Hand-built in a workshop in a garden workshop in Northamptonshire, UK, the Reeves Electro Facet IZ is a (gorgeous-looking) Fuzz Face variant built around a pair of Micro Electronics C1016Y yellow dot silicon transistors. The case is screen-printed using glossy enamel ink.
Adding a Tone control to the typical Fuzz Face two-knob layout (comprising Volume and Fuzz), the Facet IZ surrenders some of the glassy clean-up typical of this circuit in favor of a more fat and aggressive fuzz tone that’s still able to keep some of the performance’s dynamics at lower guitar volumes.
There’s also a variant on this model, the Facet FF, a more faithful (or entirely faithful, according to the builder) reproduction of the 1969 Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face, vintage parts and all (although, quite clearly, the case is different!).
