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Todd’s chunky combo

“I got in contact with Chris and he built me a Chunky Combo in black with white piping – see attached. I have to say, I enjoyed building the kit as much as I do playing through the completed combo! It’s loud enough, particularly with that G12H 30W speaker, that I can really annoy the

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Jon’s SE-5a with VVR

“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.”

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Graham’s SE-5a combo

“The carcass is made from 18mm birch ply that has the top dovetailed and the bottom lapped as I originally had it taller but decided to square it off. The tolex is black Marshall elephant grain glued with PVA and the grill cloth is 1960s style grey mottled Marshell style. The handle is Marshall style

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Dave’s brassy SE-5a

“Just to let you know that I’ve posted a few more pictures of my SE5a build if you want them for the site. And when posting them I realised it is coming up to two years old now! Can’t believe how quickly it has passed – other amps have come and gone (including a rather

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John’s sheepish SE-5a

“I’ve attached a photo of my completed ‘Grizzle’ amp (an SE-5a in sheep’s clothing – literally). I constructed a case from pine with a detachable bottom so that the amp is locked in, but easily accessible when I need to show off its innards to friends. “The case was more difficult than the amp, mainly

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Kare’s modded SE-5a

“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

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Charles’ doubled-up SE-5a!

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

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Steve’s SE-5a and blog

  “I built the amp a while ago but have only got round to taking photos etc. recently. I’m loving it so far; and it loves my Les Paul!”For more info on his build and many pedal builds, see here: http://sj-effects.com/2012/10/12/ampmaker-se-5a/

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Tim’s imagined SE-5a

“So I made up a case but I am wondering what to do about the design of the “empty” part. I sent a picture of the actual thing and then a bunch of other ideas that my wife and I had fun playing around with using Adobe Fireworks. “Thanks, I have wanted a class A

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Timo Heiskala’s SE-5a head

“Finally, my SE-5a is ready and it sounds absolutely fantastic! I am pretty familiar with electronics but this was my first amplifier and my first project involving any kind of valves. I took a shortcut with the head and speaker cabinets, I made them from grey plywood and just painted the edges to match but

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Richard Hirst’s SE-5a

Here’s another vote for red tolex, this time used in combination with contrasting black tolex for the cabinet’s front panel and gold plexi for SE-5a’s control panel. “The cab is ply, dovetail joints and screened. The first tolex attempt was disappointing. I chose white which was OK, but I wasn’t happy with the corners and

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