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well. seven more days til i move...
ugh. taking forever,

the better half of a month

well most of you may have heard by now that i have bought a house...... what a relief.....
this brings some bad news and some good news. which do you want first?? well, bad news it is..
i wont be working on amps too much over the next month, i need to pack up shop and get prepared for the move. the good news is... i wont have to be crammed inside the tiniest space building these things anymore. i will be in close range of the drill press and all my fancy tools now. which means the possibility of more custom work. but thats not all....
the next bit of great news you ask....
glad you asked.
i have a recording studio in the new house that was built by the guys at the legendary greenhouse studios in vancouver b.c..... stoke factor = way up there.

this is a short list of things that i am looking for. for those of you that read this and happen to have a spare or one you dont want please contact me with your price.
-portable record player. you know like with the built in speaker... not talking about the big all in one units... just a little table top guy... i need it for the amp bench.

-book cases... tall ones... a matching pair. solid wood. fits lp's

-kitchen table with matching chairs. mid century? or 50's diner style. prefer removable center leaf.

-an espresso machine. so that i can have all you lovely peoples over for good times and nice warm drinks.

and another thing to look out for is..
2-300 watt bass head.
and
200 watt guitar lead head.... t.j. i'm nodding to you on this one.

cheers. i'll keep you updated

stoke just got a boner.

well unfortunately for me these babies have to stay in my warehouse until i move which shouldn't be to far away... but damn..... they look good.
so here is a little back story. i don't make my boxes not for my heads or cabs... thats right.. outsourcing. but heres the good news i don't take any profit on the cabs.. i get a deal. i pass it to you. i could make my cabs. i have the experience,knowledge and tools.... what i dont have is the space... for me to set up to make one would take hours... then hours to make it. if i could leave my jigs set up permanently then i would build em myself... but the way i see it is your not playing what it looks like outside.. your playing whats built inside....
so dont be hatin!
bad cell phone pic.
but just too stoked.

very unhappy

my shipments came yesterday...
missing 2 power transformers, and all my custom faceplates. so now what am i supposed to do?
i cant mount any components in their chassis as i always do transformers first.
and i can mount pots or anything as i need the face plates to be there.

i guess i can populate the boards, fine then. i'll start doing that stuff.

also kinda pissed that nobody at the suppliers headquarters is responding to my messages.
its about to get nasty!

guess what i got?

thats right! a vintage space echo! pretty neato.

in other news, once again my shipments are held in customs.
supposed to be delivered by tomorrow.
we'll see about that!
shitheads.

sorry for the hault in progress.

more parts coming sometimes shipping takes for ever. but soon. i have some problems i should be trying to figure out in the meantime.

harsh bummer.

well i finish up the highwhat. went through start up and what do you know no power to the filaments. so i checked around. try to find bad connections. none. so i check the voltages from the power transformer and whaddaya know? seems the winding for the 6.3v low power filament supply is faulty. ordered a new one.  hopefully that solves it.

working out plans for the reverb/vibrato unit right now. and looking at jcm800 schematics. i dont like that the pre amp and master were right next to each other. i always like it when the preamp and the master are distant from one another. i dunno why. just personal preference i guess. so looks like that could be in the near future. as well as another whitethrash. but back to my standard black/black skin. call it. "black metal" 

and a classic 18 watt brit sounding thing.

and someone ordered another princeton. thats all for now.