Scratchbuilt amplifiers (not kits)

Mike Howson's Princeton with VVR

"Hope you are keeping well. The Princeton was finally finished 3 to 4
weeks ago. I've attached a few photos as I thought you may like to see the end result. In the amp are a selection of your parts - PT, some of the
Switchcraft jack sockets, the turret board, orange drops, valve sockets,
chicken head knobs, valves, and probably a few other things I've forgotten.

"It all took very much longer than planned, but has worked out well and
sounds very good. It may be smaller than the SE-5A combo I built, but it
still hardly qualifies as light!"

Very pretty combo and I really like the details - including the engraving of the Terry Pratchett quote on the back. Mike also added VVR - a circuit for reducing the amp's power output by lowering the power supply voltage.

Aleksi Sandqvist's 6V6 amp

Using Amp Maker's 0-190-275V mains TX and 18W output TX, Aleksi has built another amp from scratch. Once again, hes also used the PTFE (teflon) board to quickly make up small boards.

"I built an amp during the Summer with a parallel 12AX7 (bright and dark voicings) driving an EF86 with a pair of 6V6s in the PA. Quite versatile with independent Bass and Treble controls later in the amplifier."

Aleksi does it again!

One man with a serial amp building habit, Aleksi has again used multiple PTFE boards for different parts of the circuit. It's another very busy amp chassis.

"I attach a few pics of my latest build. It still needs some tweaking with the reverb and the power control, but it's 99% done. After giving away my last amp with 12ax7 / ef86 I wanted one for myself.

"Aleksi's trademark is using an EF86 in the middle of the preamp (compared to vintage Vox amps that used them as the amp's first stage). "The amp has a 12ax7 driving an ef86 (surprise!!) into LTPI into push-pull 6V6. It also has a Belton digital reverb module (under the turret board) along with output power control." The latter uses the Amp Maker 0-190-275V mains transformer.

As you can see, Aleksi's another fan of the Tokai Love Rock.