Building Season 2025 is Almost Here!

With 2025 off to a very rough start (long Covid), I know I can at least look forward to a brand new build season in spring. Last year I left off with three kits that were ready to build, and eight that still needed parts. In the past few weeks I've been looking for more circuits to build, but the layout sites have slowed way down with their posts. Despite their slower output with new layouts I've actually added two new builds to the 2025 build roster. I have a third waiting in the wings, because it requires such off the wall parts I'm not sure I'll fully commit to it. There is also a Bluesbreaker variant I'm wanting to build, but it's a bit off the wall too, so it too is waiting in the wings for me to decide what to do.

Among the newbies are a Sun Face clone, and another treble boost, with a Danelectro Breakdown clone being the oddball in the wings. I've wanted to build a Sun Face clone for a while, so I figured now would be the time to give it a try. All together I have thirteen kits, again most of them still need parts ordered, with the Danelectro Breakdown, the Bluesbreaker variant, and the Fender 5F1 build still hanging in limbo. The 5F1 is mostly because I'm still not too keen on messing with such high voltage.

For my sanity I'm hoping the layout websites stay slow with their output this year. As we've seen in the previous two years I make a claim early on, only to end up going wild and surpassing it by some crazy number. Once my parts order is made that will most likely mark the end of prototype building. I need to switch over to repairing circuits that didn't work out the first time, and housing all of them. I have so many circuits in little bags I want to plug in and play, but it's not as simple as that. Even worse, I'll hear something I really like and do all the research into building it, only to find out I've already built one.

Hopefully 2025 starts looking up and I can finally get to writing and recording. I've got a few demos planned, I just need to get some of my pedals finished to aid me in that pursuit. Fingers crossed everything goes better than I expect!