http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Fender-Guit ... 3220wt_930
and is it Too good to be true?

I'm betting early 70's. I had an original Fender Fuzz Wah. Be careful what you wish for. The pots in those things were string driven now gear driven. I looks a little frayed in the photo.

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yeah, but for ten bucks it's a steal

Hi d3nyd94: it's a volume pedal - just about the simplest bit of electronics you can place beneath your foot. I suppose I just about get why folks search out vintage wahs, but if ever there was a case of vintage not being better it would likely be this. Like 63supro says, visually it looks on its last legs (haha) and who knows what's going on in the pot?

For the same money (as of this moment) I'd be picking up something like this instead:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Morley-Little-Allig ... 4aa190a38c

It is almost certainly in much better shape and has the useful little feature of the "minimum volume" range knob.

Or search out any other pedal that is in good, new-ish working order.

Unless you're some kind of vintage collector that is, I guess...

Cheers - C

I dont see whats last legs about it, just looks like it needs a cleanup to me.

With treadle pedals you will always need replacement pots. On a volume pedal there shouldnt be much more to fail on it than that.

I'd buy it for a tenner.

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Erm, well as 63supro pointed out, the line from the pedal to the pot looks on the worn side, quite apart from the cosmetic state of the thing.

A volume pedal is just a potentiometer fixed to a treadle. I can't for the life of me see the point of shopping for a battered old one when a nice new one is available for the same price. Unless d3nyd94 feels it just has to say Fender on it.

But Ninja, if anyone's ears can hear a crucial difference on the old one it'll be yours. And you're one of the few I'd take seriously if you make that claim!

Cheers - C

I'll bet that bit of string isnt a difficult replacement. Atleast to anyone who can tie their own shoelaces

Infact I had missed that. I dont know anything about these fender pedals other than their fuzzwah that I tried. I'd buy them at a tenner a time all day long.
What does the new version of the Fender Volume cost? £60 ish??? The Vol/Tone pedal looks great though I'd be sorely tempted to try and reverse the controls so the volume happened with the sideways movement. Hopefully you could get a boosted Qless wah sound that way.

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I did own an original Fuzz Wah that worked the same way. The string is a pain in the arse. The strong drive was also a huge drawback in the operation of the thing. If I remember correctly, there was some spring involved with the string too. That was noisy too. Mine always started to slip after a while. They weren't worth ten bucks new. Plus they're huge and slow operating. It's a volume pedal. New ones are cheap enough and you don't have to work on them. All this vintage crap gets carried way too far.

It's your ten buck plus the shipping.

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