My first successful scratch build!

[gui_tarzan]

Finally! I have a working guitar amp that was hand-built by me. It still needs some tweaking but the damned thing works! After months of experimenting and trying different things (along with my regular amp repairs) I have what is mostly a tweed 1958 Fender Bassman 5F6A circuit. Now comes the tweaking and fitting with an appropriate speaker, and I have a true, hand-wired, point-to-point all-tube amp at a cost of pennies on the dollar.

Two characteristics of myself that I value is my persistence and determination and they finally paid off. :bigsmile:

No pics yet, but I will take some once it's done.

Hammond PT and OT out of a '60 M-100, JJ 6L6s, Shuguang 12AX7s and a handful of parts out of the parts box. Repairing amps is great and there is a lot of satisfaction in doing it but actually building one from scratch, point-to-point is even more gratifying. Hats off to you guys for encouraging and helping me these past months, it has paid off in spades.



Now if I could play guitar as well as I can play bass I might actually have something.

[gui_tarzan]

Ah, what the heck. Here it is, please excuse the mess. I'll clean up the wiring when I put it in its permanent home chassis.

[WRC34]

Great job -looks killer!

I am a huge fan of point-to-point wiring. Not because I believe it has any sonic benefits, I just like how simple it looks

[martin manning]

Congrats! Quite the thrill powering them up. Then there's the tweaking, closely followed by the thinking about the next one...

[Phil_S]

You'd think PTP build isn't the best approach for a 1st scratch build, but it turns out that it's a great idea. My 1st scratch build was also PTP -- a Franken-champ. I found that using the schematic like a layout was about the simplest approach and it worked out great after someone helped me find the 100K that should have been 1K!

Congratulations on a job well done!

Now, as Martin says, it's a slippery slope to the next one. You might as well cave in to the force and start accumulating parts.

[Structo]

Nice job!

It's funny when you do point to point, it doesn't look like that many components.
But put those same parts on a eyelet board and suddenly it's crowded.

[The Ballzz]

gui_tarzan,
Please excuse and relieve a newb's confusion/curiosity. How does that work out to being a 5F6A with only 2 12AX7's? Did you cascade V1a & V1b? I see that you provided 2 extra sockets for future experimentation.
Just Curious,
Gene

[The Ballzz]

And, Oh Yeah,
Why go through all the hassle/aggravation/etc. to swap it to a different chassis? I think it looks great, as is and a nice set of face/rear panels will certainly disguise/cover a lot of sins!
Just Sayin'
Gene