Greetings to the GroupDIY crew and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
New year, new builds!
I had me a small vacation, time to work on my stuff!
I started building this one long time ago, before CJ had his inspiring thread going.
Took me longer to finish it too, too much attention to detail I suppose?
As it happens, I started with building a box, though I didn't go as far as testing the sound of wood, and decided that modest MDF will be good enough...
White tolex for fancier looks!
I wanted a bigger cleaner sound, so 15" alnico was an obvious choice.
Had the front panel laser engraved, looks good!
Some drilling and hammering, a homemade turretboard!
Start putting it together, sockets, pots, transfomers and stuff.
All sorts ofold crappy "period correct" parts are used, except for electolytic caps.
When I first fired it up, it was buzzing and crackling real bad, so I redid the grounds and ran shielded wire in a couple spots.
Now it's quite silent and sounds good too!
Not to mention that it also looks good!
This build took a very long time, so now I'm hoping to do a few faster pcb+chips type builds.
:
Rather satisfying nevertheless!
New year, new builds!
I had me a small vacation, time to work on my stuff!
I started building this one long time ago, before CJ had his inspiring thread going.
Took me longer to finish it too, too much attention to detail I suppose?
As it happens, I started with building a box, though I didn't go as far as testing the sound of wood, and decided that modest MDF will be good enough...
White tolex for fancier looks!
I wanted a bigger cleaner sound, so 15" alnico was an obvious choice.
Had the front panel laser engraved, looks good!
Some drilling and hammering, a homemade turretboard!
Start putting it together, sockets, pots, transfomers and stuff.
All sorts of
When I first fired it up, it was buzzing and crackling real bad, so I redid the grounds and ran shielded wire in a couple spots.
Now it's quite silent and sounds good too!
Not to mention that it also looks good!
This build took a very long time, so now I'm hoping to do a few faster pcb+chips type builds.
:
Rather satisfying nevertheless!