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Poor, mistreated stompboxes!
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2026 9:30 am
by Pepe
Let's collect pictures of misused and completely beat-up stompboxes! Laurie, it's time to dig out those DD-2 pictures from years ago.
This is from a recent ebay auction in Rome*:
- beat-up DF-2 1.jpg (90.26 KiB) Viewed 1659 times
- beat-up DF-2 2.jpg (73.49 KiB) Viewed 1659 times
- beat-up DF-2 3.jpg (73.04 KiB) Viewed 1659 times
*of course the one in Italy!
Re: Poor, mistreated stompboxes!
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2026 4:16 pm
by laurie
Not as bad as your example... but here you go!
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- DD2-1.JPG (122.89 KiB) Viewed 1649 times
Re: Poor, mistreated stompboxes!
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2026 4:22 pm
by Pepe
But didn't the DD-2 look absolutely horrible inside?
Re: Poor, mistreated stompboxes!
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2026 1:23 am
by chromandre
I find a beat up BOSS pedal pretty charming especially a distortion
Re: Poor, mistreated stompboxes!
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2026 2:03 am
by laurie
Pepe wrote: ↑Sat Jan 24, 2026 4:22 pm
But didn't the DD-2 look absolutely horrible inside?
You may be thinking about my NS-2?
http://www.bossareaforum.com/Forum/view ... ?f=6&t=748
Re: Poor, mistreated stompboxes!
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2026 12:35 pm
by Pepe
Oh my goodness! I have to cite myself:
Pepe wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2023 7:04 am
Re: Poor, mistreated stompboxes!
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2026 12:58 pm
by BearBoy
- KC DS-1 - Copy.jpg (91.49 KiB) Viewed 1623 times
Despite the fairly poor condition, the seller managed to get $75k for this one...
Guess it does have a silver screw
LINK
Re: Poor, mistreated stompboxes!
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2026 2:55 pm
by Pepe
It was really Kurt Cobain's DS-1 and it came with a certificate? Wow! Maybe that was an inspiration for the previous owner of my DF-2 with the "FÄRZÄRRÄR" scrawl (mangling of the German word "Verzerrer" = "distortion") on it:
Luckily it looked like this after my cleaning:
Re: Poor, mistreated stompboxes!
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2026 3:35 pm
by BearBoy
You did a great job cleaning up that DF-2, Pepe
Did you hang on to it or sell it on?
Re: Poor, mistreated stompboxes!
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2026 3:43 pm
by Pepe
It was a Taiwanese model that I sold a few months ago. I found an MIJ model and I am keeping this one.