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dubkitty wrote:I've been needing a Tone Bender for awhile now...the EQD one i have has so much gain that i literally have to set the volume knob within the first 3mm of the range. so i found a nice clean build on Reverb for. $65 and snapped it right up.

https://reverb.com/item/35825684-tone-b ... t=35825684

Glenouille wrote:

cosmicevan wrote: I think this is like a proto or a very early version. This one is numbered 00 and I got it from someone who was clearing out a collection of some relatively old pedals.

I think it's maybe from around 2015-2016. I did not pay much attention to all this for a good while so could be very wrong too! (I was buying too much gear, too quickly so I distanced myself from forums for a few years)

From what I remember the first picture of this pedal Nick (the man behind Dunwich) ever shared here was in a raw 1590DD enclosure. He took the pic with the pedal sitting on his thigh, that was in June or July 2012. I remember it well, the thing was massive, it was dwarfing his leg (that's what she said...)

He went on to build one for Ryan@Dr Sci. around Oct. 2012 and then maybe another 1 or 2 for some other folk before he did small runs of his pedals. All these runs were built by Magic, while Nick was concentrating on amps, custom stuff, and R&D. The runs started in 2013 with the Wizard Fuzz (large enclosure similar to his early pic from 2012 but white) and the Cthulhu Fuzz (one knobber in a white 1590BB enclosure). That's when I got my WF.

Through time, the size of the Wizard Fuzz shrunk. It looks like every modification of the circuit to make if fit within a smaller enclosure led to a prototype (#000). You have the 1590BB one. In this one, the circuit was identical to the 1590DD model, but subsequent versions were slightly different.

Nick could not fit the 12 position rotary switch in smaller enclosures and some runs of smaller size pedals have a 6 position switch instead. When he eventually managed to fit the circuit in a 125B enclosure (between 2017 and Dec. 2019 when he stopped Dunwich), the rotary switch was replaced with a continuous pot (no positions anymore), at that point he also added a Blend.
Aesthetically, the wizard face was dropped went he built the pedal in anything smaller than the 1590BB size and was replaced with a wizard on a horse on the edge of a cliff.

The proto (#000) of the 125B size ones was on Reverb in Nov. last year:


Not that all this matters really, just a trip down memory lane... I like this builder, he was posting a lot here and had a lot of cool ideas!

cosmicevan wrote:Here! 72 Reissue MIM Telecaster Thinline!!!