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Gary Hodgkiss’ reborn radio

I love seeing projects like this (while not being keen to do it myself!). Check out the ‘Junior Pilot’ badge above the grille. “The planning took forever, and then when I fitted the chassis the interference was so bad I had to do it again. It looks bigger in the pictures, it was a proper […]

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Joris Kriesel’s SE-5a variant

“About two months ago I bought a chassis, switches, lots of other hardware at your store. I was very satisfied with the quality and started building. The plan was to use your British Overdrive schematic with some modifications: Standby switch became a switch between diode and EZ80 recifier valve, I added a switch to disconnect

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Ashley’s hi-fi amps

Not every Amp Maker customer is a distortion-hungry guitarist. The same valves and components can be turned to more peaceful ends. :) “Some time ago I purchased some board from you for my project, at the time you expressed an interest as to what I was making. Well they are finally finished, a pair of

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Aleksi’s 2-channel amp

Aleksi’s a very serial amp builder, and a regular over at www.ax84.com. This is his scratch-built 2-channel push-pull amp. It uses a modified Amp Maker chassis and is stuffed with turret boards. Aleksi is using the super-easy to work with PTFE (teflon) boards for sub-assemblies all around the amp. “Just wanted to send you a

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Barrie Tait’s reborn Ibanez

“The chassis is a burnt out Ibanez TB-15r. The amp is basically your SE-5a with a mod making C1 and C3 switchable – i.e. bright or dark. The other bits are a small ali box on top of the chassis. This is a valve vibracaster reverb circuit that incorporates a Brimar ECC82 valve and small

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Mark’s converted combo

Here’s an unloved solid-state amp that’s been given a new lease of life. In this case, Mark has used Amp Maker’s 36W transformer set and JJ valves to turn an old ValveState Marshall into a fire-breathing all-valve amp. Some jobs were clearly easier than others: “The output transformer fitted into the chassis without modification and

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Aleksi’s Princeton-ish combo

This Tweed Princeton-ish combo was a present that Aleksi made for his father. For the circuit, Aleksi used TB11 PTFE board along with Amp Maker transformers to make an amp that’s broadly similar to the Champ-based WF-55 amp kit. But following the vintage Princeton’s lead, it also has a simple tone control. It’s all mounted

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Andy Gray’s FireFly amp

The FireFly project was a very popular build at www.ax84.com (which became https://perpetualinnovation.us/MyBBDir/ some years ago). Andy used the Amp Maker 190-0-190V power transformer for his build, and kindly sent photos in to show the true point-to-point layout he came up with. Note that it has a switch for using 12AU7 for around 1W or

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Mike Parker’s reverb unit

The Fender 6G15 reverb unit is – in many ways – a full-blown amp which just happens to drive a reverb tank instead of a speaker. It uses two preamp valves, a power valve and a mains and output transformer, and Mike built just such a reverb unit using Amp Maker parts. “Finished the build

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