A working day: Jazzmaster setup + new pedal work
March sale: 30% off remaining Hamilton Effects pedals (once they’re gone, they’re gone)
I’m turning 30 at the end of March, so I’m clearing the last of my current stock 30% off throughout March. What’s left is genuinely the final handful from the latest batch build:
Once these are gone, they’re gone, and I won’t be making any more of these exact versions.
A working day: Jazzmaster setup + new pedal work
Today was a mix of guitar tech work and Hamilton Effects pedal building, with a bit of playing and testing in between.
I had a Jazzmaster in for a setup and scratchplate swap, moving from 9s to 10s, plus a general clean-up and dial-in.
Jazzmasters are more involved than they look because so much of the wiring and hardware is mounted to the scratchplate — switches, pots, rhythm circuit controls, the lot — so it’s the kind of job where it pays to do it properly: clean work, careful reassembly, and a full check over afterwards.
After the swap and setup, I checked action, bridge height, tuning stability and pickup positions, and made sure it played comfortably and held tune. The output on this one is hot in a good way, and once it was set up, it absolutely came alive.
If you’re local to Crawley / West Sussex and you’ve got a guitar that needs a setup, restring, hardware install, wiring work, or general TLC, drop me a message, I love doing this stuff, and it makes a huge difference to how a guitar feels.
Pedal enclosure prep + a small early reveal
After the Jazzmaster, I drilled a new enclosure (planned out on Stompbox Layouts) and started testing a new finish idea for an upcoming range.
I also showed a pedal I’ve been working on for a while: an updated Embers in a smaller format — the goal has been refining the lower-gain, cleaner, tone-shaping side of Embers so it can work like a warm, characterful preamp as well as a vintage fuzz when you push it.
Last call: the remaining pedals are 30% off in March
If you’ve been thinking about grabbing one of my pedals, this is the moment. There are only:
2x Twin Parallel
1x Twin Boost
1x Embers
…left, and once they’re gone, they’re gone.
Twin Boost: two independently switchable boosts for flexible gain staging (clean side + bias-driven side).
Twin Parallel: blends those two voices in parallel so you can keep clarity while adding gritty, bias-driven texture, plus controls to tame volume and top-end if you need it.
Embers: vintage-inspired fuzz with a switchable input level and a wide bias range.
Thanks for watching — more soon.