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“I would like to show you some pictures of the SE-5A I made for my friend ‘FINU’. My amps are called ‘Pilgrim’ in honour of an edition of ‘Lorient Festival’. “The tolex I used to make this amp is a Marshall snakeskin style with Marshall-style levant black. The speaker is a WGS Reaper 55Hz 12-inch. […]
I don’t know how many guitar amp builders there are in Mongolia, but there’s at least one. He describes some of the complications below! “About the side shape: I realized that to get what I wanted the combo cab would have to be rather tall and ‘thin’ making it prone to topple over under the
“I send you some pictures of the amp finished, you can publish them if you want. It is a 2×12 combo, the furniture is made of spruce wood. I built it myself. Long ago, I transformed a Laney LC15R using pine wood and 12-inch speaker, but the SE-5a 5W has been much better in both
“Thought I would let you know how the amp looks now it’s all finished! Thanks a lot for all your help. I’m really happy with the outcome, it looks and sounds great!” Here’s a link to construction pictures: www.icloud.com/photostream/#ABGY8gBYjTI2B
“I just finished my SE-5a which I bought a couple of weeks ago. I decided to make a head and cabinet in matching style, see pictures. I would like to thank you for the great kit, easy to build and plays real well. “The logo is home made, it is build up from white plastic
“I had a spare 15W output transformer from you, and now thanks to the toroidal power transformer, I decided I was going to build an SE-10a into my current 10-inch combo cab with a spare EL34. “What to do now with all the SE-5a bits…? I had an old Stagg 15W Bass combo that wasn’t
“I was playing through the SE-5a last night. I’ve started playing quite a lot now as I actually have a gig looming (first for 15 years). I’m getting married next year and me and some old band mates are regrouping to make a row. It was all the excuse I needed to spend silly money
Here’s a very distinctive “Blood and Custard” finish. :D “Speaker is an Eminence 300watt that came in second hand for £25, trying to find a 15” 25watt speaker proved fruitless. It sounds huge – very different from a 12 or 10 but suits my slide and lap steel down to the ground. No cone break-up
The SL-18 ships with chickenhead knobs as standard – cost effective and easy to read at a distance – but Knut’s one of a number of customers who prefer Marshall-style knobs for that classic ‘plexi look’. “I finished the build on Wednesday evening, and what a great sound. It was my first build and it
When Andy built his PP-36 amp, he called it the Maztone Chief, so it seems quite right that his SL-18 amp is called the Maztone Brave. This amp is housed in one of Chris’ 1×12 combo cabinets, and Andy’s opted for cream chickenhead knobs (soon to be available at Amp Maker). “My next project build
“Just thought I’d send a picture of my finished amp. Well pleased I bought it. The 2×12 is for just ease of transport and to not look to big to the Mrs in my lounge. I used two greenbacks with two jack sockets so I can have 1×12 8-ohms or the 2×12 at 16-ohms.”
“I’ve sent you few pics of my amp, finished. It’s built in an old military woodbox. Good tone, like JTM45 (my other amp). Good to play at home.”
“As I mailed you in October; I finished during my Christmas holiday the SE-5a project. Here are the pictures. The head enclosure and cab are covered with brown and bordeaux tolex. “I used silver piping and Marshall-style cane grill cloth. The cab is filled with one 12-inch Celestion G12H30. And , of course, I needed
“Amp is all built and sounds great. I’m using it through a 2×12 Basson cab loaded with OEM Eminence speakers, and there is loads of top end available – a Telecaster bridge pickup requires the treble to be turned down a lot :). “I put the case into an 18mm pine box finished with Danish
“Just thought I’d send you a picture of the finished amp. I am really pleased with the quality of the kit you sent, and the build instructions were excellent. I am already contemplating another build to restore an old Vox AC4 cabinet I have acquired. “The speaker cab is an old ‘disco’ type cab that
“This is my SE-5a with a cab from Chris Uff. Lovely handwork. Switch on right side is a fat switch (1uF and 22uF caps), the mini toggle by the middle, is, fittingly enough, the tone stack bypass. No problem with space, and I only needed to drill through the front plate, as the chassis has
“The SE-5a now has a VVR installed and a switchable headphone output (also used to drop the signal low enough to use the amp as a preamp for my Musicman 112RD Sixty Five). Now I get a decent valve preamp (Musicman is a horrible solid state preamp stage) and the sweet Musicman output.”
What’s better than an SE-5a? Two of them in one box! Charles explains:”Despite it’s simplicity and beauty, for me there were several good reasons to ‘butcher’ and heavily modify the SE-5a. The first is quite simply, by my very nature, I cannot resist opening things up, seeing out it works, and wonder what happens if
“Just thought I’d send a few photos of my completed SE-5a. The actual build itself was a doddle, had it working in about a day, but I’ve been busy since then, so the enclosure has taken a good while to finish. Obviously, the exterior doesn’t really match the British character of the circuit, but
“Another update on my modified SE-5a: I finally got the front and rear panels machined and fitted. So next up is powder coat and I’m thinking a vintage cream kind of colour. “It’s been a massive learning curve but I’ve finally got a light at the end of the tunnel. I installed a second preamp