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Greetings fellow amp-builders,
as a sort of delayed introduction to this community, I would like to show of my current amp project. It has been over a year that it has been waiting for completion, but it came together very nicely over the last couple of weekends. What I build is a souped-down version of the famous Soldano SLO-100, souped down because the high gain preamp is coupled to a power section of only 16W, sporting two PL84 tubes.
The amp is basically build around two parts: A "Solton Craafty 30"
Combo amplifier that I scored from eBay for 120€, and from which I
only retained the chassis and the iron. The second major component is
the PCB, which was designed by Joachim Müller, who probably build the
nicest SLO-Clone in existence, and made a small production run of the
PCBs which can be bough from www.tube-town.de. Other than that I only
bought the pots and the tube sockets, everything else come from my scrap
heap. The total cost is only around 250€ so far.
The amp is working pretty well right now, without requiring any debugging, which is almost worrying since I tend to be really sloppy when building stuff. This is the first tube amp I have build so I was very impressed that it was working straight away, usually my projects burst in flames when I
flip the switch the first time
Most of the work actually went into the head shell and the front plate, which I cut from 4mm aluminium. I anodized it after cutting the slots and I tried dying it, but for some reason the dye would not stick, so it has to stay gray. The head shell is only a prototype really, since I want to make one from flamed maple when I get my woodworking skills up to par.
Well, enjoy the pictures and dont hesitate if you have any questions.
as a sort of delayed introduction to this community, I would like to show of my current amp project. It has been over a year that it has been waiting for completion, but it came together very nicely over the last couple of weekends. What I build is a souped-down version of the famous Soldano SLO-100, souped down because the high gain preamp is coupled to a power section of only 16W, sporting two PL84 tubes.
The amp is basically build around two parts: A "Solton Craafty 30"
Combo amplifier that I scored from eBay for 120€, and from which I
only retained the chassis and the iron. The second major component is
the PCB, which was designed by Joachim Müller, who probably build the
nicest SLO-Clone in existence, and made a small production run of the
PCBs which can be bough from www.tube-town.de. Other than that I only
bought the pots and the tube sockets, everything else come from my scrap
heap. The total cost is only around 250€ so far.
The amp is working pretty well right now, without requiring any debugging, which is almost worrying since I tend to be really sloppy when building stuff. This is the first tube amp I have build so I was very impressed that it was working straight away, usually my projects burst in flames when I
flip the switch the first time
Most of the work actually went into the head shell and the front plate, which I cut from 4mm aluminium. I anodized it after cutting the slots and I tried dying it, but for some reason the dye would not stick, so it has to stay gray. The head shell is only a prototype really, since I want to make one from flamed maple when I get my woodworking skills up to par.
Well, enjoy the pictures and dont hesitate if you have any questions.
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