Holy Moly I've spent close to 3k on pedal stuff this year...

swelchy

swelchy

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I'm tallying up all my receipts on a spreadsheet because I'm eventually going to get tax documents for reverb this year for being a seller.... Put all my stuff from pedalpcb, tayda, stompbox parts and love my switches on a sheet to see what I've spent in 2022.... Turns out i'm fairly close to breaking even on this little hobby.... right now I'm $35 in the hole verses what I've sold... Not too shabby.. I've given away a ton of pedals + I still have about a dozen pcb's to populate. I told myself I'f I'm not totally in love with a pedal i'll sell them.... So far the only thing that stays on my board is a kliche'.... Haven't built anything else that i'm head over heela with except the Arachnid I built with all reverbs... I need to build another.. One of my friends literally stole it off my board and sent me $100 on venmo for it..lol.. He wasnt taking no for an answer... but since then pedalpcb has been out of the custom eeprom chips so I cant build one to replace the one on my board.
 
Totally a confession thread lol.

I feel lucky, since day one I’ve spreadsheet’d every thing and over two years the total is just above 3,600.

Luckily, with the help of a few old commercial pedals and a handful of builds for friends and reverb I’ve managed to break even so far.

But now that my friends have everything they want and im into tube based builds I have a feeling I won’t be breaking even much longer… and that doesn’t doesn’t count the two guitars I’ve picked up since diving down this rabbit hole… GAS is expensive. But I’m sure there are much worse things to spend money on.
 
I don’t spend nearly as much as some on pedal stuff, seemingly. Still, I worry from time to time. Part of the reason I got into building pedals was because I could never justify spending $250 on a pedal, only to have it never leave my house. If I could build that same pedal for $50…that makes way more sense to me. Of course, 50 builds at $50 adds up…

My wife says that it evens out: yea, I may not be saving any money, but if I just buy the pedal, I lose out on the knowledge gained from building it, on tue enjoyment of building the pedal. It’s about the experience, not the final product. Sometimes art can’t be measured in dollars and sense…
 
Coda said:
I don’t spend nearly as much as some on pedal stuff, seemingly. Still, I worry from time to time. Part of the reason I got into building pedals was because I could never justify spending $250 on a pedal, only to have it never leave my house. If I could build that same pedal for $50…that makes way more sense to me. Of course, 50 builds at $50 adds up…

My wife says that it evens out: yea, I may not be saving any money, but if I just buy the pedal, I lose out on the knowledge gained from building it, on tue enjoyment of building the pedal. It’s about the experience, not the final product. Sometimes art can’t be measured in dollars and sense…
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This.

I would never tally up what I spend on pedals and paint and cameras and what not because this is all I do. I work, parent, husband and pedal stuff.

To me its the cost of living and staying mentally sane in this insane world.

Also, how the hell you all selling pedals and making money?!? I gotta thin this herd, i am out of shelf space!
 
I’m not worried about how much I’ve spent on pedals. I’ve spent way more on guitars this year. 🤣🤣 I can’t sell pedals, I just end up wishing I hadn’t and build another one. I have stopped boxing everything, finally. If I don’t care for it, I put it in a drawer and rob it for parts or eventually find a use for it and box it up.
 
jjjimi84 said:
This.

I would never tally up what I spend on pedals and paint and cameras and what not because this is all I do. I work, parent, husband and pedal stuff.

To me its the cost of living and staying mentally sane in this insane world.

Also, how the hell you all selling pedals and making money?!? I gotta thin this herd, i am out of shelf space!
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Your pedals truly are works of art
 
ok confession time.:coffee:

In this moment i'm at 600€ for the 2022, i think i will end this year at maybe 700/800€ for the pedals..... (if we consider the guitars, I bought a 2008 fender for € 950, some pickups € 200 and I refurbished an old samick strato (my first guitar) for about € 100).
tot 1850 for now 😵‍💫

the good intentions for 2023 are to play more and return to live gigs 💪
 
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