Ghordo fuzz (vanity fuzz face content)

Harry Klippton

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My buddy asked me to build him a fuzz face like 4 years ago based on a 30 second phone clip of a breadboard fuzz face. Fast forward to now when I finally got around to doing it.

My idea for the details of the finished project changed several times, resulting in this meticulously handmade pedal. I made the layout, I hand cut the fiberboard, drilled it and installed the eyelets, and spray painted the enclosure. I had initially planned on using some leftover sonic blue nitro I had from a guitar refinish, but it failed to adhere to the primer several times, and I switched to this nice rusto color instead. I think it's called seaside?

This has an internal bias trimmer and an external control in the same configuration as the sunface. My personal sunface nkt 🔴 is always my benchmark for how I tune any fuzz face I build.

The enclosure was supplied by my buddy. He had bought 3 of them 3 or 4 years ago or whatever, and he gave me all 3 of them, so I've got 2 more of these coming albeit with a different name and one with a different finish. He likes to have "prototypes" so that's effectively what this is

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This looks awesome, inside and outside! How did you do the nameplate? And do you happen to have gains/leakage and voltages?
The nameplate is just a PCB from JLC. Q1 is about 82 hfe and Q2 is 135. I didn't write down the leakage but both were typical for GT402bs. With the external bias knob at noon, Q2c is at -4.5v. I don't recall what Q1's collector voltage was, but I can check it later
 
I would totally step on that. I love that pristine white gutshot and the wrapped wire.

Is the battery held by anything?
 
I hope the recipient isn't like me and the first thing he does is not to shake it as hard as he can to hear the tone rattling around inside.
 
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