Excellent work, with beautiful close-up shots. Meticulous wiring and a pleasant, concise narrative style. Thanks so much for posting such a fine video.
Uncle Doug!! Thanks so much for commenting and checking out the vid. I've been a fan of your videos for years and, like many others, found a wealth of knowledge from your channel. Very sad to hear about Rusty, he was a true Rock Dog indeed. The mystery amp series was great, particularly the transformer used for the phase inversion, amazing stuff. thank you again, and I'm looking forward to the next pickup truck!
It was a pleasure, E. I meant every word.....your work is exceptional. Thanks for your very nice comments, especially about Rusty. He was a great little pal.
Incredible craftsmanship my friend. Now I see what separates a consumer made amp to a custom point to point one made with love! Excellent work. I'm getting closer to building one myself and your videos have helped me prepare mentally for the task. Thank you.
wow. beautiful craftsmanship.This makes my fender pro look like it was put together by an epileptic hamster. The only thing i've seen this neat was on old ferranti signal generator from the RAF c. 1967 all silver-plated connectors and cord lacing...and that probably cost more than my dads first house!
I've watched this amp build, and am thoroughly impressed. I have bought your plans from your website, and they appear very well done. I admire your technical abilities and will strive to do better in my future builds and repairs. Thank you so much and I hope you build more things in the future! We are wanting more!!!!
This is why I love youtube, I was trying to find info about a pedal with a 6111 inside, and found this amazing series that has helped me learn a lot of nice tricks to use in my little projects. Thanks again my friend.
That is a very interesting vid, those macro shots are so great. Well lit and without disturbing shades. You show a very proper way of organizing and soldering the cables, it is inspiring. Thanks!
Crunch channel soundss ace! I am feeding off your calm vibes and whatever I have service/build next shall just take it in small steps. When it comes to Music Electronics I get a surge of addrenaline cos I really want to get to the plug and play part quickly, in all else I have the patience of the Saints .
Gosh Geoff, I am so enjoying all your videos! I so work differently, a lot rougher with far less planning so your meticulousness is totally inspiring. I suppose it's the art thing I did for years which encouraged mistakes because then I'd be in territory where I'd have to come up with new ideas... but now I'm back into amps, effects and guitars, well lets just say that being careful and applying forethought is a good idea and your work is great for that. Actually I wouldn't mind sending you some wood to play with as here in East Tamaki, Auckland I come across a fair amount of Rainforest woods that arrived as packing crates, especially a CNC machine importer down the road. I've ordered the plan set and my email is within that so if you wanna follow this up I'll get your address and see about getting stuff to you. Cheers matey!
Hi Sean! Sorry for delay in reply, Easter got a little busy. Thanks for the kind words. I checked through my records but cannot find your email, perhaps it is under a different name? If you could email me through my website then I will certainly get your address. The hardwood sounds very interesting as well as your amp and effects work. Get in touch certainly, cheers!!
Wow! great amp building skills.Learned quite a lot from this.Only thing I would perhaps do differently would be using cc resistors for the plates.Great video!
Thanks so much MG. I'd love to play one of your guitars too. That Hamer replica you built, whoa dude!! Love the neck inlays, great contrast! Maybe one day we will cross paths and make it happen. If you ever in New Zealand, let me know, cheers!
Buenas noches, te felicito, es una muy buena calidad de sonido y muy buen pasatiempo, yo hace más de dos años estoy empezando esto de los radios y amplificadores de valvulas, saludos, Mario Cruz, México.
This series is far and away the best of its kind that I have ever seen. Great job !! I have watched the last few videos. I just happend across video #3 ( I think that it was 3, maybe 4 ) . So I haven't seen the first couple videos. I am very interested in the materials you have used. Board, wire, switches, jacks, etc.... . Do you mind sharing where you acquired you materials? Did you collect everything from one source or many ? I particularly like the switches and jacks you installed. I rather like your choice of wire. I do apologize if you shared this info in a earlier video already. I will be going back to watch those videos. Once I finish up the videos from which point I'm at now. Again, thank you and a job well done. Watching you assemble this amplifier has been a treat.
