Ok new surfybear goodness....
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2021 3:32 pm
I bought the bits from kev77 for a few reasons.
1/ The cab is tweed, one of a kind and I like the builder - not as much as I should, but hey.
2/ Surfybear kits have a great rep.
3/ I wanted a new soddering iron, perfect excuse. Retired my 15 year old Dick Smith POS. Bought a Weller, cos I've always like them.
4/ I don't have reverb in either of my tweed amps, though I have real 50's trem in my vibrolux - so was curious to see how good this was in comparison.
I did the test build a couple of weeks back - the ally chassis was a bit shit, so built an new bender (oh-err). Bent some more ally and shined it up a bit, hey its going to get a proper faceplate at some stage (the vibrolux has been waiting about 12 years funnily enough).
How does it sound? Not sure really yet, only tested quickly to make sure sound was going through it. Will get some time over the next few days, my hands better in mornings so I tend to play with headphones first thing. This is obviously not going to work.
This is how it looks currently, I'm going to distress it more in line with my vibrolux cab, this one is just semi-olding.
1/ The cab is tweed, one of a kind and I like the builder - not as much as I should, but hey.
2/ Surfybear kits have a great rep.
3/ I wanted a new soddering iron, perfect excuse. Retired my 15 year old Dick Smith POS. Bought a Weller, cos I've always like them.
4/ I don't have reverb in either of my tweed amps, though I have real 50's trem in my vibrolux - so was curious to see how good this was in comparison.
I did the test build a couple of weeks back - the ally chassis was a bit shit, so built an new bender (oh-err). Bent some more ally and shined it up a bit, hey its going to get a proper faceplate at some stage (the vibrolux has been waiting about 12 years funnily enough).
How does it sound? Not sure really yet, only tested quickly to make sure sound was going through it. Will get some time over the next few days, my hands better in mornings so I tend to play with headphones first thing. This is obviously not going to work.
This is how it looks currently, I'm going to distress it more in line with my vibrolux cab, this one is just semi-olding.