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lp jr with a P90

Thats just too cool Andy, awesome score...



Randal

Thanks Sonny, and Terry !
Very helpfull, and deeply appreciated, gives me more to work with.

Randal

Manufactures used make for several brands, like National made by valco. I'd like to find more info about production numbers too, it is confusing. Even the schematics of different brands show common manufacturing decisions. Like wards had one tone control scheme and supros had another. This amp came...

Old National, single 12", 2 6V6 and 5Y3 recto... is this the Valco 510-2 ?

Any intel would be appreciated

Randal

Just never ends does it.

Not all of a sudden really, anvils went well past a buck a pound maybe 15 years ago. It's simply because many, if not all of the newly made ones are more or less junk. So to get a good one, you have to pay. Seen some go for well over 5 bucks/pound recently for really choice ones. Those are beautiful...

yup, that too.

COol amp Andy, thanks for sharing the build progress, I always enjoy that. Oh, by the way, that finish pattern on the chassis is called "jeweled", or "jeweling".... trivia for the day. Done with brushes, also with pads and abrasive compounds for even finer detail. Sometimes it was done with wooden d...

Aluminum causes Alzheimer's - when you play an amp with an aluminum chassis the amp forgets to amplify certain notes, unfortunately it does seem to remember to amplify my mistakes. :D The steel chassis are dipped in zinc which is known to reduce the severity of cold symptoms so those amps are bette...

I've done a number of re-tubes this year and have been pretty happy with tung-sol, as well as the customers. I'm becoming a bit of a fan.
fwiw

Very cool... geez, it's like it's just waiting for my name to go on it....


*sigh* I feel a bunch of overtime comin on....

heisthl wrote:Picture is worth a thousand words - this particular amp had a permanent 470k/470k voltage divider instead of a master volume, chassis is 15" like a Fender Champ.

Is the amp pictured in this post the one Sidehatch was recording?
Killer tones man, kudos+

Randal

God, you guys suck... after this thread, and those clips, I'm gonna be broke.
That's the amp.
must have... m u s t h a v e



cool sounds and info folks, thanks...
( damn fine fingers too bud...)

Randal

I've just gotten some new tung-sol 6SN7 and 6SL7 tubes for some projects I've had on the bench and been very happy with them. About 15 bucks apiece.
They are cheap NOS sometimes too.

Anyway, thought I'd throw that in there in case it helped...