potential bootleg "mid 70s" Elk Fuzz Sustainars

[jext-telez]

Amen Kit.

[Genghis Kanye]

I made haikus from the messages.

Green calls it Maira
I think that it is worthy
I can take it out

It was written that
The white elk of the copy
Was too beautiful

It seems to have changed
Resistance is resistance
The price of a start

Thankyou.

[Eivind August]

[Chankgeez]

Those haiku are sweet.

I guess something good's come out of this.

[Ugly Nora]

We need a haiku sub forum based around other team members' posts.

[Eivind August]

We need a haiku
sub forum based around
other team members' posts.

[odontophobia]

We need a haiku sub forum based around other team members' posts.

filled with Ryan Summit posts.

[joegagan]

i get it now, i will henceforth add 30% obtuse-A-matic innuendo into 50% of my postings.

[D.o.S.]

one of us. one of us.

[Jwar]

one of us. one of us.

[Sparrow]

neat thread!

[MEC]

i get it now, i will henceforth add 30% obtuse-A-matic innuendo into 50% of my postings.

The white elk of the copy of ELK does not sell at all.
Then, again!

[danieldanger]

hahahhaa yeah, the ebay sellers messages were so out there they bordered on poetic. i kept thinking "what translator could possibly do this?" because they were almost perfectly nonsensical. there were alot more too, i just posted a handful.

[danieldanger]

i mean, every single goddamned Civil War muff looks like its been in a house fire

Apples and oranges. Those Sovteks started to look like that within a few years of manufacture because the enclosure were not properly cleaned before painting, the lack of primer used, and crappy paint used. Even before those early ones were painted, the cast metal cases were finished terribly.

Re: your Elk - that's a factory made enclosure, pressed and folded using tooling and dies, not something someone made by hand in a garage. I seriously doubt anyone spent the money to make the tooling for those sheet metal parts and the battery cover, managed to get them to come out looking identical in size and shape to the originals, managed to match the surface finish and silk screen art to the T, got a pcb board made with all the pre drilled holes in the right places (I haven't seen your trace side), found all the period correct circuit components, then neglected to age it. None of that would have been worth the expense and effort though, just to make 1 or 2 pedals.

all very good info to know, thank you kit. as mentioned, i think i just got super paranoid about the whole thing playing out the way that it did that i really just needed a few more sets of eyes on it to go "nah, looks legit." i appreciate the input.

[rustywire]

Daniel Danger is a damn fine name, good to know ya.
I'm impressed by how quickly this thread was seen to its logical conclusion...with no one asking if you are Anthony Wiener.
This forum sure does host some straight shooters...underpinned by constant lighthearted silliness.
There's never a shortage of entertainment and knowledge to gain in sorting out gear mysteries.

I feel like watching Scooby Do.