Catoline Lucky Cat Pizza - Caroline Hawaiian Pizza Fuzz B's Music Edition

The Catoline Lucky Cat Pizza Fuzz is a take on the Caroline Hawaiian Pizza Fuzz using alternate transistors. It's also a tribute to Caroline founder Philippe Herndon's cat Lucky.

This will not be a standard addition as the transistors used in this Fuzz were from a radio shack.. and.. well.. It's 2024. Looking to be 25 pieces (Well 24 as B is Keeping one)



Here it is from Philippe himself...

Several years ago, all the Radio Shacks closed. This was kind of a sad moment for me. I know it's just retail and stuff, but I had fond memories of the place. You'd go in and see kids banging on keyboards screaming "IT'S RAINING MEN", people buying pay-per-minute burner phones, and I'd hunt for weird parts to try out a circuit idea. I still have a Realistic stereo amplifier that chugs along even as the LED backlight has faded. 

When our local got the axe, it was everything must go, and the shelves soon cleared out in the order you'd expect: first the electronics, then the toys, and eventually nothing was left but the oddball project electronics stuff. I went by to grab some of the last rolls of solder and there were a handful of plastic packs of bipolar NPN transistors. I bought all that remained thinking that one day they might be of use. 

Our beloved cat Lucky was once a stray kitten who passed away after eighteen cozy years in our home. He was a big nineteen pound chungus who loved binge watching British crime shows with us and patiently taught us an intro level class about responsibility for another living creature. So when B's Music asked us about a Cat themed fuzz pedal, what better way to pay tribute to what we find by accident, than to try those random transistors in this pedal?

The Radio Shackers were a grab bag of mild/medium transistors that make interesting, milder sounds at lower gains than our Hawaiian Pizza fuzz - but still crazy gnarly and squishy when cranked for all out blast. We hope you dig them. 

This pedal was named the Lucky Cat by tribute and accident/forgetfulness and is not related to the "Lucky Cat" delay pedal made by JHS several years ago. Josh and I are cool with my mistake.