Customer amp gallery

Ideas. Inspiration. Weird. Wonderful.
Guitar amplifiers of every size and colour.

NOTE: the customer amplifiers shown below are a random selection from hundreds in the database. Refresh this page to see a new random batch and don’t forget to bookmark any that you might want to have another look at!

SE-5a

Some customers prefer to build the amp into a ready-made donor head. Here, Aidan has put the SE-5a circuit into

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SE-5a

Another vote for natural pine with danish oil finishing, from Tim and his SE-5a. Tim used a simple L-pad attenuator

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Other

Auckland-based Allan is yet another skilled cabinet maker. His cabs let the wood speak for itself, and the dovetail details

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P1800

Jonas has completed his 18W amp in both PP-18 and SL-18 forms. “The cabinet (inspired by the Marshall smallbox) was

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P1800

“I made up your P1800 kit and it worked, wow! After listening blind to a bunch of speaker demos on

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WF-55

“Just to let you know I’ve completed the WF-55 kit, and included the VVR. It was fun to do and

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N5X

“Well I finally finished the N5X amp I bought off you a year ago. It foundered unfinished for a good

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Double Six

“Here are a couple of images attached of the finished amp. Had a great time building the amp and have

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WF-55

“Here are some photos of my WF-55, now that I’ve finished the cabinet, and tweaked the amp a little. The

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SE-5a

Here’s another builder using car model lettering to create a logo. In this case, Chris found the ‘CKS’ letters at

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SE-5a

“So I made up a case but I am wondering what to do about the design of the “empty” part.

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WF-55

“Just a note to say thanks for the kit. It was all too easy, your instructions were most excellent. Have

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N5X

“My shiny new combo 🙂 All good. I’m running an Tungsol E34 and a Mullard 12AX7 into a G12H30. Tried

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“I have included my amp pics that you can include in gallery if you wish. It’s based on a DR

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WF-55

“Here’s a few shots of my little 55. I used an old bread box, modified it a bit size-wise etc,

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Scratchbuilt

🙂 One man with a serial amp building habit, Aleksi has again used multiple PTFE boards for different parts of

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SE-5a

Dave’s half-stack has a lot of nice touches. The vent grille – from a car accessory shop – is angled

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P1800

“Thanks for all, Here is a pic of the finish amp (sounds great). I made the cab myself.”

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N5X

“Here are a couple of pics of the amp I previously bought off you (N5X). I am running the KT66

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SE-5a

“The SE-5a now has a VVR installed and a switchable headphone output (also used to drop the signal low enough

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N5X

“Many thanks again for a great kit which I enjoyed building and is sounding great! “I have attached a couple

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P1800

“Firstly I just wanted to apologise for ordering all the parts for a p1800 kit even though you’re not selling

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Double Six

“The box is a Peavey Studio Pro 1×12 cabinet. It covered up part of your logo so I covered all

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SE-5a

“Well… I finished the amp, and as promised some photos. More by good luck than anything, the SE-5a was pretty

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P1800

“Just to update you on my head cab, now wax finished to antique pine. For my 65th birthday my family

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WF-55

“Got the wee amp finished… Hope you like my finished job.” John’s come up with an unusual way to house

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Scratchbuilt

“Thank you very much for all your components and your advice. I finally finished my amp and it sounds pretty

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SE-5a

“I’ve sent you few pics of my amp, finished. It’s built in an old military woodbox. Good tone, like JTM45

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Scratchbuilt

“It’s a variant of an Ampeg Heritage B15 with 6SL7 preamp tubes and a 6L6GC output pair. I built it

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WF-55

For his WF-55, Peter slightly repositioned some of the components to make it easier to fit into his tweed finished

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WF-55

“Thanks for the parts that you sent. I read the comments regarding static damaging the MOSFET so I kept in

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Scratchbuilt

“It is a tight fit. It’s a two channel, 100W 4xEL34 head; a Carvin Legacy 1 (Steve Vai signature amp)

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N5X

“I’ve attached a photo of my fully completed N5X amplifier. I built the cabinet from pine furniture board using finger

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P1800

For JE’s 1×12 18W combo, he opted to adapt the layout so that the valves hung downwards – i.e. at

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SE-5a

“I reckoned that it was about time that I let you know how I got on with my SE-5a build.

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SE-5a

There are only so many ways to mount an amp chassis inside a combo cab, but Alan took an unusual

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Other

“I finished this build must be nigh on 18-24 mths ago and it has been through a few revisons since.

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P1800

“Wonderful amp, great success. I’m very happy, a truly wonderful project, great design. The only problem is some of the

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SE-5a

“Here are some pictures of my SE-5a head and speaker cab. Had great fun making it, with your email support.

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SE-5a

A classic combo style in an eye-catching colour combination. Ricardo has used a smooth red levant/rexine style covering, with white

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Scratchbuilt

David from Brazil scratchbuilt a Champ using the WF-55 manual as his build guide. “Hi Barry. This is the guy

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Double Six

“Hi Barry. I built my ‘Double Six’ a little while ago, and have used it with both the 6V6 and

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SE-5a

“It’s been five years or more since I purchased an SE-5a kit from you and, thanks to my incredible Dad

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SE-5a

Don’t try this at home! Richard had a completed SE-5a amp chassis and couldn’t wait to try it out with

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Double Six

Wim was the first customer to build the Double Six. “I’ve just finished the amp. Took me a while, waiting

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Scratchbuilt

David started with a rustic box and a cassette player case. It’s now a stereo amp with 6V6 output valves.

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WF-55

“It’s a couple of years since I build my amp, anyway, I have now recorded a clip and put it

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Other

Andy was one of the first builders of the PP-36 and took the plunge even before I had finalised the

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SE-5a

“Thought I would let you know how the amp looks now it’s all finished! Thanks a lot for all your

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SE-5a

“Here’s a couple of pix of the amp! It sounds beautiful! Thanks for all your help over the last few

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Scratchbuilt

At first glance, Scott’s amp looks like an SE-5a, but inside is a modified 18W circuit. Using the same transformers

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SE-5a

“I am absolutely delighted with the finished article and the sound of the amp. Much better than I’d expected and

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Scratchbuilt

“I bought a Double Six power transformer and a Double Six output transformer, and I used the Double Six schematic

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P1800

“Here are some pics I took of my finished PP-18 amp. I had a blast building it and it was

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N5X

“I finally have some pictures of the N5X I built earlier this year. It was a challenge, and there were

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WF-55

Bizarrely, the usually competent courier for Amp Maker kits advised me that Wayne’s kit was about to be returned to

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Scratchbuilt

“I’ve tweaked a two channel amp for my friend. See the prototype picture attached and the final enclosure: his own

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SE-5a

“Over the holidays I had a little time to finish my amp. Now everything is done and I have a

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SE-5a

“I bought an SE-5 kit from you nearly a year and a half ago. I had it built within a

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