Anyone ever use 3pdt.com for their pcb's or kits?

[smallpoxchampion]

Just came across this site today and wondered if anyone has any feedback on this website. It's apparently a Chinese company which always makes me a little nervous in regards to shipping and order fulfillment, but more than that I can't seem to find anything with regards to how these sound. Also, the kit prices on there are crazy cheap which kinda threw up another red flag.
http://www.3pdt.com/

[CodeMonk]

"Foxx® Tone Maschine Fuzz"

?

Full kit for the Foxx is $24.90
"Full Kit" means all parts and EVERYTHING you need to build this effect are included, transistors, ICs, jacks, potentiometers, PCB, DC jack, 3PDT footswitch... . Not included are wire, tin, enclosure, knobs.

Actually, not all that cheap.

[R.G.]

 See http://www.geofex.com/effxfaq/bldfx.htm - which was written in the late 1990s, by the way. It's still a reasonable explanation. The changes are that the electronics and PCBs are *cheaper* now, and the mechanical parts are the same or more expensive.

3PDT.com is selling you the cheap, easy stuff and probably making a handsome profit doing it.

I find it amusing that although vintage pedals still command high prices, the boutique clones of the vintage stuff have been advertised into the same stratospheric ranges.

[knutolai]

I find it amusing that although vintage pedals still command high prices, the boutique clones of the vintage stuff have been advertised into the same stratospheric ranges.

I guess that's a necessary business measure to achieve any profit as a small-scale pedal manufacturer. Nice article, good read.

The changes are that the electronics and PCBs are *cheaper* now, and the mechanical parts are the same or more expensive.

From looking at the 'Effects Economics 101' I'd say mechanical parts and enclosures are cheaper today too. A 1590BB at Taydaelectronics costs 6.90$ and pots, jacks and knobs are 0.5$ each. Still competing with major companies is real though. Unless you label your stuff "boutique" I guess 

[bean]

Wow, so he copied my layouts for the Dipthonizer and Tone Machine. How incredibly lazy.

[knutolai]

Wow, so he copied my layouts for the Dipthonizer and Tone Machine. How incredibly lazy.

Welcome to China. Lazy=smart

[LucifersTrip]

A friend asked me to help him build a Small Stone Phaser. I see that they have the pcb.

Since I don't usually use pcbs, I don't know many sellers outside of the common ones mentioned here...

Who else sells that pcb? My friend wanted to build the earliest version.


thanx