The Amp Garage

Thanks. I’d buy another and know just what to expect.

It is dyed pine, and finished in Tung oil. Like 12 coats. Harder woods are easier. The ash for the Teles was awesome.

This was a fun thing I ended up selling to a friend who now gigs weekly with it. His need was a reasonably loud clean amp. He’d borrowed my 5C3 combo build for a few gigs and loved it so I bought this stuff from Drew and did it up. My mom and I have been fooling with her old aniline dye powders on a...

It’s as if everything came back to life over the last week. Lots of new business inquiries. Hopefully this valley will become a hill for the next six months.

Xtian, LOL! Mark, that’s the amp to end all amplifiers being dropped. Damn. I have an old VT-22 head in right now that I thought was big.... I have nothing but 100 watters in right now. Orange, Mesa, Ampeg, EVH. At least they’re finally coming in again. Summertime blues. Like a month where there was...

Had a Mesa Double Rect chassis fall from atop its head cab to the floor a couple days ago. Never had an amp fall before. Both 5U4s were crushed but amazingly the output quad weren’t, but their locator pins all went. That amp is getting new tubes as we pay for our mistakes.

Too quiet around here..

Got my eyelets today. Glad Ken came through. Hope he does for the rest of you as well.

I got a shipping notification on mine. Guess he followed through, on mine at least.

Thanks for the input fellas. Used to order from Hoffman years ago. Didn’t even think about him for eyelets these days. I’ll chime in with regard to the outcome of this (last) order with Watts when it’s all said and done.

I’m in the boat too. Ordered 400 eyelets on June 4th. Got a confirmation email that it was processing but no ship info. Haven’t seen anything yet. I did read a post identical to this one on FB and decided to order still.

Where do you guys get your eyelets, if not from Watts?

Man that’s really cool

Hard to believe how long it’s been since this thread aired

pdf64 check those out....

Steve, that looks like a fun and big SOB. I dig the aluminum dust cap. My favorite was the Altec 417 but now I think the EV may have replaced that one. Still need to put a good few more volts into it and make sure.

Not sure exactly of the specifics but here are a couple pics....

I posted here a long while back about wanting to try an EV SRO and the time finally came today when I got to. I ended up buying a pristine example off of eBay because I needed to satisfy a particular speaker fix that wasn’t gratified by a FB deal I came across for a Celestion AlNiCo Cream. $180 ship...

Andy, if you find any of those knobs and are interested in selling, I’m sure my customer would be interested. Thanks for the info. I did like the iron when I first pulled the chassis. And I remember thinking that the 8417s must’ve been late production because I’d never seen or heard of them. Had a l...