Show me your proudest builds

[tubenit]

actually its a trainwreck type circuit but then i used the local feedback loop trick and brough one of tha values way low and I like the results

THANKS!  With respect, Tubenit

[mageerc]

Here is my last build... a Trainwreck Express clone named Kachina...

[jerrydyer]

actually its a trainwreck type circuit but then i used the local feedback loop trick and brough one of tha values way low and I like the results

THANKS!  With respect, Tubenit

in a nutshell its this one with some slight changes here and there. also im using the 6v6 and the bias circuit. not bothering with the conjuctive filter. not using the crossline MV.

[tubenit]

Very cool!  Thank you for sharing the information, it is appreciated.

With respect, Tubenit

[rzenc]

Awesome builds!!! Keep posting them guys!!

This is a preamp I just finished.

Best Regards

R.

[jerrydyer]

Very cool!  Thank you for sharing the information, it is appreciated.

With respect, Tubenit

heres a vid
http://youtu.be/n6OvAmIfw1I
didnt you have one that used that local feedback network?

[jerrydyer]

bypass caps were 47uf and the third gain stage I think i brought it down to about 5.6k

[JPK]

This is my 1st and only home brew. Doesn't look as fancy as the others here but it sure is a gem to play. One day I'll make a cab for it.

[Willabe]

Joe that amp looks great, like you said you just need a nice cab to put it in.

Got a gut shot pic to post?     


              Brad     

[JPK]

Joe that amp looks great, like you said you just need a nice cab to put it in.

Got a gut shot pic to post?    


              Brad      

Oh oh, after seeing the awesome wiring dressing on this thread this will be truley humbling. The amp sound awesome though. Mod's were octal socket and conjunctive filter to reduce harsh highs. The EL84 is not used anymore. Only octal valves.

PS: I may re-order the ground connections on my ground terminal strip (bottom left on pic). They are not quite in the correct order of lowest power to highest power circuits right to left. Thanks for making me look at it. lol.

[Willabe]

That's a very nice 1'st build Joe.    

As you learn more they'll get better and better. Layout will help clean up leadress and stray wires. I'm not saying anything is wrong with your layout, just more than 1 way to skin a cat. I'm still working on it too.    

I'm sure that most of the "awesome" builds you refer to were built by guys who had 10, 20, 30 or more builds/re-builds under their belt already.


                       Brad      
    

[eleventeen]

I'll second the motion, that's a very decent first build. Nothing to be ashamed of. If you build more, you'll get better at it, but it can definitely be irritating to make the wires just so.

[JPK]

Thanks guys. I promise to make it even better next time. The most fun is learning and getting better at it.

Here's a sound clip with a KT66. Scroll down to "Download This File" and enter the 4 letters they display, click "Download Now". Sorry it's a bit of a pain but it works..

http://www.freefilehosting.net/ironman_1

[smackoj]

now you got us rockin'   

[gldtp99]

I've been doing a lot of gut/rebuilds of old tube PA heads for the locals lately---no pics of these taken----- but here's a 50 watt Plexi-type build w/LarMar PPIMV i did last yr:



Used leftover Metro chassis, faceplates, turret board, and laydown PT--- Magnetic Components OT--- not as inventive as many of the other amps posted--- just another 50 watt Plexi clone----- but it looks nicer than the PA head gut/rebuilds i've done since----- recently finished a Sound City 120-to-Hiwatt gut/conversion---nice player but not as photogenic as this greenish Plexi.............................gldtp99

[JPK]

Nice! Where did you get the cab? I need to make or buy one of these after I get my current 18 watt Plexi wired up and debugged.

[gldtp99]

I got the head cab off ebay, it's a "second" (maybe because of a couple of small scuffs ?)-------it was made by Mojo Music Supply-- their Custom Shop------ dark greenish leather looking material with an upgraded type of handle.
I also have one of their standard black tolex Marshall-type smallbox 50/JTM 45 head cabs------i'm going to build a 6V6x4 Plexi with that one soon.
Mojo cabinets here: http://www.mojotone.com/amp-parts/cabinets

[Ritchie200]

Oh oh, after seeing the awesome wiring dressing on this thread this will be truley humbling. The amp sound awesome though. Mod's were octal socket and conjunctive filter to reduce harsh highs. The EL84 is not used anymore. Only octal valves.

PS: I may re-order the ground connections on my ground terminal strip (bottom left on pic). They are not quite in the correct order of lowest power to highest power circuits right to left. Thanks for making me look at it. lol.

Joe,
As the others have said, that looks fine!  You can spend hours cinching them up and bending them in nice 90 degree forms - and all that will do is guarantee it will hum itself off your bench due to lead dress!  As long as its quiet, you are good to go!  Ehh, lead dress can come later after you have blown some things up, shocked yourself a couple of times, and completely torn down and re-soldered an amp you tired everything to get working - but could not!  As Willabe said, you will be surprised what you learn as you go.  As you mentioned, the important thing is how it sounds when you plug in!  Nice job.
Jim

[catnine]

 Every single amp build posted here are works of art . Each has their own personal expression and signature.

