For the sake of conversation then ...
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My pedal is in working order. Though the depth nob sweeps the entire tremolo depth range from 1:00-5:00.
As in, no depth until I sweep the nob to 1:00. Then it increases to maximum by 5:00.
Mine does exactly this. I've got a blue LED because, well, blue painted box. I built it a year or two ago and found that clipping a red LED in parallel with the blue one, in an attempt to get the voltage drop at that location in the circuit to be closer to what it was designed for, didn't make a noticeable difference.
I came to embrace the situation, as meaning I had a very nice boost pedal by turning the DEPTH knob down and the LEVEL knob up ...
Some day I may go back and socket the Q3 JFET and try some other samples (seeing as they vary so much), though at this point I'm not sure why it should make a difference. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around JFETs.