Hello from Stourbridge, England.

[Petedub]

Hi, I'm Pete.

I have been a semi pro guitar player for 40 years with gigs most weekends, although I make up my wages as a guitar teacher.

I enjoy playing blues, jazz, soul, and reggae.

I have been building amps for a few years - I have a marshall haze 40 chassis and transformers which I have been practicing on.  This was a faulty amp that I gleefully ripped out the pcbs and chips from and started my first build.

My first proper build was a marshall 18watt head.  It has Hammond transformers and the correct chassis and faceplates. This is a great sounding amp but not quite my flavour.

I am currently buying parts to build a deluxe reverb head.

The main problem with all my builds has been background noise, I have been improving build quality and layout skills to address this.

[EL34]

Welcome to the Hoffman Amps forum

There are many different boards on this forum for different topics.

The Tube Amp Building - Tweaks - Repairs board is where you can post amp questions.

That board is listed here.
https://el34world.com/Forum/index.php?board=13.0

Thanks,
Doug Hoffman

[pdf64]

I like the snake oil parts!
How would you describe the 18W’s overdrive tone? Crunchy 

[Voxbox]

Welcome sir !
Have you considered the Mars Bar mod?