 I don't have but photo's of three builds I did , all the others I lost the photo's and are now sold so here is what I have .


 This was my very first build . It was a kit I think STF electronics and was a basic 5F2A princeton that came with a hammond chassis an transformers . I don't have a photo of the inside and the back is off for the photo but it was like a hald cover from the top down to the chassis and had two cutouts like the old fender tweeds to allow heat out. Later on I got another chassis from the same place and a larger Hammond PT and a huge Allen amps SE OT and built the same basic amp but had 2 6V6's in parallel and added a output jack selector switch yet the cab was the same one. I made it into a head from the start. I sold it years ago .




 This is a 77 fender music master bass amp chassis in a 71 music master bass amp cab . I got the amp dead so I sort of cramed a weber 5E3 eyelet board in there and added a rect socket and one 9 pin and changed things a bit over time . I added an adj/fixed bias and used the input and tone stack from  6G2 and used an Allen amps TP25  PT and allen amps TO25 OT . It all fit it has no tremlo and  built the bias board you see on the far left next to the first filter cap.It has a weber sig12s alnico. I later added a spst toggle as can be seen in the photo of the amps face to switch out the second gain bypass cap and add in the 6G2 NFB loop or flipped the other way it's back to the bypass cap and no NFB loop.

here's the spdt switch I added for the NFB and bypass cap.


 

[catnine]

 This is my SF Champ homebrew . Allen Amps narrow panel tweed chassis . weber tranny's the eyelet board came with the chassis and was perfect to build the circuit on. The cab ,well , I built that cab to build a few other amps so since I had it I fit the new chassis in what was once the side so I spliced in a section of mahogany ply I had left and mad a new cutout so that's why the speaker in not in the center but I liked it like that . I had a pot to add more resistance to the NFB seem on  the bottom of the chassis right and it went to a fender dpdt slide switch that was already a cutout in the chassis next to the input jacks , I removed the pot and 3 green leads and installed a toggle where the pot was so the NFB is on or off. That hole is a prepunched extra 9 pin in case one wanted to build a P-P ss rect or what ever one wanted.

[catnine]

This is a cab I built back in 2005 . I had a SF 1973 champ at the time so I built this cab the same width as the fender music master bass amp cab only tall enough to fit 2 twelves . Since the champ chassis and MM bass amp chassis are the same exact size I first slide the SF champs chassis in it and ran the 12's . When I sold the champ I then slide the 77 chassis I showed in my first post into this cab and ran 2 tweves and had 6L6;s and a GZ-34 in that chassis then I decided to put it back in the 71 MM bass amp stock cab with the 6V6's and 5Y3 and one 12 . It was just too much amp for here. I did love the SF champ  in there with 2 twelves it was a fun amp . I still have that cab sitting empty . maybe some day I will use it again. Maybe .

[catnine]

 This is the first strat I ever built in 1985 . I got the wood from a hardwood place that is not gone and got the frets and other hardware from a guitar shop here that used to sell new parts and got the truss rod there to and built this with hand tools and a router and small bench top drill press. I built three more since then and still have this one and two others. One is a hondurous mahogany two peice body with clear finish and the other is light ash two piece body sunburst and the white one is alder two piece body . All have rosewood finger boards and jumbo bass frets and rock hard maple necks. All built the same way the hard way.

[LooseChange]

Lots of talent around here... Makes me want to build something!!

[smackoj]

how 'bout a pic of the other two Cat-o-nine Strats?  love that blanco uno!

 

[catnine]

Here ya go smackoj :

 When I built the mahogany strat I first used the neck off a 1984 american standard strat I had then built my own neck then sold the american standard strat . This photo was taken about 1994 when I got the fender tweed blues deluxe amp you see behind the strats. I need to get some photo's of how they look now with a lot more wear.

[Ritchie200]

You like the wang bar on the top side?  I've always wondered how Jimi dealt with that (of course I've wondered about a lot of what Jimi did!).  Very nice builds!

Jim

PS Note to Tubenit - this is what a REAL guitar looks like!

[catnine]

You like the wang bar on the top side?  I've always wondered how Jimi dealt with that (of course I've wondered about a lot of what Jimi did!).  Very nice builds!

Jim

PS Note to Tubenit - this is what a REAL guitar looks like!

