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T-bolty thing

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Made over the 2nd-to-last week of my summer holiday out of a collection of parts I had lying around.

Loosely based on '65 supro thunderbolt but with switchable single/parallel V1* (instead of the single triode V1) and a James tone stack** followed by a vol control (instead of the vol control followed by a one knob tilt control) and a 12" speaker (instead of a 15" speaker***) and a tweed style chassis (instead of a thunderbolt style).

* gives option of more gain with the otherwise unused triode
** I like these tone stacks - they have excellent treble control and lovely bass eq for guitar
*** 15" speaker won't fit in the cab I made.

[img:1024:725]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8328/8381 ... 6aa0_b.jpg[/img]

[img:1024:768]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8518/8378 ... c128_b.jpg[/img]

[img:1024:768]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8332/8378 ... 3fce_b.jpg[/img]
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Looks real nice!

What does the front of the amp look like?
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Front is a slanting baffle covered is some kinda black grille fabric. Forgot to take a pic of it.
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I've always been curious about that type of amp. How's it sound?
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Don't let Rick Neilson see that other[black/white/check] :D amp in the pic, he'll be trying to buy it from you..
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Great build Pete.
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Richie wrote:Don't let Rick Neilson see that other[black/white/check] :D amp in the pic, he'll be trying to buy it from you..
That's my stand alone reverb unit. I have a matching covered 2 x 12" amp where I put in an Allen Old Flame circuit but added Bias-vary trem. The combination of the BF style verb in the old flame cloney thing and the stand alone reverb in front is pretty surf-tastic.

[img:640:480]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7194/6799 ... 2e13_z.jpg[/img]

[img:640:480]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7066/6945 ... d483_z.jpg[/img]

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Pete,

My grandma wants her table cloth back :)

Just kidding I like that look a lot, tweed is boring next to that cloth. :)
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Thanks Mark. The gingham is actually quite a tweedy fabric with a strong fabric weave to it, unlike tablecloth (but I'll concede that the pattern is confusingly similar).
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That first sound clip almost has a sitar sound to it.

How does it sound when you crank it up?
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