Not that I know for one moment what the guy who runs Analogman is thinking, but it’s just a really small shop, and pedals aren’t all that profitable to make, unless you achieve economies of scale, like the Boss and Strymons of the world.
You can’t really achieve economy of scale handmaking pedals as Analogman certainly does (his shop’s been on YouTube).
They don’t have the ability to crank out multiple pedals by the thousands in a short period of time.
My guess is they build pedals In small batches and move on to the next pedal model when they’ve assembled all the pedals in a run. That’d be a very simple and logical explanation for the wait times, requiring no complicated speculation about the dude’s inner motivation, the state of the pedal market, or the desirability of having few pedals for sale at any given time.
Using the principle of Occam’s razor, the simplest explanation is usually true.
Some folks are in business to build a big, efficient, and highly profitable business, and some folks are in business to make a living and have something to do that they like, and some are in-between. It’s hard to guess at someone’s inner thoughts.
