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| 9/25/11 FuzzHugger Arc Flash - back in stock! The Arc Flash is back in stock! Available only at Prymaxe Vintage, in low quantities. This is the only batch with this finish! Iridescent Blue and Peacock Green. Check them at now @ FH's Dealer In Stock page! >>> |
| 9/20/11 FuzzHugger(fx) Now At Pro Guitar Shop! The title says it all! Check out the full line-up, in stock now! |
| 10/5/11 Smallsound/Bigsound - back in stock! Special Team Awesome Fuzzmachines, dual-footswitch Team Awesome Fuzzmachines, and F**k Overdrives (standard and special graphic!) in stock! |
| 10/7/11 FuzzHugger Effects Update! New hand-painted AB-Synths in stock! Laura Bennett! Matt Edwards! FuzzHugger! Other exclamations! Check them at now @ FuzzHugger's In Stock page! >>> Also! • AB-Synth Dlx. is sold out at PGS. More headed there soon! • More Algal Blooms headed to PGS! • New painted AB-Synths headed to Prymaxe! |
| Hand-Painted by Laura Bennett |
| Hand-Painted by Matt Edwards |
| 10/9/11 A Word (Many Words) on Price Increases. In the last three years, I've raised prices on the Algal Bloom and AB-Synth $5-10 total. I've been told my prices are laughably low...I'm very proud of that. But FuzzHugger(fx) can't keep going without a real price raise in 2012. I personally build every pedal, start to finish. With such low prices, I need to make a lot of pedals--and quickly!--to keep going. With such a hands-on, detail-focused process, I don't build quickly. I'm not cranking out pedals. There's a waitlist, and it's getting longer. Each FuzzHugger pedal is built one at a time, in a very hands-on process. The only thing I don't do much of myself anymore is drilling, which is still done in house. (Though I personally punch all pilot holes before drilling.) After that, I hand wash each pedal. If it's not painted by Laura Bennett or Pat Corrigan, I then hand finish every pedal. I hand cut all graphics, hand-press each print, and personally paint each pedal. Most painted pedals receive 4-6 separate coats of fixer and paint. I use the highest quality parts available. Period. Guys selling pedals for twice what FuzzHugger(fx) sells for? Same sources, same quality parts. Our PCBs are professionally printed, lead-free, and expensive. No sticker paper or printer paper labels for graphics--the graphics (a processed developed by FuzzHugger!) are full color, scratch, chip, and water resistant. It's a time-consuming process to apply them. And those gem button LEDs cost 4x what standard LEDs cost. (Not complaining--they're worth it!) Every pedal is then hand assembled, and wired, by me. They are then tested (jammed on!), wrapped, boxed, and shipped...by me. Am I crazy? It is a grueling, hands-on, detail-oriented process building just one pedal start to finish. (Aside: There are pedalbuilders with small factories, kicking their feet back while employees assemble and solder pedals...using predrilled enclosures, that arrive pre-powder-coated and/or pre-screen-printed, sometimes with machine-populated PCBs...and they call their pedals hand-built...shipping 1,000 pedals a month, and still pushing the idea that they're small builder. There are degrees of hand-built, and degrees of small builder.) I'm not writing this to defend myself for the coming price increase...it's partly a heads up, so people can grab FuzzHugger now before the price increase...and mainly to let people in on the secret, and the level of hands-on they're getting when they buy a FuzzHugger(fx) pedal. Thank you all so much for your interest and support. You mean the world to me. Yours, Tom Dalton |
| 10/12/11 New AB-Synths at Prymaxe (in NJ)! A small batch of AB-Synths just landed at Prymaxe Vintage in NJ! Check them out now! >>> |
| SALE: $30 OFF! Laura Bennett Hand-Painted FuzzHugger Effects |