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Jp.
Bronze Member
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 Posted - 07/28/2005 : 15:57:21
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Give me your recommendations.
I'm headed your way in November and I'm looking to bring home a couple of toys. What I'm looking for is some home grown UK stuff.
I'm deffinately coming home with a couple of sets of Bare Knuckle Pickups. But a few little toys that are really small company boutique stuff. Effects pedals, pickups, knick knacks and stuff.
The world is a pretty small place and you can get just about anything anywhere in the world nowadays, but as you guys know its the import duty/middle-men that make things really expensive.
USA -> UK stuff is no cheaper there than it is in Australia.
A Marshall head and quad box is a little big for hand lugage
Thanks Guys/Gals
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Jp.
Bronze Member
65 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2005 : 16:01:40
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I just went through the entire members list
Theres FIVE guys registered in the United Kingdom
This will be a short recomendation list |
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bossarea
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
3652 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2005 : 17:16:26
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Yes, I should probably promote the forum a bit more locally 
The amp industry has always been strong here but as you say, a Marshall head is rather large for hand luggage. On the top of my head I can think of Marshall, Vox, Cornford, Wolftone, Mango, Ashdown, hiwatt and of course the single ended ones I make in my garage 
There's a couple of guitar makers like Burns, JJ and Scorpion but no really large ones.
Effects... I can't think of any. Both Marshall and Vox has pedals but I think they're all made in Asia. I still fancy one of the new Vox pedals though. |
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arcanon1313
Silver Member
USA
414 Posts |
Posted - 07/29/2005 : 00:28:41
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| You make amps Bossarea? I've been thinking of learning how to build amps. |
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bossarea
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
3652 Posts |
Posted - 07/29/2005 : 00:58:37
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I've only made one so far so it's not a huge production.
Pics here: http://www.bossarea.com/firefly/
I removed the sound samples because I've made so many changes to it that they aren't representative of the amp anymore.
I did a lot of mistakes with the first amp but learned a lot too. I'm currently working on the second amp where I've added another preamp valve. Only have the tolexing left to do before I can start on my 3rd.
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Jp.
Bronze Member
65 Posts |
Posted - 07/29/2005 : 15:16:26
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bossarea I'm suitably impressed!!!
That is really quite an achievment.
I must admit my passion lies in guitar making.
Not that i can do it but hey there's that much you can obtain on the black art its almost staggering.
I bought my first house 18 months ago and I really dont have a workshop yet but I'm working on it!
I bought a 6m x 6m workshop second hand off a friend. A you-remove kind of job. Its in the back yard in pieces waiting for me to get around to the shire approval paper work.
I'll get there. |
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bossarea
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
3652 Posts |
Posted - 07/29/2005 : 22:34:19
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I bought my first house 8 months ago. I've got a 9m garage with a workshop in one end. Perfect for all sorts of projects.
I'm no expert but I'm ok with electronics. Woodworking I don't have a clue about. I have some long term plans about building a novelty guitar shaped as a sheep  but that might take years. For now I'll be building amps for a while. |
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arcanon1313
Silver Member
USA
414 Posts |
Posted - 07/30/2005 : 01:56:54
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| I'm going to start building effects soon, I understand the theory, and making the boxes won't be hard at all. after i build a couple of pedals i'm going to give a try at building an amp. By the way bossarea, Nice Amp! Very impressive. How long did it take you to build it? |
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bossarea
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
3652 Posts |
Posted - 07/30/2005 : 14:02:00
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Thanks, it took me about 3 months to build it but a lot of the time was spent waiting for part deliveries.
It's the first time ever I'd done anything with tubes so I had no idea about how sensitive they were to long wires or how they can be 30% off the data from the datasheets. Had to spend maybe 2 weeks troubleshooting because of these things but in the end I was very pleased. |
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arcanon1313
Silver Member
USA
414 Posts |
Posted - 07/30/2005 : 22:14:40
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| I see that you did point to point wiring, how hard is making something with PTP wiring. (I plan on trying to etch a circut board first) |
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bossarea
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
3652 Posts |
Posted - 07/30/2005 : 22:31:37
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Yes, I used a strip board where I soldered wires where I needed connections. It looked great at first but then I started switching components around and after a while it became quite messy. The problems with strip boards or other prototyping boards are that there will be wires in every direction. With many components it is easy to connect something wrong (as I did several times).
In the amp I've just finished I took the tag strip approach. Except I didn't have any tag strips so I used another strip board where I soldered down connector pins and dremeled off most of the copper strips. All components are then connected to the pins across the full width of the board. The problem with tag strips comes when you have a lot of components. For a design with few components it is easy to create the layout and there will be few crossing wires.
I've recently bought the equipment needed to create proper PCBs so I will try that next. I can imagine that the problem with PCBs are when you find out that you need to add components that weren't initially in the design. My designs change all the time so I will probably suffer a bit from that. |
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eeone
Bronze Member
Yugoslavia
121 Posts |
Posted - 08/22/2005 : 01:16:48
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@bossarea did you design everything yourself, or did you use other material for reference (for both the amp and the box)? If, so can you share with us what did you use?
also, if it's not a secret, can you tell us on the overall expenses for the whole project?
thanks in advance!
cheers!  |
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boss freak
Gold Member
USA
663 Posts |
Posted - 08/22/2005 : 01:41:36
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| That's a damn fine looking amp! Good job on the cosmetics. I'd love to hear some samples. |
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bossarea
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
3652 Posts |
Posted - 08/22/2005 : 19:37:50
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Thanks guys, I finished number 2 this morning. Number 3 will be dynamite 
I designed everything. Most valve amps are very similar and there isn't anything revolutionary in my amp either. I used every resource I could find. "Valve Amplifiers" by Morgan Jones was a great help and I also visited ax84.com frequently.
The parts came to about �200. The face plate and the transformers came to �130 alone. |
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Ok, boys from the UK
