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Recently acquired a collection of NOS parts yesterday dating back to the 70s. Enough to last me many years of amp making. From Philips resistors, Yellow mustards, Matsushita and National capacitors, terminals, fuses, solder, solder stations etc. A shop was closing down and I picked what I needed fo...

Here's another 5E3 with robinette mods and bigger chassis.

Been enjoying these smaller amps lately. Maybe I'll try a gibson circuit haha.

Thought I'd share this as well. 5e3 style circuit - 20w (classictone PT), SS rectifier, 6v6 with minimal wire crossover.
Yellow mustart caps, industrial wiring. individual bias test points and single ground.

Recently acquired a collection of NOS parts yesterday dating back to the 70s. Enough to last me many years of amp making. From Philips resistors, Yellow mustards, Matsushita and National capacitors, terminals, fuses, solder, solder stations etc. A shop was closing down and I picked what I needed for...

Keen for a gearfest!

I lied. I'm keeping the fuzz and buying the Jan Ray anyway haha

Doing a pedalboard overhaul. Took the current vemurams from the large board and moved it to the small board. Reg's pedal will go to my main board. Butter machine and ods-1 will be added to the large board after I return mid May. Main board made by cleantones (super awesome dude). Made the top board...

Figured I'd kick off a fresh thread to mark the new chapter in my building journey. With a new country comes a new approach, right? :lol: Thanks to friends who chipped in with power tools, and with a decent job, I'm all set up to make amps for myself without having to sell them. Also got a bunch of ...

All wired up. Just need a standard sized polytune.

Doing a pedalboard overhaul. Took the current vemurams from the large board and moved it to the small board. Reg's pedal will go to my main board. Butter machine and ods-1 will be added to the large board after I return mid May. Main board made by cleantones (super awesome dude). Made the top board ...

Ordered one of Reg's MSA SR Drive This pedal has a lot of power. I got the version with two master volumes. Great tonal balance, great string definition, buttery yet meaty: Very versatile and can easily adjust to any amp I have. It works well with pedals and looks sexy too. They sounded so good I or...

blackstratblues wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 7:49 am

Marshmallow wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 7:32 am
Just finished some stuff, jam soon?

Sure thing, you still need to visit the home studio

Yes definitely, still looking forward to it. Will drop you a message!

blackstratblues wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:43 pm

murky wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 2:15 pm * it looked bigger in the photo…..

Could be the angle, old habits die….hard

Just finished some stuff, jam soon?

MikeC wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:25 pm Who's is that warehouse full of gear?

It's my mate's. He's a sound engineer - Awesome dude.

Had a mini gearfest/jam sesh/tone talk with Warren (blackstratblues) and our mate Jack early this morning. Was awesome!! https://i.imgur.com/jMJl4Zd.jpeg Still waiting for livesound to open as well but the board arrived so I'll be processing the board and chassis soon or later. https://i.imgur.com/w...