Hello!
I found my way here from TDPRI; I have been a guitarist for over 20 years and got more serious about doing my own work on them over the past 5. More recently my interest has turned to amps; first messing with speakers and tubes to achieve certain tones, then looking at and learning about circuits, to doing some of my own work.
I built a 5F2A last year, but admittedly did like a lego kit; I got a kit and assembled everything right the first time (with a lot of help from some members at TDPRI) and learned quite a bit, but really did not understand why things went certain places or what they did in terms of the circuitry. In the past few months I have been trying to remedy that by reading a lot and watching a lot of good stuff on YouTube.
Soon I will embark on my second build, a Brownface 6g16, and I am committed to understand every capacitor and resistor (at least to a degree) before I solder it to the board. I am pretty well on my way there, but as I have found myself getting redirected to this website so often with Google searches I figured I might as well just join here too, as TDPRI has some great amp experts on there, but it is predominantly a forum for other purposes.
So far on my way to this next build I have assembled most components. I committed to no kits, so I made parts lists and have been buying cheaper parts in bulk, more expensive components as needed, and am putting together a proper workbench with all my stuff rather than kitchen-tabling it. The hope is with each new build I will accumulate more (components and knowledge) to eventually allow me to really dissect an amp and problem solve when issues arise. I could see this turning into a serious hobby, so I'm stoked to be here and learn from other tube amp enthusiasts!
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