That wiring is a work of art; great series of videos too, and the amp sounds great and better still through headphones. Is that another guitar that you have built and if so will we be seeing the build videos.
Thanks SAF! Yeah that is a guitar I built some time back. It was made from one piece of Matai wood (NZ Red Pine) and I made just as a parallel build so that all the mistakes could be made on this guitar first. Turns out to be my favourite, so light and wonderful snarly tone. In my experience, one of the finest tone woods I've used. I need to replace the neck as it is too narrow for me so I'll probably do that soon and document the process. Many thanks, have a great day!
@@johnbravo7542 hear hear! Diagonal cutters that's for sure mate now that you mention it! I stopped using them when I started wearing long pants lol! He's gotta get himself a pair of FLUSH CUT wire cutters for sure! I dunno how I missed that ay, with Geoff's superclear close-up photography!
Absolutely outstanding I think this is completely beyond me but I have thoroughly enjoyed watching a skilled builder Thank you Have you said how much the components are ? Of great playing And demonstration of amp
Thanks Andy! With the components I used and all of the other bits and pieces the price came to about $400 US from memory. However you could use cheaper components of course. Thanks for kind words much appreciated.
I very carefully twist them with the needle nose pliers. They can handle the twisting no problem, you just have to take it easy. Thanks for question, have a great day!
Incredible dude, I have a question, what are the terminals that you use to solder, and been looking for sale but I do not know the name, I would appreciate if you would pass me the data, if someone else can tell me I would appreciate
Awesome series of video! Thank you so much! I have a question, that may have already been asked, and sorry if it's the case :) Do we have to use turrets boards and so on to build such amps? or can we get the same result with a PCM and all the components soldered on the PCB? Thak you in advance! Cheerz from France!
They are not too expensive. I only used these because they have long leads and are a cool colour. They are way cheaper than Takman's but not the cheapest by a long stretch either, cheers. I think they are about 15 cent a piece, something like that.
To be honest, probably very little difference, carbon films are very nice however I used PRP resistors because they always perform well for me and the leads are very long which I also like. Cheers
Hi Jose, thanks for message. Here in NZ it is 6am , Ive been asleep so haven't quite got to my emails yet. I'll send you the plans when I'm at my desk in a few hours. Sorry for delay and mix up.
Gabriel Cuevas I watched the entire build. I enjoyed every minute of it. Your attn. to detail is excellent! Also your pace of work and narrating was very good! So easy to listen to the areas of work that require a methodical approach as well as identifying the problem spots! I may arrempt this project myself. There is a great satisfaction when you build something great! Could I ask what it cost approximately for this build ?
@@elams1894 thanks for your reply. I just finished bing watching all your amp and guitar videos. No really....all of them. I finished up reading the comments from the guys arguing about your strat pickups, yeeesh. It is way past my bed time here in northwest Indiana. Its 12:13 a.m. and I have to up at 3:30a.m ( thanks alot man, lol), to pick up overtime at work so I can afford more toys. Your work is amazing. And the back drop around your work space is amazing. You must have some peaceful days when your out toolin around. Yeah...im jealous. Thanks for the enjoyment. Hope to see more great projects from you.
@@whatyoumakeofit6635 - Thanks Bryan! Really appreciate all your kind words and also glad you found the vids enjoyable. I have a few more projects up my sleeve so all good. Hope you get some sleep and dont work too hard ay;) Cheers!!
Very nice job mate! But I HATE the method of mounting of the power transformer you used it looks awful! Sorry, but looks like it's about to fall off the chassis. You should have made right angle brackets for it! Geez what were you thinking? Fugly as! Oh so painful to look at! Go on mate, I know you can do it properly! Apart from that, a beautifully constructed amp my friend, at NASA standard, but not perfect!
