Another Express Build Done

sepulchre · Post by **sepulchre** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 6:41 am

Beautiful build, inside & out!

Love that emblem, too!

jeff12 · Post by **jeff12** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 7:00 am

Was asked for more pictures of inside, here they are hope it helps.

sepulchre · Post by **sepulchre** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 7:45 am

Really nice work!

But I have what is probably an ignorant question. I've been reading about cap outer foil alignment. From what I have found it is said that the outer foil should be connected to the lowest impedance. I notice that you have the .002 coupler's foil going to the grid of V2. Shouldn't that be attached to V1's plate? Wouldn't that be the lower impedance?

jeff12 · Post by **jeff12** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 8:10 am

sepulchre wrote:Really nice work!

But I have what is probably an ignorant question. I've been reading about cap outer foil alignment. From what I have found it is said that the outer foil should be connected to the lowest impedance. I notice that you have the .002 coupler's foil going to the grid of V2. Shouldn't that be attached to V1's plate? Wouldn't that be the lower impedance?

You are probably right, I just built it like I did my last express, trying to get this one to sound close to the way the last one does and everyone likes it.
Not sure maybe it was part of why the last one sounded so good, lets break some rules here, after all it is rock n roll.

sepulchre · Post by **sepulchre** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 8:19 am

Hey, don't fix it if it aint broke. I was just wondering. Thx!

RJ Guitars · Post by **RJ Guitars** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 10:54 pm

Very Nice work indeed! Looks very close to original. I am finding that any of the old Mallory caps are getting rare. Nice job on the cabinet as well.

BIG Dave · Post by **BIG Dave** » Mon Dec 16, 2013 2:22 am

Two thumbs up!

cbass · Post by **cbass** » Mon Dec 16, 2013 2:36 am

Wow very nice

ubxf · Post by **ubxf** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 4:15 pm

Thank you so much for the extra pictures, i tried the best i could to emulate your work and it revived my build.Now i have to try to learn why

jeff12 · Post by **jeff12** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 4:55 pm

ubxf wrote:Thank you so much for the extra pictures, i tried the best i could to emulate your work and it revived my build.Now i have to try to learn why

Glad I could help you.
I have found lots of useful posts and pictures on this forum.

M Fowler · Post by **M Fowler** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 5:45 pm

That's not Columbia red wire

njwrecks · Post by **njwrecks** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 3:39 am

wowo- that's great looking!

jeff12 · Post by **jeff12** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 3:54 am

M Fowler wrote:That's not Columbia red wire

No that is Midwest McMaster Carr, I like the Red tint of their wire, It seems to add something to the sound, I tried black and white but the red sounds much much better.

surfsup · Post by **surfsup** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 1:21 pm

Wow very nice

Yes, Big Dave's avatar is quite nice!

yea yea that amp is tha shiz as well...

donzoid · Post by **donzoid** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 10:05 am

That's some of the cleanest lead dress I've seen and I have to say even though I can't even come close I am using this series of pix as my build guide for the lead dress. Fantastic! Thank you for the faithful reproduction! Those must be some kind of specialty flea clip...I like them. I wouldn't mind using those on my next build. I guess I'd better get this year's McMaster catalog so I can get some of that red wire.

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