Normster #1 - D-clone - New Clips

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This is the Red House backing with my new 80's Esprit and a RWB Eminence.

Red House Revisited

My Normster page

[Normster]

Not too shabby. Between you and Mat, I guess I'm gonna have to spend a bit more time tweaking my Bassman.

[Icetech]

Looks good:) i built mine off norms first layout months ago and am real happy with it... cept it goes into a self induced feedback now and then.. but a smack fixes it:)

P.S. ho hard was the faceplate? mine is still just silver with magic marker...

[Harris]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!! Love the tone....playing is quite nice as well!

[Icetech]

Kinda curious if i could fit this circuit into a princeton reverb...

[Harris]

The circuit board probably would. The relays and power caps would not. If you kept the Princeton power section as is, it could probably be done. I'm not sure what impact a less filtered power section would have on the Dumble tone.

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P.S. ho hard was the faceplate? mine is still just silver with magic marker...

Made with an inkjet printer and some satin finish polyurethane....

Harris - Thank you, sir!!!

[Icetech]

Harris, yeah i have a 12" turretboards.com board in there right now, made it into a cali dreamer that sucked... so i might gut it and make another one of these with 6v6's or el84's just cause:) My other princeton reverb now has traynor 100w iron and one of the local amp guru's made a highgain amp outa with with el34's but it doesn't touch the normster for sound....

P.S. i still use the stock princeton capcan and it works ok.. if i have to ill hang caps underneith like a bassman

[Bob-I]

Kinda curious if i could fit this circuit into a princeton reverb...

I'd bet it could fit. You could place the filter caps on the opposite side of the chassis. I have a Princeton chassis that I'd like to do the same thing with.

[Tdale]

How do you make faceplates that are long enough with an inkjet printer? Most faceplates are about 20", while standard sheets are about 12"..

Tommy

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How do you make faceplates that are long enough with an inkjet printer? Most faceplates are about 20", while standard sheets are about 12"..

Tommy

I got a roll of banner paper (Staples, $4) which is 30" wide, then cut 8.5" off the end to come up with a sheet 30x8.5. Norm designed the faceplate in Visio and with some tweaks on my end, to be sure it was full size, I just printed it. (I had just purchased an Epson R220, which will print up to 44" long.) Then it was glued to the original bassman faceplate and sprayed with several coats of satin finish polyurethane. It took some experimentation, but came out sweet!

[Tdale]

I have an epson photo R300...should work for me too.

The next problem is to find the right kind of paper. What kind of paper is banner paper? Normal paper, that is glossy..? Or is it a special kind of material?

Tommy

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I have an epson photo R300...should work for me too.

The next problem is to find the right kind of paper. What kind of paper is banner paper? Normal paper, that is glossy..? Or is it a special kind of material?

Tommy

The stuff I got was just plain paper, normal thickness, about like any standard printer/copier paper. So far, it is working out well. Norm used some thicker photo paper, but said he is having some issues with the edges....

[Tdale]

Ok. I'll try. I guess sometimes we tend to make things more difficult then they are...plain paper with a few coats of polyurethane should do it.

I laminated my faceplate, and it looked pretty nice, but when you look at it from an angle, it gets less transparent, almost a shade of grey, and that's not nice.

Tommy