eBay - How Much Is A Despot Worth?

Well, I know we have put a price on the head of The Despotic One if you want to buy it direct from us (which would be rather nice of you as we need the money to buy some more capacitors and resistors and things), but to be totally honest, we didn't really have a clue what to charge.

I mean, on one hand it is totally unique, hand-made and a complete one-off. It has a serial number of '2', which when you think about it in Fender or Gibson terms is kinda crazy (ahem) and could mean that the amp is worth, err, millions in years to come.

But on the other, it is home made from a second hand cigar box with the electronics housed in a Swan Vestas match box.

So, its worth is probably  a matter of perspective.

To help us decide whether this is crazy cheap or madly over-priced, we figured we'd let you decide (or at least the people who notice it on eBay if anybody does.)

You can see how it is doing HERE

And if nobody notices it and it remains unsold, it'll stay here and I will continue to do my best Sonic Youth impressions...

I really don't care either way.

And, finally....

Well, yet another change of plan saw the cigarette tin replaced by an absolutely beautiful Bolivar Cigar Box, but as you can see below or in the 'Shop' we've finally broken our duck and made a little amp available to punterdom. Yep, you can finally buy one of our amps and it is The Despotic One that is out and about.

In the end we went for a complete no-frills jobbie, no knobs pretty lights or anything else, but I tell you what it is excellent to play, that Amy-tone circuit, great fun and I didn't even wake anybody up at three this morning when I was giving it some welly... Brilliant.

As for the Cheryl-tone amps, well, a minor glitch has been resolved and hopefully we'll have one of those up and about tres soonest, but to be honest I'm off to play with Amy, she knows how to make even the sourest despot lively.

Right, now does anybody know the chords to Wild Thing?