The Amp Garage

Anyone want to chime in with some suggestions for some decent glass for my boogie, bearing in mind its fixed bias, being in the UK we don't have a great selection of production stuff at reasonable costs

Anyone had any experience with these, I have a chance to score a matched pair screened to mesa tolerance,

I've to admit I,m slightly bemused, on a section of the forum that is in large devoted to cloning the work of someone folk are getting their knickers in a twist

dorrisant wrote:Kinda like motorcycle riders... There are those who have crashed and those who are going to crash. No third option.

Tony

So right, got the road rash and a lot more caution

You won't be able to run your speaker(s) with just the preamp tubes. The preamp feeds into the power amp, then to the speaker - so if you pull the power tubes, no signal will get to the speaker. That's the general idea, I have a 1 watt power amp that I would like to run rather than the full on roar...

Been messing with my D Clone, I am ok to just run the preamp section and pull the power tubes if I want to use the preamp section as a standalone for practice? I suspect I should be but am now suffering from severe brain fart

Ive heard a lot lot worse than that, I doubt anything will ever really nail a valve amp but that's a pretty good effort

What did you use for the red? A spirit based dye, effectively you dissolve the dye in Methylated spirits, wipe on and wait for it to dry then build up the coats to get the desired shade, I found I needed around 20 coats on the top to 5 coats on the main body, leave to dry for 24 hours then shoot th...

Reeltarded wrote:Perfect! Great job. The color is the right one too.

You never know the customer might hate the colour( doubt it very much) and I get to keep it,
Just fitted a Graphtec nut and got the last bits of hardware on ready to play in tonight

Cheers folks, I,m getting quite attached to this one , fortunately it needs playing in and setting up so the new owner gets to wait for a few gigs lol

Hi folks, playing around with a few bits on a build going no where fast lol, has anyone tried cathode biasing a dumble power section and what sort of results did you get
Cheers in advance

Bit of a update , plenty of horror for those that hate red lol however its not bad in my humble opinion, few bits to sort out like a new nut, new saddles etc, i'll play it in this weekend with a rough setup and see where I am with it. The finish is spirit dyed with 2 clear coats of nitro and some ca...

By spirit based I'm assuming you mean oil based stain. Maple and oil based stain don't mix. Just paint it black then if you don't like goldtop. If you mean a dye dissolved in alcohol that will work much more betta Alcohol dissolvable dyes, never bothered with oil based dnnyes due problems with shoo...

By spirit based I'm assuming you mean oil based stain. Maple and oil based stain don't mix. Just paint it black then if you don't like goldtop. If you mean a dye dissolved in alcohol that will work much more betta Alcohol dissolvable dyes, never bothered with oil based dyes due problems with shooti...

Hey folks still here, a bit of a update, man do I take on some projects, I,ve been working on getting the top smoothed out and removing the last traces of the filler primer it had been ladled with, the headstock overlay is a total write off so I am waiting for new decals from CroxGuitars, colour wis...