Guitar Related Ramblings

I've had a couple of questions about these recently, and out of curiosity I decided to take a closer look.  In 2024, Sola Sound released...

I was a little surprised when someone requested this, as I assumed that I would have already done it given my love of vintage size vero and ...

The El Diablo...   A Dave Main creation, part Sola Sound MK1.5 Tone Bender / part Vox Tone Bender - hence the MK1.75 moniker.  And why El Di...

Someone mentioned this in the comments recently (thank you ClassicFuzz), so I thought I'd have a look at the photos on Reverb.   The Gol...

I purchased a sheet of phenolic board locally to make some MKI boards, as I didn't want to pay $25 postage on a $3 board from the USA (p...

This is one of the more recent Sola Sound MK1.5 Tone Benders built by David Main.   MK1.5 TONE BENDER:  THE DIRTY HIPPIE MOD - OC75 ONLY Thi...

A bit of a classic - the MK1.5 Tone Bender.  Some great phots and background information here on Fuzzboxes.org  and some great video demos b...

Nice bit of MKII history on fuzzboxes.org    The MKII might be the most popular of the Tone Benders, although personally I'm split betwe...

This is a slightly different hybrid MKII than I have previously seen - this is a Sola Sound MKII built by D*A*M, referred to as the Black Fi...

I'm sure there are more than a few layouts out there for the Tone Bender MKI on tag board - I'm sure a couple more will not hurt.   ...

SOLA SOUND TONE BENDER MKIV - TAG BOARD LAYOUT

 

This hybrid Tone Bender MKII is a more budget conscious offering from Sola Sound (Macari's) via David Main of D*A*M and it uses NPN tran...

Not strictly my layout, as this is a copy of the original Sola Sound Tone Bender MKII board.   This is a little different to most MKII schem...

I just realised that I had not posted a Sola Sound Tone Bender MKII layout...  I did the Marshall Supa Fuzz earlier, which is kind of same ...

The mysterious Sola Sound MK1.5 Tone Bender, which is pretty much a Fuzz Face, or a Fuzz Face is a MK1.5 Tone Bender - either way... just do...

Here's a hybrid Sola Sound Tone Bender MKII using a single germanium transistor at the front, and 2 x silicon at the back - all NPN so i...

A slightly smaller point to point layout for the Sola Sound Tone Bender MKIV than the other in my post (for bigger mojo parts).   Of course ...