The Watering Hole

I've got a guitar player I jam with who just loves Neil Young's tone for whatever reason.  For that reason alone, I'm about to build a Durham Crazy Horse, which is kind of an interesting pedal.  It's got an overdrive section borrowed substantially from a Tube Screamer, with some eq changes, and then it's got a fuzz section that's somewhat built from two silicon fuzz face circuits cascaded, and at the end it's got a somewhat BMP-style tone control. In the middle there it's got a volts control to starve voltage to the fuzz face circuit.  Pretty much a combination of raw rock punch and nasty, fuzzy anger, that can also be smooth and raucous, feeds back on a dime, and sounds a lot like Neil Young on some settings.  

If anyone wants one gimme a holler.  I'm intrigued by this pedal and will probably build a couple at once.

What kind of coin are we talking?  I'm intrigued by the uniqueness of it.  The voltage starving sounds like a cool feature that gives the pedal a lot  of versatility.

Judging by parts and complexity probably $100. They go for $249 new.

This is an insanely cool pedal.  I've had it on my board now for a few weeks and it's gotten a workout by all the major jam players.  It doesn't sound really like Neil Young's sound.  It does sound like a killer crunch/fuzz/distortion.  No subtlety here.

I listened to a few of the U2b demos of the Durham pedal a while back. It seemed OK.  It was kind of strange.  Kind of a Fuzzy bastard child.  Not full fuzz.  But it didn't WOW me.  Of course, it's hard to imagine how it would sound in my setup. Those demo vids can be pretty un-telling.  The starving feature was interesting. Seemed to mud out at really low voltage.