Guitar Effect Pedals

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Western Diamondback Rattlesnake covered Pedal






Matching guitar with rattlesnake skin
with matching EMG pickups
Man this took a long time to do!!!



I like the tail stripes best!




Matching headstock

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"Aged" Oak enclosure





High Gain Distortion
 Soldano, Mesa, 5150 style circuit with Bass, Treble , Mic and Presence controls.
Antiqued Oak enclosure finished with dissolved 78rpm records and shellac
Sound samples on the sound clip page below
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Lovetone "Brown Source" clone
125 year sold chestnut wood floorbeam enclosure.
Sound samples on the sound clip page below





The "Skyripper" fuzz  in a quatersawn Oak enclosure
Sound samples on the sound clip page below

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Highly figured Bubinga and Sapele wood 5532 distortion and wah filter.
Listen to samples of  "5532 distortion" and manual "Deluxe wah" below.

John, I had typed a small novel describing my experience so far with the dist/filter pedal..
about three hours of use.  in lieu of the novel I'll just say that you did a fantastic job on
this project! This pedal will be with me till the end, I can't get it to sound shitty.
This smokes the keeley, the fulltone, the mesa v-twin, the analogman ts-9. none of those have the
character, bite, versatility and definition of this pedal. I loved the audio samples on your site,
but I knew I wanted something to make mine a different beast...
your decision to add the wah filter section was the blockbuster! that added infinite possibilities. 
    Just thru the twin reverb and the jc-120 split in stereo I'm amazed, not because I have this new pedal
and I'm in the honeymoon phase with it, but because I have been enjoying the shit out of it for 3 hours
and I can close the book on this area of my tone.
                         I think people would buy this pedal if they knew it existed.
This thing sounds better than the shit they sell for $300.00 and up,
including the $300.00 and up shit that belongs to me. I'm proud to own one...
I'm gonna take it to guitar center and test it out on some amps.

Fantastic!!   

-Joe Lamattina Chandler Arizona
 
                                                                         

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Clone of the
Maestro RM-1 Ring Modulator

70's vintage ring modulator with controls for:
High and Low frequency oscillator
Continuously Variable Frequency selection
Modulation amount/Effect amount
Input volume





Sound samples

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State Variable Filter


Snake skin covered version!

John, You are a sick sick man...or a genius, I haven't decided yet. Great job on the snake skin, looks killer! 
I was in Tucson, about 100 miles from home when I opened it, got home and hooked it up with the distortion pedal and then into the
solid state Roland jc-120 because I was too impatient to wait for the tubes to warm up, and I'm floored! right out of the box it screams.
It sound mean as hell. I love the woof you get when you move the pedal, I have a lot of good shit dude,
but I have never been this satisfied with something right out of the box as I have been with these two badass creations,
 they make me want to play.  this shit breathes.  You my friend are a bad mother f!@%er!  

 -Joe Lamattina AZ


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Controls for High pass, Band/Mid Pass, Low Pass and Resonance
Selectable Frequency sweep, manual or Foot controlled.

The unit above was made foot controllable but a more compact manual filter
pedal can be made into a smalled size box.


Sounds samples:
Recorded with a strat through the 5532 distortion into the Filter pedal and then into a Fender twin reverb.

Distorted Wah

Clean wah

Manual Filter sweeps

More Manual filter sweeps



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ABS Plastic Pedals


The above pedals are both octave fuzzes
With the Neck pickup and the tone rolled off you can get a very distinct Octave up.
Recorded with a 70's strat and a semi clean amp

Sound samples:

Octave up

Octave madness!



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Fender Blender clone



 This one is a moster!
A combonation of octave, fuzz, sustain and a very transparant thick tone.
The blend control lets you blend the fuzz with the straight clean guitar signal.
Depending on your picking strength, guitar volume and tone controls you can get a number of
pseudo ring modulations and light fuzz octave tones.  
Then crank it up and you can get very heavy and slugy rock tones a plenty.



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Colorsound Germanium
3 knob tone bender



Gets that vintage fuzz sound for sure.  
Smooth and Fuzzy

Sound Sample:

A couple different tones

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5532 Distortion



A simple good sounding distortion circuit.



Sound sample:

5532 Distortion


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2 band Parametric EQ





Fully parametric EQ with Frequency, Q and Cut/boost controls.
100+ year old Chestnut floorbeam salvaged wood.


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The "Brownie" manual wah



This is a manual wah to use in for solos or to get the static wah wah sound.
Just dial in the wah frequency and switch it in whenever you want the mid/high boost.
Listen to the sound samples below for the deluxe wah


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Deluxe Wah


Controls for frequency (foot controlled and manual mode) Resonance,  and wah sweep depth.
The Brownie and this wah are the same circuit

Sound samples:

Wah wah
Wah with oscillations



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Tweed covered dual effect







Custom reverb/vibrato amp switch made from Apple Wood




Delay pedal. Stained and burnt Ash




Custom multi-pedal enclosure
Antique chestnut
"I am very pleased with my bespoke wooden enclosures.
We discussed my exact requirements prior to starting
work. The workmanship, detail and finish was top
quality"

Jim McCabe -UK



Ring modulator  100+ year old American Chestnut 





Here are some of the
Wood pedal enclosures
I have for sale
or to incorporate
into custom pedals.






Email me



Wood pedal enclosures
Soundclips
  Guitar Amps
Guitar Effects Pedals
Recording your amp
Shielding Wood and Plastic boxes
Using Sheilded wire