{"id":259474,"date":"2025-11-03T10:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/259474\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T10:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:13:08","slug":"bill-finnegan-is-auctioning-another-newly-built-gold-klon-centaur-and-the-current-bids-already-over-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/259474\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Finnegan is auctioning another newly-built gold Klon Centaur \u2013 and the current bid\u2019s already over $2,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might never stumble upon the Holy Grail, but you can try your luck with the next best thing \u2013 an original, gold-finish Klon<\/a> Centaur, straight from Bill Finnegan himself.<\/p>\n

The listing went live on 2 November via Finnegan\u2019s official eBay account, klondirectsales, with bids already climbing past the $2,000 mark \u2014 and they\u2019re showing no signs of slowing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHi everyone \u2013 this Sunday, 11\/02\/2025, an eBay auction will begin (at 7 pm PST) for a newly-built, previously-unused gold-finish Centaur unit, the eBay account name being klondirectsales,\u201d mythical overdrive\u2019s creator\u2019s announced on Instagram. \u201cThanks for all of your interest and support over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The listing itself provides some extra context for collectors. This particular unit carries the serial number RG 022, where \u201cRG\u201d stands for Reissue Gold. And according to Finnegan, \u201cthe unit has been hand-built by me, in exactly the same way as I have been hand-building Centaur units for something like thirty years now, and with the exact same components (including, specifically, the exact same NOS clipping diodes) that I have always used.\u201d<\/p>\n

For guitarists and collectors, a Finnegan-built Klon is the stuff of legend. The original Centaur \u2013 hand-wired and sold directly by Finnegan throughout the \u201890s and early 2000s \u2013 redefined transparent overdrive, and quickly became one of the most sought after pedals on the planet. When production stopped, used prices skyrocketed into the stratosphere, and myths surrounding the circuit only deepened.<\/p>\n

This latest auction follows a rather turbulent year for the Centaur\u2019s legacy. Finnegan recently found himself in a legal battle with Behringer, after the latter\u2019s $69 Centaur Overdrive pedal<\/a> hit the market in 2024. Finnegan sued Behringer\u2019s parent company, Music Tribe, calling the unit a \u201cblatant counterfeit\u201d<\/a> and citing \u201cextensive actual confusion\u201d among players who believed it was officially licensed.<\/p>\n

The controversy only added fuel to the Klon\u2019s mythology \u2013 second-hand listings of Behringer\u2019s pedal even shot up to $2,000 overnight<\/a>, as collectors speculated it might be pulled. The company eventually changed the pedal\u2019s name to Centara, and later Zentara, with court documents confirming that the case has since been dismissed<\/a>, with no costs incurred to either party.<\/p>\n

Check out the listing at eBay<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You might never stumble upon the Holy Grail, but you can try your luck with the next best…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,75957,12362,105],"class_list":["post-259474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-overdrive","tag-pedals","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}