Scratchbuilt

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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