) So considering the possibility of it being a little topical thought I'd give us another looksee at some of my beloved blue fuzzsters.I have been totally intrigued / absorbed by the whole Park story and have sent something like twenty five years (maybe more - says he in a decrepit white haired kind of way) tracking down nice old examples of the gear. I always thought that the white knobbed JTM45 Park heads from the mid to late 60's were the epitome of tonefulness but I also thought that the blue fuzzes were jusrt about "as good as it gets" - for all of my years playing there have always been two pedals that were invariably at my feet - one would be the Colorsound Wah Fuzz Swell in its various guises but the other would most definitely be the simple old blue Park FuzzSound - often with a proper OC44 Ragemaster in tow (thanks for finding me my current one all those years back Jason!) - A quick glance at my postings here (and particularly on the old site) ought to show that I am pretty sold out on my gear and apart from Dennis I can probably claim to have had the greatest exposure to the older fuzzy stuff - of our currently active membership. Despite having access to pedals that many can only dream about (bear in mind these things were no way so scarce back in the eighties - or costly!!) I really have to say that the venerable old blue pedals are simply the best - same as their amps - Jim Marshall really made sure that throughout the earliest days of the Park brand (As distinctly opposed to the recent reintroduction of the marque with their cheap far east range of kiddie amps) sounded at the very least as good as and in my opinion (and that of many more folks with better ears than me) noticeably better than the equivalent Marshal product. It is said that he deliberately sent his Park gear out in a "hotter" state of tune than the then American owned and controlled Marshall range. I certainly would not disagree!!
Anyway - I plan on adding a whole load of Park Porn here - pulling together what has been dotted about on a whole lot of other threads - and will kick it off with a few family groupings :
The one on the left has two copper jackets and one silver can - all the pots are date coded D 0 which I read as from the last quarter of 1970 probably pushing the manufactured date of the pedal itself into early 1971 - The other (right hand one) has three silver cans - unmarked as are those in the other pedal similarly the copper jackets (which I have always taken to be the same Germanium transistors just in a different protective casing) the pots in that one are date stamped 2 3 which I take to be from Feb 1973 although could be the other way round - i.e March '72 - I alway believed that where there is an alphanumeric code i.e D 0 or B 4 that the letter (which is almost always A,B,C or D) denotes the quarter of component manufacture as with mustard mullard caps (coincidentally!) and the number the last of the decade made - (so those 2 examples would be last quarter of 70 or 2nd quarter of 74) - I have seen the other purely numeric type of codes with numbers that appear to be the other way round (which is why I said that the second pedal might have been 72 or 73) or at least it has appeared so from other date coded components in the pedal - but a digression !! I might well be wrong but have spent a lot of time looking at a whole lot of components in both pedals and amps!! From what I have seen with a lot od these Sola type / made pedals, the components were not bought in huge batches and the codes are generally within 3 - 6 months of the pedal date---- What an anorak - Wasted Youth!
(very wasted much of the time! 
)Graham
still my favorite 
