Emmons - Riptone Fuzz
"..."Mfd. by Emmons Industries. Belleville, New Jersey"... the more famous Emmons brand was based out of Tennessee ... There's a few things you'll notice when looking inside the Riptone; 1. is that it's clearly an FZ-1A style fuzz. 2. the components match those found in other fuzzes from late 60s NY/NJ manufacturers, and 3. all of the boards have been cracked in half! ...
safe to assume the consistently broken pcb is a result of the switch being threaded directly through the board and then attached to the enclosure.
Just a handful of stomps from an over-excited delinquent fuzz fiend probably was enough to crack the board like we see here. But what's most surprising is that it apparently didn't affect the functionality at all???
While this is an obvious flaw, it is again though not super surprising coming from an electronics company that probably wasn't regularly making guitar equipment; and the poor design is also a possible reason why we don't see too many of these floating around nowadays. "
cred: tonemachinesblog.com
