pix of Custom built guitar amps/cabs

[Ben N]

tca, I like what you did, there. Which Ikea box is that? Everything I can see on their site has those annoying cutouts in the sides.

[tca]

tca, I like what you did, there. Which Ikea box is that? Everything I can see on their site has those annoying cutouts in the sides.

Is out of production now Can not be found anymore (UK and Portugal).

[Thomeeque]

 Hello, my J-FIFTY 50W tube-head, finally finished (almost, fx-loop/reverb block is missing; I don't need it now, maybe in the future) and properly boxed.















Click pic for hi-res; see full gallery for more (guts, crazy former version from 1997, genessis to the actual state.. click chapter header to show/hide chapter content).

It is a loose JCM800 clone with Tiny Terror influences (EQ bypass, volume control after PI so the PI can be overdriven) and Black Finger™ inside partially

Cheers, T.

[Greenmachine]

Jeez.  Cool man!

[kurtlives]

Very cool! The compact PCB build is well executed.

Got a schematic to share?

[seedlings]

Customer's design aesthetics.




CHAD

[deadastronaut]

@tomas:  very cool.

@chad: is the customer the robot from metropolis?.....looks great.

[Thomeeque]

 Thanks for compliments, guys

Got a schematic to share? - I yet need to clean-up and update schematic with the latest mods (which won't be that easy as I did most of them three years ago ) And I rather won't share Black Finger part, as BF is one of those forbidden IIRC

EDIT: Some small (and little obsolete too) info about J50's circuitry can be found here..

Impressive wood-work, Chad (no doubts about other qualities either )!

[lespos]

Customer's design aesthetics.




CHAD

  outstanding!!!

[rrroo]

i had some leftover parts from the previous project: a piece of grill cloth, feet and plenty of screws and t-nuts. I also had some leftover paints and a moldy old childrens bed (pine) that i had to get rid of. so one night i had this idea and made this. the corners are not exactly 90 degrees since i don't have proper equipment at home but it came out quit nice. i'm not sure what to do with it yet but i guess that it is allways good to have a spare 1x10" cabinet lying around, just in case...

[deadastronaut]

looks great, ....and the speaker does too..

[rrroo]

the cow is there just for some size reference. i was thinking of maybe building a small bedroom amp in teh cabinet. noisy cricket/tube cricket or something similar.

[haveyouseenhim]

One question. How big is the cow?

Great looking cab though. It makes me want to put down the soldering iron and pick up the skilsaw.

[kurtlives]

Over the last few months I have been putting together, building and recording a new amp. The amp is derived from the classic Marshall 1974x (18W) design and shares much of the same elements. It is however modified and voiced to be more of a 20W Plexi ala JTM45/JTM50/1959. Think small package Plexi tones without the killer volume. So fat clear clean tones and singing distorted tones. Lots of chunk and grind too.

Everything you wanted to know about the design and controls of the amp can be seen in the schematic
http://i1.wp.com/pdfelectronics.com/wp-content/gallery/18w-build/20w-plexi-schematic.jpg?

The completion of this amp coincided nicely with acquisition of my ES-335













For more info, pics and sound clips check out http://pdfelectronics.com/18w-plexi/ Interested to here some feedback on the soundclips. I am no expert in recording but I did the best I could with what I had on hand/knew.

[Ben N]

Wow, Chris--looks like a Hiwatt on the inside. That is just gorgeous.

[Levispeights]

Here's my favorite build so far...



The amp is a combination of a Vox'ish pre amp (12ax7) section and a 1957 Magnatone power (EL84) section.

[John Lyons]

That's looks great!

[G. Hoffman]

Clean!!!





Dirty!!!!!!





I think it looks like the costume of a `70's era superhero!!!  I think I'll call it the Super Hero Overdrive.  


It's not actually done, and I'll have to build a speaker cabinet to go with it, but I covered the front panel tonight, and it looks so good I had to share!!!  Unfortunately, I made the front panel too large to fit the white piping around the front panel, which would have added that last 10% to the looks, but I thing it looks pretty damn cool anyway.

I like it so much, I just spent about 5 minutes just going back and forth between close ups of the logo changing colors!


Gabriel

[bluebunny]

I think I must be tired, or getting old - took me a while to spot the difference!   

Nice build, Gabriel.  Good to see a design that stand out a little from the crowd.   

[G. Hoffman]

I think I must be tired, or getting old - took me a while to spot the difference!   

Nice build, Gabriel.  Good to see a design that stand out a little from the crowd.   

It was the Red/Blue bicolor LED's that inspired the color scheme, actually, but last year I built a small CNC machine which makes doing all the engraving really easy.  The plexi for the logo was a bit of an issue, because it just didn't work with the stuff you buy at Home Despot.  I had to buy a higher quality and extra clear acrylic. 


Gabriel