death by audio fuzz war cheaper options ?

no clones I know of, buy a used one (they are not worth a ton on the used market from what I've seen, maybe $80-100?) or build one.... its pretty straightforward, no serious electronics knowledge required, here's the vero board layout and parts list:

http://smg.photobucket.com/user/MikeyJazz/media/fuzzwar.gif.html

maybe not the easiest 1st build, you might wanna build a silicon fuzzface or a treble booster to cut your teeth on discrete transistors before attempting this, but if you have good attention tod etails and follow the layout with the right parts you should have a fuzz gun in about an hour....

the price? nothing expensive in there, a shit ton of readily available discrete transistors, some cheap caps, diodes and caps... the box, pots and jacks are probably the msot expensive part as is the dedicated PCB.... you are paying for the original circuit, which admittedly is rather unique, though it owes a serious debt to the Colorsound Supa Tonebender, univox superfuzz, foxx tonemachine and to a lesser extent the big muff... it is probably not cloned because over the top fuzz is a niche market for small builder and small builders don't rip eachother off unless someone discontinues a popular product (like the Klon Centaur)