 

Thanks Jim. Truth of the matter is the left hand tremlos on 2 of the strats I did were cheap since the guitar shop I got them from didn't sell many of them so they were half the price so I went with those. But after trying them I really like them because basically most of the force is on the low E side . Even the pick guard of the mahogany one is used but was cheap and in great shape . I have three different PU sets in each strat . The white one has used Ibanez strat Pu's that I got for free from a local guitar shop , he always had a bag of old parts for me when I came in but they are not far from stock strat pU's they are the same size and have the staggered poles . The sunburst one has Semour Duncans that I got new but cheap from the same place they are SSL-1 models and both the white and sunburst have gotoh vintage style tuners and trem's . The mahogany one has fender texas specials  and fender trem and tuners but it was a trade, I replaced the shop owners power window motors and window regulators on his old ford shop van for the PU's and trem and tuners. All the three strats have wide necks at the nut 1 3/4" so I can get my big boney fingers in there and the necks are thick too . I still have an extra set of the Ibanez strat PU's just in case but they seem to last a long time.

[CraigB]

Lots of talent around here... Makes me want to build something!!

Please do, and post it - love seeing your work here

[Tone Junkie]

Man thats really nice  love the work you guys do .
I will add one I just finished tomorrow got to take a picture.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks Bill

[Tone Junkie]

Here's one  I finished awile back.
Bill

[JPK]

I finally got a bottom for my AX84.com October build. For those of you who are not familiar, 20 watt, push pull, 6V6GT, tube recto, vintage/modern switch. Dark, Bright gain. I love the amp. By far the best sounding amp I've owned. The front and rear faceplates were hand made. The cab's are custom made by Sourmash. The 2x12 1936 bottom just arrived yesterday. Loaded with WGS Invaders. Sounds killer.

PS: I need to shave a little plexi off the bottom of the front face plate to center it better. Just too lazy. lol.

[JPK]

Back shot. Guts.

[JPK]

Here's my previously posted AX84.com High Octane Head inserted in my new Sourmash head (for the October. It's a perfect fit since both chassis are 16x2x8). I'm not sure I want to buy another head cab though. The High Octane (SE 10 watt, KT66) doesn't sound so good next to the October and I may need to beef it up. Not sure how. It just sounds thin and small in comparison.

[phsyconoodler]

Here's another favorite build on mine.It's an Overdrive Rocket.6v6's D-Style amp.

[andresound]

Here is my trainwreck express clone. I am a newby and this is my first build!! It is for personal use only!! Her name is "Caryn". She is fitted with a VVR, which reallly helps!! Current tube complement is 2x NOS Mullard ecc83 and 1x NOS Phillips miniwat ecc83 for v1. Power tubes are NOS Philips (Mullard) EL34 XF2 and NOS Seimens XF3. She is quiet quiet (except for hiss), even when fully dimed. Really chuffed. PT and OT are MM clones of Stancor 3801.

[glassesnvests]

Here are two amps I finished recently, my first foray into a peudo-original design (although I'm sure it's been done before), a 5e3 power section and PI with a BF deluxe preamp modified to have a colder sound, more glassy. Turned out great! CNC milled on my little diy CNC basswood faceplates. Warehouse G12C in the Aqua one and a Celestion G12H

[sluckey]

Hey guys. Those are some nice looking amps!

[Willabe]

Yeah they are!     


              Brad     

[eleventeen]

Oh I like those two-tones!

[Shack]

my favorite thread thus far....awesome amps guys....ill post mine later, my 5e3 sounds awesome but doesnt belong here yet

[TNblueshawk]

Dang, I didn't know this thread existed until I saw it in another thread. This should be a sticky.
 
Very impressive builds and very unique.
 
Subscribed 

[MFowler]

My John Mayer Signature reverb build.

[vibrolax]

I posted this here when I completed it mid-2014, but maybe later arrivals might not mind seeing it again.
It is a complete Ampeg SVT preamp (actually an SVP-CL) built on turret board in a 1U chassis.
Full doc and build store at http://www.frontiernet.net/~jff/SonOfSVPCL/DIYSVTBassPreamplifier.html

Jon

[Willabe]

Beautiful work guys!!!!!!!


             Brad   

[vibrolax]

My John Mayer Signature reverb build.

 :icon_biggrin:What did you use to cover the cabinet?

It made me wonder if anyone here has built an amp with Kustom tuck-and-roll decor.
If not, I may need to do that.

[sluckey]

Here's one I did in the late '60s...

[Glennjeff]

Vibrolax,

Awesome SVT job. I am definitely going to build one of them.

As to the rest, there are some very talented cabinet makers, upholsterers and artists around this place.

[MFowler]

My John Mayer Signature reverb build.

 :icon_biggrin:What did you use to cover the cabinet?

It made me wonder if anyone here has built an amp with Kustom tuck-and-roll decor.
If not, I may need to do that.

Buckskin suede covering cabinet built by Amplified Nation.

[TNblueshawk]

Here's one I did in the late '60s...

You've been building amps since the late 60's?

[sluckey]

I took a 30 year break between '76 and '06. My acoustic days.