Awesome fuzz tones that do to your amplifier that a Tiger Tank would do to a Sinclair C5. Well cool build style too. Don't get me wrong I can't fucking stand goop! Awful shit and quite obviously the work of Satan. The resin encapsulated circuit in these things is a great idea. It must have increased production tenfold and in some ways it bullet proofs the internals of the pedal...unless of course you get a failed part in the resin. Ha har! But notice that the Electrolytic capacitor is NOT in the resin...clever Rosac.

1972 Park Fuzz Sound

2008-03-01T05:41:00.001-08:00

The Mistress.
More fuzz than on Chewbacca's ass! Personally I find this the coolest MKIV variant of them all...and its finished in Blue Hammerite too!! 10 cool points straight of the line. I think this particular unit was biased by Fuzz Jesus or some other non-mortal creature. Its responsive beyond mortal thought. When I use this blue wonder I run it engaged all the time....turn it off? Hell no! Just roll back the geetars volume control and bam! Its as smooth as Kojak.

1966 Vox Tone Bender Professional MKII

2008-03-01T05:09:00.001-08:00

Long live the Queen!
Its been a while. 6 years to be exact but I finally have a Vox MKII all of my very own. Yay!
So was it worth the wait? Hell yeah, this baby rolls with the best and has an aggressive streak a mile wide. Sounds like chewing leather whilst being hit round the back of the head with a handbag full of bricks.

1974 Guild Foxey Lady

2008-03-01T04:49:00.001-08:00

A friend of a friend purchased Geoff from a car boot sale for £5. The old lady selling it referred to it as 'some kind of radio'

1985 PRO CO "WHITE FACE" RAT

2007-02-26T12:17:00.000-08:00

Built to withstand a Nuclear War.
Yes yes I know its not a fuzz box but surely its the king of cool when it comes to old school distortions. You can't fuck with a Rat! Simple as that.

1975 Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi

2007-01-23T12:58:00.000-08:00

Smell my muff

1997 ZVEX FUZZ FACTORY

2007-01-22T03:47:00.000-08:00

It's a whole factory of fuzzy goodness

2007-01-22T03:46:00.000-08:00

2007-01-22T03:44:00.000-08:00

For when fuzzy is not enough

2007-01-22T03:41:00.000-08:00

Double figures...092

2007-01-22T03:39:00.000-08:00

Inside the factory

2007-01-22T03:31:00.000-08:00

1950's Germaniums...nice!

1965 Sola Sounds Ltd (Gary Hurst) Tone Bender MKI

2006-05-01T12:42:00.000-07:00

The Holy Grail of Fuzz Boxes!!!
Oh my!! the day that I never thought I'd see has occured!! I have in my hands a 1965 Gary Hurst made Sola Sound(s) Tone Bender MKI!! Steady now, I better sit down before I implode from a fuzz overdose.
I have searched high and low an all over the globe for one of these things. The story goes that only 50 were ever made so how many actually survive to this day is unclear, so I knew my chances were slim to none. Then, kaa-pow! right out of the blue I get an email asking if I'd be interested in purchasing such an item, hot dog!! would I ever! Well you know what they say, if you put mind out it will come to you. Maybe it's true.

Like with most of the old timers I seem to aqquire it has a intereting and colourful history behind it. To quote:

"I've had this pedal since circa 1972 when I started to play electric guitar in a jazz rock band (having previously concentrated on acoustic). A friend of mine, who was a 'roadie' for 'The Grounhogs' at the time, lent me a Burns Bison guitar (a black one with the 'Wild Dog' tone setting), and this pedal. I returned the guitar and bought a Les Paul Custom, but he gave me the pedal along with a Fuzz Face and Wah Wah. I've long since given the other pedals away, but somehow the Tone Bender survived in a box filled with old cables, guitar leads etc. So, I'm not sure about the provenance of the pedal, but it seems likely that it may have belonged to Tony McPhee at some stage"

Can this get any cooler!! maybe and only maybe this ye olden fuzzer could have been used by The Groundhogs! it's close enough for me, The Split LP by the Hogs is a true master piece.

Well, here we have it. The holiest of the holy....the Tone Bender MKI!! Mucho Gracias AP!

2006-05-01T12:40:00.000-07:00

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

2006-05-01T12:39:00.000-07:00

Golden Wonder

2006-05-01T12:37:00.000-07:00

The Fuzz Tank

2006-05-01T12:36:00.000-07:00

Wedge o' Fuzz

2006-05-01T12:35:00.000-07:00

Now that's build quality!

2006-05-01T12:34:00.000-07:00

Praise the Lord!! a gift from God.

2006-05-01T12:31:00.000-07:00

"Sola Sounds Ltd"

1967 Marshall Supa Fuzz

2006-01-22T12:11:00.000-08:00

The ugly truck is in town
Yet another eBay gem and a real prize find with only three hours to go. Cool story too, the guy who sold it me bought it new in 1967 to get some fat ass Cream/Hendrix fuzz tones, good call! It was used heavily until 1976 when it was retired for the distortion on a solid state H/H amp. It's been living in a loft until then!!! Crazy!! Unused for 30 years!

2006-01-22T12:06:00.000-08:00

Supa wedge

2006-01-22T12:05:00.000-08:00

Built like a tank

2006-01-22T12:04:00.000-08:00

Monster monster....

2006-01-22T12:03:00.000-08:00

The Mullards have landed

2006-01-22T11:59:00.000-08:00

A true work of art

Vox Distortion Booster

2006-01-22T11:57:00.001-08:00

Plug it in and let it rip!!

