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Just wanted to report a successful build with the advised crystal. Sounds great overall.

Just don't flip your stomp board like I did or you'll have a bad time  . I had some extra fun crossing the leads and LED because I had a brain fart. 

Well, that was a lightning fast response, Brian! Did I ever mention how cool you are?

Thank you for putting me in a better mood so quickly. 22 cents sounds much better than a full replacement.

Hey Everyone, Just realized that I may have thrown out my 32.768kHz crystal by mistake. I feel pretty dumb since I take such care to organize and eliminate these bone headed mistakes. I found some crystals on Mouser, but wondering if these are matched \ paired to the FV-1. Everything is on the board now except the crystal, so that would suck.
If it is possible to buy the crystal over again, any suggestions on which would be the best for the FV-1? There's three I can find at Mouser. The main difference being 12.5pf or 8pf.

Thanks in advance for your time to respond!

https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/ECS/ECS-327-125-13X?qs=%2fha2pyFadugjSpDUkJ59l75jzdQMjzNPs4vxkJwCQ1A%2fYdFHyyRNuw%3d%3d

https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/ECS/ECS-3X8X?qs=%2fha2pyFaduiZ2WPpxfMdG0X4xQMfZxCInQ%252bOQmTYSE0%3d

https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/ECS/ECS-327-8-14X?qs=%2fha2pyFadugjSpDUkJ59l8o4gRWGNLcIh%2fXlQ1%252bQrpNfwZogetoajg%3d%3d

Everything is helpful, WormBoy! The link to the pictures on my One Drive has the Fuzz Face schematic from Small Bear captured. Their schematic has a stock R6 as 8.5K, but the specific transistors were biased with 47K it shows on the sheet. That's a huge difference to me, but I have no clue what that means for adjusting resistors on the BOM.

Also, I socketed R6 to swap resistors freely. I was really surprised to see that I was getting farther away from -4.5v with resistors higher than 1K. I was only able to get -4.5v when I went all the way down to 100R. Again, this is a huge difference and I am still having issues when the Cont is rolled down. I hear notes, but all of the attack is gone. You can't hear any pick work. These things are hard to explain, obviously. But I assume something else is wrong with the circuit.

Sorry, I wasn't able to edit the original post with voltages.
All stock BOM parts.
Input -
8.97v
IC1 -
1: 8.73
2: 4.33
3: 0
4: -4.28
5: -8.52
6: 0.12
7: 1.22
8: 8.73
Q1 -
C: -3.39
B: -0.09
E: -0.05
Q2 -
C: -0.09
B: -0.04
E: 0

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Hey Everyone, 'First time long time' here. I have built about 15 pedals but consider myself a complete noob. Most of my issues have been found on previous forums, but I was unable to locate anything for this.

Project: Woodstork - No mods
Problem: Pedal gets a fuzz effect with Cont at 10. The attack and clarity are lost once you start turning back the Cont. Volume and Fuzz appear to work normally. The Bias has a subtle effect, though I am not sure what I am listening for on this pot. While attempting to bias I found that T1 turned all the way down only gets me to -3.6v. I am unable to get any lower (to -4.5v) with the BOM resistors.
Troubleshooting: I have taken the obvious measures of confirming res\cap\etc values. I have reflowed all solder points that are accessible. Here's where things do not seem to add up for me. The schematic for the transistors I bought have the R6 stock value of 8.2K compared to the BOM's 1K. But then these specific transistors were biased to 47K on R6. I feel like that is a big difference from the BOM's 1K. I socketed R6 to test (I'm a noob and trying to learn how schematics work). Surprising to me, I was only able to get -4.5 by going down to 100R on R6. Guitar testing produced subtle tone changes from the 1K, but the Cont issue remained.
Substitutions: I am aware that I probably should have bought the size transistors Brian advised. This was only the second time I've bought them and I purchased the wrong size mistakenly. Again, I am a noob, but I'd like to make these transistors work. I believe they should regardless of the size. No other subs were made to my knowledge. Pics in link for community confirmation:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-_WdWusHfPgTFhQdklkUU4zeWc?usp=sharing

Any\All help is greatly appreciated. I can also provide any additional details requested.