So every now and then the wife gives me that look... you know the one: "really? your gonna build another one?" and I get to thinking I should sell off some pedals. I mean who really needs 4 overdrives, multiple delays, fuzzes, compressors etc..etct.. The word "Horder" comes to mind and visions of being on tv "buried alive by pedals".
So I break them out and start playing through them...........
Who am I kidding! I cant sell off any of them. I mean.. I built them!
I cant give birth (at least that's what the laws of nature say) so these are my babies dammit!!
And WHO doesn't need a Univox Superfuzz... yeah.. in your face mr. "your a horder" thought process!
So umm.... yeah... any of you guys/gals in this boat too?
Koko out!
:) :) :) :) :)
Wives! What do they know about what real men need? I've built 2 Tube Screamers and have purchased 4 other boards. 6 Tube Screamers! Why? Because I obviously need 6 Tube Screamers. If I didn't need 6 Tube Screamers I wouldn't have bought 6 boards!
Plus, my wife has no problem owning at least 6 blouses. I don't make her justify that. Why? Because I understand her needs. Hey babe, how about a little reciprocation!
Given that I own 62 guitars currently, I have no idea what you're talking about.....
Actually, I have no problems selling gear, nor does my wife give me any grief about it. That being said, I still try and get home before she does on days I know there are big boxes on the porch.
Holy cow! 62 guitars! I gotta see them :)
I will eventually own that many amps I'm sure.. I only have 4 now but for some reason I must own them all!!!
You guys need to not zero in on the wife aspect of this, I was poking fun at myself, she is actually very cool.
Quote from: angrykoko on October 10, 2013, 10:26:47 PM
Holy cow! 62 guitars! I gotta see them :)
I will eventually own that many amps I'm sure.. I only have 4 now but for some reason I must own them all!!!
You guys need to not zero in on the wife aspect of this, I was poking fun at myself, she is actually very cool.
Actually my wife is very cool too. She's happy as long as I'm building her boxes too! So far I've built her a compressor and a chorus. I'm in the process of boxing up an eq and rub-a-dub.
I bought mine a pink sparkle Les Paul
Quote from: billstein on October 10, 2013, 10:08:13 PM
Wives! What do they know about what real men need? I've built 2 Tube Screamers and have purchased 4 other boards. 6 Tube Screamers! Why? Because I obviously need 6 Tube Screamers. If I didn't need 6 Tube Screamers I wouldn't have bought 6 boards!
Plus, my wife has no problem owning at least 6 blouses. I don't make her justify that. Why? Because I understand her needs. Hey babe, how about a little reciprocation!
Six Tube Screamers? Bill, you might have a problem. Are they at least different Tube Screamers??
I was gonna sneak in a tele a few days ago I purchased, but I couldn't do it 8). I told her, but she's cool with most music gear. I was already into guitar stuff well before we got hitched. She married into it ;D
Josh
my wife could care less, second marriages are awesome!! We're both adults and treat each other as such. That beind said, who doesn't need 6 tube screamers, or in my case phasers?
esplainin gear to spouses can be tricky. My wife is generally fine if I net a 0 out of it somehow. Sell a pedal, trade some here, use a little cash to buy something when I made a little cash on the side.
Truthfully, I have way more guitar gear than I should, and I'm constantly trying to get rid of stuff in order to 'step up' as it were.
Now I'm looking into an upgrade on a single cut double humbucker type. What I really want is one of those new PRS S2 Starla guitars, the ones with the Bigsby on it. Really, really want one. Can I afford one? No. Need to sell 8-10 pedals before I can I think. And saving after 8-10 sales... that's tough. That money usually goes towards other things...
Jacob
I know EXACTLY what you mean... I've been thinking lately I need to start flicking some of the pedals I can't or don't use. But I can't bring myself to actually put any up for sale. (The Dr Boogie, for example... it's far more gain than I can handle, and I know someone who's interested, buuuuut... it was my first high gain build!)
Quote from: alanp on October 11, 2013, 04:23:48 AM
I know EXACTLY what you mean... I've been thinking lately I need to start flicking some of the pedals I can't or don't use. But I can't bring myself to actually put any up for sale. (The Dr Boogie, for example... it's far more gain than I can handle, and I know someone who's interested, buuuuut... it was my first high gain build!)
yep! that's exactly what I'm talking about. I have 2 compressors that I NEVER use... I just don't understand them or why I'd ever want to use one.. but cant seem to get rid them.
As far as the multiplicity thing... pedalwise I *desire* delays, they are sexy to me (my next target is that catlinbread echoplex thing). I have many overdrives out of curiosity (what does this one sound like compared to that one kind of thing).. and fuzz... I just love fuzz.
Yep; I've got plenty of pedals I never use, but would never sell.
I think I have inherited my Dad's hoarding problem ;D.
The Mrs usually just leaves me to it with music gear. She's not really that interested, and I like it that way; I think its good to have separate interests and have time to do our own things.
It's like when I go shopping with her; we go our separate ways and meet up later. I can never understand when you see blokes stood outside shops looking annoyed waiting for the Mr's; do your own thing or leave her to it!
Anyway... Rant over... ;)
Hm, my girl gives me no headaches over this, luckily. She's cool because she can see how happy I am. I get incredibly excited over gear and I think she's really pleased to see me content. Although...my honeymoon period with gear is getting kinda shorter and shorter, so I tend to want other stuff, or that was the case for some time, now I am on a decline of wanting luckily...
The blouse thing really resonated with me. I mean man, for a price of a very decent pedal, she buys a blouse/pants/shorts/blazer/hat/whatever just so she could mix it with other clothes in perfecting her style [which I assure you involves a lot of different stuff at the same time, she's quite the dresser...] anyway, she buys this, and then once in a blue moon she uses it and wears it. Not to mention expensive boots, shoes and whatnot.
