Hello fakeness my old friend.

alalalkasar

So there is a Chinese company making fake klons, like really fake with the lovely enclosures and all.
Honestly if they where a bit cheaper I would get one just for the enclosure.

steer

Looked at them. Although I like a bit of DIY now and then, I decided that for about the same price I would buy a used Soul food. 

thermionic

£200 for a Chinese fake? 

Pete24v

Ceriatone are also doing one, complete with goop. 

alalalkasar

The tone is in the goop!

juansolo

Would like the box to drop an old and utterly battered sunking into, just to fuck with people. But not for £200 I don't... Knackers to that.

ICBM

juansolo said:

Would like the box to drop an old and utterly battered sunking into, just to fuck with people. But not for £200 I don't... Knackers to that.

Boss DS-1 circuit?

Do you even get the electronics with this, or is it an "upgrade kit" for one of the ones with the non-accurate box? There's nothing in the pics that suggests you get anything more than the casing, knobs, pots, jacks, switch and LED. If so it's even more expensive…

The casing must be by far the most expensive part to make though - if it's a custom casting it could potentially cost more than the rest of it put together, at least until they start selling thousands of them.

Just think, the chap who designed the Klon could probably have avoided all this by licensing the production to a company of his choosing when he still had the chance and before the price of old ones went bonkers...

ToneControl

DIY?

http://www.madbeanpedals.com/projects/Sunking/Sunking2015.pdf  

ToneControl

I agree with ICBM - original designer won  the lottery, and threw it all away

alalalkasar

juansolo said:

Would like the box to drop an old and utterly battered sunking into, just to fuck with people. But not for £200 I don't... Knackers to that.

It would be lovely to put a DOD American metal in there and send it back in to the wilds for some tone hound to pick up and gush over the subtle manipulation of the Chrystal lattice.

professorben

ICBM said:

juansolo said:

Would like the box to drop an old and utterly battered sunking into, just to fuck with people. But not for £200 I don't... Knackers to that.

Boss DS-1 circuit?

Do you even get the electronics with this, or is it an "upgrade kit" for one of the ones with the non-accurate box? There's nothing in the pics that suggests you get anything more than the casing, knobs, pots, jacks, switch and LED. If so it's even more expensive…

The casing must be by far the most expensive part to make though - if it's a custom casting it could potentially cost more than the rest of it put together, at least until they start selling thousands of them.

Just think, the chap who designed the Klon could probably have avoided all this by licensing the production to a company of his choosing when he still had the chance and before the price of old ones went bonkers...

I read somewhere he still builds 1-2 a month and gives them to a 'lady friend' to help support her.

ICBM

professorben said:

I read somewhere he still builds 1-2 a month and gives them to a 'lady friend' to help support her.

The horsey ones, or the ones with the insufferably pompous quote on them?

It would still have probably been more profitable to licence the design and give some of the cash to the lady friend anyway… all that's happened now is that if these Chinese horsey ones are good, they'll kill the market for the other ones. Good luck trying to stop them, even if the horsey is a registered artwork/trademark.

juansolo

The soul food all but killed the market for them. £60 and it doesn't sound much different. Job done. He had 14 years or so of a monopoly on the thing and a trainload of hype along with it if he'd wanted to capitalise on it. He chose not to. That's all there is to it really.

DefaultM

I don't get if its a full pedal either. The picture and the top of the description implies it's something you have to make yourself, but then it says 'You're getting a hand-made, fully-tested pedal...'