Author Topic: pix of Custom built guitar amps/cabs (Read 451258 times)

wildebelor · « **Reply #440 on:** April 06, 2014, 07:04:54 PM »

New cab for a new amp!
The cab was a horrible line 6 that I stripped, stained and clear coated.
Grill cloth too!

Jdansti · « **Reply #441 on:** April 06, 2014, 08:42:56 PM »

It turned out great!

boppy100 · « **Reply #442 on:** April 06, 2014, 09:26:04 PM »

Looking good

tca · « **Reply #443 on:** April 11, 2014, 10:19:22 AM »

Here is another cab in progress for a 6'' speaker:

tca · « **Reply #444 on:** April 13, 2014, 11:25:16 AM »

And the finished cab:

The wood was not in very good conditions but nevertheless the final result sounds good!

Cheers.

BLACK AUDIO · « **Reply #445 on:** April 13, 2014, 11:57:33 AM »

My friend Danny made for me small practise amp from scratches - circuit is slightly modified champ 5F1 and sounds amazing!

thomasha · « **Reply #446 on:** May 10, 2014, 06:00:39 PM »

Hey guys,

My new Superfly head, in a 1590a

Thomas

tubelectron · « **Reply #447 on:** May 11, 2014, 04:03:02 AM »

Well yes, thomasha ! Probably the most compact tube head ever built...

As funny as nice tour de force.

I don't think I can go so small, but I am thinking about something in combo, so indeed a little bigger.

I have been off the forum for some time, but it was incidentally for the best... Here are some pix of my Custom Built and Designed guitar amps below - not so compact of course, but compact quand même :

A 25W RMS clean sound model, with triode/pentode, booster and presence control switching at the back. The loudspeaker is a neodymium 10" Jensen NEO 10-100. The power tubes are damping screen protected and suspended to avoid microphonics. 3-Spring reverb. USAF NOS transformers.

Tested by pro players at my local music dealer (the amp is here put on a Deluxe Reverb RI, for size and tone comparison) :

Two compact "Home & Small Venues" amplifiers, at 5W PMS with 8" AlNiCo speaker. Both integrates an Holy Grail Nano reverb circuit, since I didn't come to a satisfactory solution for a spring reverb ans simplified circuit in a so compact format. The bigger one has a tube tremolo, triode/pentode and presence switch. Dimensions of the smaller one are 340x260x180mm :

Size comparison with a Fender Blues Junior :

A+!

Greenmachine · « **Reply #448 on:** May 11, 2014, 07:54:59 PM »

wildebelor · « **Reply #449 on:** May 11, 2014, 07:59:40 PM »

WOAH! I did not expect the Holy grail to actually be stuck to the chassis!!!

Mich P · « **Reply #450 on:** May 12, 2014, 02:33:31 AM »

Super Class Bruno J'adore !
Great work.
Mich P.

tubelectron · « **Reply #451 on:** May 14, 2014, 08:49:44 AM »

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WOAH! I did not expect the Holy grail to actually be stuck to the chassis!!!

1 - everything of the unit is already and factory stock in the casing, with the exception of the displaced REVERB pot.
2 - the casing acts as a complete shielding of the unit, as intended by the manufacturer.
3 - only one screw to fix the unit on the chassis, where you have the place to stick it.
4 - a miniature PSU with a 7809 powered from the 12V auxilliary winding of the power Xfo.

And that's done.

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Super Class Bruno J'adore !
Great work.
Mich P.

Thanks !

A+!

thomasha · « **Reply #452 on:** May 16, 2014, 06:37:23 PM »

Hi,
a friend asked me to build a portable small battery amp, and I build him a MS-2 in a 4x smaller 1974x combo.

He also wanted an 10W amp in a barrel.

Greetings,
Thomas

seadi123 · « **Reply #453 on:** May 17, 2014, 08:30:27 AM »

Quote from: thomasha on May 16, 2014, 06:37:23 PM

That's the cutest amp i've ever seen !

sonarchotic · « **Reply #454 on:** May 20, 2014, 08:56:56 PM »

Fire Fly Ver. 4. Pine cab. stained and waxed.

Jdansti · « **Reply #455 on:** May 21, 2014, 02:32:52 AM »

^ Nice!

bluebunny · « **Reply #456 on:** May 21, 2014, 03:36:29 AM »

Quote from: sonarchotic on May 20, 2014, 08:56:56 PM

Show off!

Nice work indeed. The only way I'd get dove-tails like that would be to draw them on.

sonarchotic · « **Reply #457 on:** May 21, 2014, 07:25:31 AM »

Thanks guys. A jig makes the joints pretty easy.

micromegas · « **Reply #458 on:** May 21, 2014, 07:32:17 AM »

Quote from: tubelectron on May 11, 2014, 04:03:02 AM

Well yes, thomasha ! Probably the most compact tube head ever built... As funny as nice tour de force.

I don't think I can go so small, but I am thinking about something in combo, so indeed a little bigger.

I have been off the forum for some time, but it was incidentally for the best... Here are some pix of my Custom Built and Designed guitar amps below - not so compact of course, but compact quand même :

A 25W RMS clean sound model, with triode/pentode, booster and presence control switching at the back. The loudspeaker is a neodymium 10" Jensen NEO 10-100. The power tubes are damping screen protected and suspended to avoid microphonics. 3-Spring reverb. USAF NOS transformers.

Tested by pro players at my local music dealer (the amp is here put on a Deluxe Reverb RI, for size and tone comparison) :

Two compact "Home & Small Venues" amplifiers, at 5W PMS with 8" AlNiCo speaker. Both integrates an Holy Grail Nano reverb circuit, since I didn't come to a satisfactory solution for a spring reverb ans simplified circuit in a so compact format. The bigger one has a tube tremolo, triode/pentode and presence switch. Dimensions of the smaller one are 340x260x180mm :

Size comparison with a Fender Blues Junior :

A+!

Those are some pro builds inside and out! The first one looks like something I would love to try...

diydave · « **Reply #459 on:** June 03, 2014, 06:52:39 AM »

A Orange / Vox hybrid.
I've been rebuilding this amp for the last 5 years.
Finally a result I can live with.

Even made my own piping

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