Whereas when I buy a guitar, a pedal, or whatever it makes me happy every day, for several hours in a day, or even just looking at it occasionally standing on a guitar stand. I mean it's such a higher level of usability if you will. I use my guitar to make me happy even if I am not holding it in my arms. Whereas I don't care about her shoes locked in a closet that will see the ball once every couple of months.
And they buy as impulsively as we do, there's no denying that.
Quote from: das234 on October 11, 2013, 01:39:33 AM
Quote from: billstein on October 10, 2013, 10:08:13 PM
Wives! What do they know about what real men need? I've built 2 Tube Screamers and have purchased 4 other boards. 6 Tube Screamers! Why? Because I obviously need 6 Tube Screamers. If I didn't need 6 Tube Screamers I wouldn't have bought 6 boards!
Plus, my wife has no problem owning at least 6 blouses. I don't make her justify that. Why? Because I understand her needs. Hey babe, how about a little reciprocation!
Six Tube Screamers? Bill, you might have a problem. Are they at least different Tube Screamers??
I do have a problem! For some reason I love Tube Screamers. To me they are the ultimate pedal and layer so well with other pedals or with each other. I do plan on building out the others with different combinations for clipping and different IC's.
But back to the point. Yes, I do have a problem.
I try to keep my addiction as hidden away as possible in my man cave.
Once I started having pedals just laying around everywhere and the wife started getting a bit aggravated just because I had junk laying around I wasn't using. I had to devise a way to satisfyingly get rid of stuff.
I have a shoe cubby hole cabinet with 30 little cubby cubes.
Each cube can hold one pedal. If it's not on my board, it has to be in a cube.
Once all the cubes are filled I either sell or give pedals away. I don't like to sell them because my confidence in quality is lacking. But I'll just send them to random people if I don't feel like selling. I sent one to Jeff Kay for his teenage son guitar player. (thewvsr.com)
I'm mailing one to Hannah Hart this weekend, just because I think that would be a strange thing to do. And strange is funny.
I'll send them to old band mates and people I know that might want to expand their sonic capabilities but can't afford it.
I only WISH I had some of the problems that you guys have listed....
My problem seems to be that I cannot GET RID of some of my pedals! :o
At least, not even for a close-to-reasonable price. Its either "I dont want it!" or its "I'll buy it for 1/2 the cost of the parts!" ::)
Some of the pedals I have built are pretty good clones of the real deals (which are high dollar items even second hand) and I have tried to sell for much less but alas..... every time I try I get the "Sorry bro.... I didn't think it would be THAT much."
Well.... they ain't free my friend!
Sorry.... was I ranting? ::)
Quote from: icecycle66 on October 11, 2013, 05:42:27 PM
I try to keep my addiction as hidden away as possible in my man cave.
Once I started having pedals just laying around everywhere and the wife started getting a bit aggravated just because I had junk laying around I wasn't using. I had to devise a way to satisfyingly get rid of stuff.
I have a shoe cubby hole cabinet with 30 little cubby cubes.
Each cube can hold one pedal. If it's not on my board, it has to be in a cube.
Once all the cubes are filled I either sell or give pedals away. I don't like to sell them because my confidence in quality is lacking. But I'll just send them to random people if I don't feel like selling. I sent one to Jeff Kay for his teenage son guitar player. (thewvsr.com)
I'm mailing one to Hannah Hart this weekend, just because I think that would be a strange thing to do. And strange is funny.
I'll send them to old band mates and people I know that might want to expand their sonic capabilities but can't afford it.
This makes me smile. I like your approach. And isn't giving away more satisfying than selling anyway? And no discussions about money.
I build them and sell them. Everything I build is full of love, and most of the time I am building to a customer's spec which is really fun. When I build something for my board it almost always gets sold. One exception I have is a 1776 Rubadub that had a freakout issue where it would go nutzo randomly with loud white noise. This was due to using 1uf Tant's instead of Electro's, and has now been remedied. It resides in a former one knob fuzz enclosure now labeled, "Unreliable Reverb" and will never leave my board. I sold my first Aquaboy to a guy not too far away a few months back and have regretted that one a lot after the fact, but I am poised to build a new one next week with MN3008's instead of V3205's, and I think I'll be hanging onto it. Dirt pedals always come and go. With my Supro amp I have never found just the right one, though it does like some low gain OD's, but I continue to cycle through them to find the right match. Fuzzes come and go too. I just sold the last Tonebender MKII I made which was super nuts, good thing I was able to get one more PCB from Jon (Stomptown) and maybe the next will be a keeper. Maybe.
I have a hard time selling most of them as I put so much time and effort into each one. Usually, if I sell it, it has been built at least twice and I have one of them. :-)
I can totally relate! I have to sell stuff right now to get by while I'm out if work and it us pretty hard to let go of my babies! Oh, and the wife and u have had a good laugh over the idea that one day we will be buried alive in guitar pedals!
I have a wife that is into crafts and knows the importance of having parts/things on hand to build and she also knows the "need" to keep things we have built. She/we also understand that you never know when you will feel like building, painting, knitting etc.. so its good to have the things needed on hand so you dont have to wait. I have a bunch of pedals I don't use on the regular but nothing beats the feeling of hearing a lick and being able to set up a small board to nail that sound. Also, the never ending, changing pedal board that keeps me creatively thinking of new things. I too have problems selling stuff since I am not 100% confident with my work and feel I need to get a few things sorted before I can accept good money for something. I have one friend that I love to build for and I love to see my pedals on his board. Its very rewarding.