2006-01-22T11:57:00.000-08:00

Distortion Booster

2006-01-22T11:56:00.000-08:00

Little tiny box...a huge pile 'o Fun!!

2006-01-22T11:53:00.000-08:00

T'is a Tone Bender in disguise

Fuzzy Bits

2005-09-21T15:18:00.000-07:00

What the crap is Pedal porn?? Well no boobies here I'm afraid! Just vintage/old school fuzz and distortion pedals photographed so us sicko's can see them in all there perverted glory. Pedal Porn is the celebration of Guitar effects pedals made back in the day when they weren't just square blobs sat upon on your pedal board.

Works of Art I tell's thee!

Germanium Addict

2005-09-21T13:46:00.000-07:00

That's right; I am a fuzz pedal addict. To say I like old fuzz boxes is an understatement I think in Fuzz!!

I run a small business in South Yorkshire, England supplying fuzz addicts all over the globe with foot stompin' little delights to tame their fuzzy urges.

I'm not a hardcore pedal collector by any means, I don't vintage buy pedals to look at or put away in drawers I buy them to stomp on the damn things!

The 1966 John Hornby Skewes Zonk Machine

2005-09-21T06:45:00.001-07:00

The Zonk Machine..the coolest fuzz known to man.
I scored this sucker on eBay from a super cool dude in Canada. This has to be one of my all time favorite fuzzers it is sick and wrong! Obscene fuzz tones and an almost evil amount of volume at full tilt. If you ever find one of these rare beauties buy it!! it will cost an arm an a leg but it's worth every freakin' penny.

2005-09-21T06:44:00.000-07:00

They don't make em like that any more

2005-09-21T06:43:00.000-07:00

Big Bottom

2005-09-21T06:42:00.001-07:00

Can you say "Mullard"

2005-09-21T06:42:00.000-07:00

Zonk Gutz

1966 Vox Tone Bender Professional MKII

2005-09-21T06:41:00.000-07:00

Living legend!
Huge amounts of kudos to Davy F for the insanely generous loan of this museum piece! Does it get any better than this...No. Simple as that. Mullard OC81D's under the hood and this thing is beyond clean. You can even see the residue in the enclosure from the casting process.
If there is such a thing as liquid fuzz tone this is it!
Things (geeky fuzz nerds) dreams are made of.

2005-09-21T06:40:00.000-07:00

Lawdy Mama

2005-09-21T06:39:00.001-07:00

God Damn!!

2005-09-21T06:39:00.000-07:00

Thee Vox Tone Bender

2005-09-21T06:37:00.001-07:00

The Holy Grail

2005-09-21T06:37:00.000-07:00

Sweet Zombie Jesus this is the real deal!!

1966 Vox Tone Bender

2005-09-21T06:29:00.000-07:00

The George Bender

2005-09-21T06:28:00.000-07:00

1966

2005-09-21T06:27:00.000-07:00

The mighty OC76...yes at last

2005-09-21T06:26:00.000-07:00

The belly

2005-09-21T06:24:00.000-07:00

The shit!! 1966!!

1967-1968 Vox Tone Bender

2005-09-21T06:23:00.000-07:00

Yes I do like Hammmerite

2005-09-21T06:22:00.000-07:00

mmmm Nice!!

2005-09-21T06:21:00.001-07:00

What's inside?

2005-09-21T06:21:00.000-07:00

'68 gutz

1968-1969 Vox Tone Bender

2005-09-21T06:20:00.000-07:00

It's 1969 okay...

2005-09-21T06:19:00.000-07:00

SFT a go go

2005-09-21T06:18:00.000-07:00

Under and over

2005-09-21T06:17:00.000-07:00

Mo' Vox belly

1970-1971 Vox Tone Bender

2005-09-21T06:16:00.000-07:00

The Freak Vox..when you need Fuzz and a Radio in one

2005-09-21T06:15:00.000-07:00

Module overload!!

2005-09-21T06:14:00.000-07:00

It's too damn much

1969 Marshall Supa Fuzz

2005-09-21T06:13:00.000-07:00

The Supa Fuzz

2005-09-21T06:12:00.001-07:00

Raaargh!! look out!

2005-09-21T06:12:00.000-07:00

You can smell the old man inside

2005-09-21T06:11:00.000-07:00

Supa Gutz

1973 Dallas Music Industries Fuzz Face

2005-09-21T06:09:00.001-07:00

Fuzz Face

2005-09-21T06:09:00.000-07:00

Fuzzy head

2005-09-21T06:08:00.000-07:00

Silicon gutz

1972 Colorsound Overdriver

2005-09-21T06:06:00.000-07:00

The Overdriver

2005-09-21T06:05:00.001-07:00

When loud is not enough

2005-09-21T06:05:00.000-07:00

Ask doctor stupid...

1972 Carlsboro Fuzz

2005-09-21T05:57:00.001-07:00

The Blue Meanie

2005-09-21T05:57:00.000-07:00

Meanie-tron

2005-09-21T05:56:00.000-07:00

can you say..."Fuzz"

2005-09-21T05:55:00.000-07:00

Fuzz Gutz

197? Barnes & Mullins Fuzz Unit

2005-09-21T05:54:00.000-07:00

Jumbo Orange fuzzy fun

2005-09-21T05:53:00.000-07:00

Cake...who shit on the...

2005-09-21T05:52:00.000-07:00

Orange Belly

2005-09-21T05:51:00.000-07:00

Orange Monster