I've been salivating over photos of this exact pedal for almost 9(!!) years, when it was first revealed as part of a larger collection of vintage effects, over on
Bart's forum. The owner was selling much (if not all) of this stuff, and as I recall, a few bits ended up with various forumites here. For whatever reason, they held onto this Fuzz Face for a while longer, and eventually dumped it on eBay. Tl;dr is that it went into the collection of a friend-of-a-friend, and when the time came for that guy to start selling vintage pedals, if it wasn't for the kind heads-up from the ever-awesome Jreeves47, then I wouldn't have had first dibs.
There's nothing particularly remarkable about the circuitry or the t0anz of this one. What's notable, however, is that this is the rarest colour scheme of all of the 'first generation' Fuzz Faces (i.e. the pre-Arbiter, 'first enclosure' type). Even rarer than the illustrious 'red n' black' model, is this 'red with white thick-logo lettering' model (not to be confused with the 'red with white thin-logo in second enclosure type' pedals)
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Since the very first one that resident Fuzz Face spotter Electric Warrior and I saw surface, back in 2012, I'm aware (thus far) of a total of only four surviving. (Of course, there might be even rarer cosmetic variations out there that have yet to be discovered...)
Now, an old fuzz pedal has to be particularly horrible for me to consider cleaning it, but unfortunately this one has met that threshold. It absolutely stinks of pot, and there are even infinitesimal pot particles sitting on the PCB, and tangled up in the cat(?!) hair around the spaghetti
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