1966 Sola Sound Tone Bender MK1.5 - Very Rare pre-MKII Tone Bender Fuzz Pedal

For sale is this vintage 1966 Sola Sound MK 1.5 ToneBender. Produced in extremely limited quantities during a small window in ’66 only, the MK1.5 ToneBender is perhaps the most mythical of effects, and has certainly become one of the most historically significant effects pedals ever made. The MK 1.5 was manufactured in between the MK I and the Professional MK II. Considered the transitional model that quickly evolved into it’s 3-transistor successor (the Professional MK II ToneBender), the MK1.5 ToneBender was used as the archetype for the more famous Arbiter Fuzz Face and later used as the basis for the VOX ToneBender made in Italy. This ToneBender features the (2) Mullard OC75 transistor circuit, which has otherwise served as the foundation for most fuzz pedals which followed. Aside from a rather shabby re-appropriated battery terminal installation, this pedal is in very good original condition, and miraculously still retains the original black bottom panel.