Any pedal that’s good invariably ends up in bits on somebody’s workbench and the circuit diagram will quickly be available on the internet. If you have a hot soldering iron, sufficient patience and a reasonable understanding of circuit design and layout, you can build pretty much anything.

The tedious part of building your own clones is collecting all the parts. Invariably you’ll have to source them from several suppliers, all of whom will charge you carriage and purchase tax. Pedals like ours require specialist components that are hard to track down and others can only be bought in bulk unless you are prepared to pay some hefty premiums. Costs quickly mount up and that project won’t end up being quite as cheap as you imagined.

So if you’re up for the challenge, we’re pleased to offer the Crank Starter and Drive Thru in kit form. We’ve done the donkey work so you get all the same components that we use, an unpainted, pre-drilled enclosure and full instructions. The only things you won’t get from the kit are box graphics and our one year warranty. The Crank Starter is the easiest one to build and the Drive Thru is slightly more challenging.

Pedal kits generally come with printed circuit boards and putting them together isn’t especially challenging. Building a pedal ‘amp style’ will test your soldering skills, so some experience of building pedals or amplifiers is preferable. Having said that, plenty of our customers have been first time builders who successfully completed their kits.

The kit instructions include troubleshooting guides, but we do not provide any ‘fix it’ service if things go wrong and we will not provide a refund if you can’t get your kit to work. However you can email us through the website and we’ll attempt to answer any questions or queries and help as much as possible. By placing an order for this kit you are also confirming that you fully understand and accept these terms.

Mats from Sweden did a fantastic job with his Drive Thru kit and he kindly sent some pictures for the website. Note that the Drive Thru kit comes with an eyelet board rather than a turret board.