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It's so much easier to relax and do nothing.

A tweed Fender bassman reissue, volume on 9-10, simple as that. Put an attenuator on - magic gone...

My thoughts are you have to go for the 4x power tube way, for full experience. Everything in that config I've ever plugged into has what I describe as a majestic quality to it. It may be the harmonics and overtones of 5th, 7ths etc... that I'm hearing, like organ stops perhaps.

shhpotify?

If I was looking at commissioning a build I'd get it done with 4x 6V6 power section and smaller iron. It'd still be loud.

I think that might be on the Trinity amps catalog, I'd have to follow that up to know for sure.

I heat gunned off the finish on the backside of my Vintage Junior. Looks normal from the front, I figured get some oxygen into the timber.
If you did that you'd see how many bits of wood it's made with.
I think Gary Moore did this with his guitars.

My next imaginary amp adventure is to crank up a DR103 and experience what happens.

I've bought from here for car paint (PPG Deltron) before, been a while. Thought I'd check for PPG Speedlac and there it is.

https://totalbodyshop.co.nz/products/0a ... a733&_ss=r

You'd have to follow up with colour tint detail code whatever.

Okay I'll have box it up & post (shudder). Looks approx NZ $25, add forum sales tax @ $10, add postage about $5. Total $40, this is new and unopened in original box.
What say you?

That DIY link the sizzle posted makes good reading and appears doable. I had a look in my stock pile & much to my surprise found the new Dayton Audio L-pads. I have 100w 3/8" shaft in 16 and 8 ohm version. What impedance are you chasing?

I checked that verse. “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

I've got a 4x12 quad that I sometimes wonder what inscriptions lurk inside if any.

I have no religious subscription, only a curious observer.

Molly wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 6:53 pm I did a similar thing, though for an Ibanez Destroyer...

It was the Eighties, my opinion of an even older pre cbs strat was it was old and shitty, like the car I drove.

...and that car looking like about $30K now.

TmcB wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 4:49 pm I have built a couple of Brakelite's – the parts are annoying to source, the testing is stressful but it's good

I actually have a bunch of parts to make one still if you'd like me to dig them out

Is the impedance variable on the Brakelite?

I bought a couple of those Lpads from Parts Express once, 50w - 75w power handling? (memory is poor). I went down the THD Hotplate path instead. Nuisance though as you need a lot of THD's to match different amp types/impedance.

I once had a US 74 strat, light ash, maple neck and hardtail. Rose tinted glasses & all and a long time ago but that thing was the stratiest quackiest sounding thing.
I can still remember the dude in the shop looking at me in despair as I traded it in on a Charvel.