Donor candidates

[Reeltarded]

If I am building a Dumble, might as well be a Twin, or a Showman head.. or a Twin sawed off into a head? I might already have one of those..

You people make me sick.. no, really. I can't sleep until I have this thing nailed down. I hate you all.

Thanks!

[brentm]

Are you talking conversion, or organ (iron) harvesting? I was going to pick up a early 70s Twin on Craigslist and just harvest the iron from it. It'd be only 4 ohms if I used the output trannie, but my cab is 4 ohm anyway

Ofcourse, I got to thinking about knocking a vintage fender in the head and what that might feel like down the road. Would I someday regret taking a vintage amplifier and parting it out?

[jelle]

I have done that back in the day and am still regretting it. New parts are cheap and apparently, Mr. Dumble can make great amps with that so why mess up a cool vintage amp?

[cbass]

'58 tweed twin would be the perfect donor.Just cut it down into a head with a saws-all

[jelle]

You could make a nice crate for magazines with the bottom piece.

[Reeltarded]

hah.. ok then. Jeees. I have a BF Twin that was chopped and has a bad OT, so I was just figurin'.

I like the magazine stand idea. I have to imagine that is why the Twin was cut, and in a North Carolina bathroom there must be a magazine stand with 2-12s and a couple years of Boy's Life and at least one Sears catalog.

Ok, so whois going to hold my hand? This thing looks a little harder than your average clone.

[Luthierwnc]

Must be eastern NC.

It can be done. Not my first choice since there isn't a lot of room vertically in a blackface. Use the doghouse wisely so you don't have to cram a lot of filter caps on the board. I have a '67 Bassman that has been many things in its lifetime. I have 8/32 bolts through the bottom with a star washer and nut, a piece of garolite, another nut as a spacer, the actual component board and nylon interior lock nuts to keep it down. About 1/2" at the shoulder. That leaves plenty of room for the preamp parts.

You'll still have to think out the panel switches. Fender skirt knobs don't make good push/pull knobs unless you can get your fingernails under the flange.

Some hack butchery will be needed for the footswitch hole. The silverface preservation society might swear out a warrant but I don't think the southeastern chapter is all that active right now sh

[cbass]

I have one of these http://letstalkguild.com/phpBB2/viewtop ... f=9&t=9488
I was cosidering trying a dumble build in.