“It’s been five years or more since I purchased an SE-5a kit from you and, thanks to my incredible Dad rescuing it from the depths of my wardrobe, I thought you might like to see the finished article in all its glory! Could this be something of a gestation period record? As I’m sure you …
“I used the SE-5a standard for 8 years with Fat,Bright and EQ switches. The cab is one of Chris Uff’s. The front and rear panels are still the originals sprayed ivory white, letraset and sharpie, then as protection and an aged look a very thin spray of varnish. I nearly called her Green Breaker because …
“It’s finished! And it sounds great, I’m so pleased with it! Cab was a self build and my first ever effort, 18mm ply – fender brown oxblood grill cloth – top mount style just to be a bit different from my other (bought) amps which are front mounted! Managed to find the top vents on …
“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 …
“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 …
“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 …
“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 …
“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 …
“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.”
“Just thought that I would give you an update, I have now finished building a case, photos attached. I decided to go for an old hi-fi look, as you can probably make out from one of the photos I made the case out of the remains of my parents old front door which gave me …
“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 …
“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 …
“Here is a picture of the amp I made out of the kit, fitted with one Eminence Copperhead 10-in (I wanted to keep it not too big) with a detuned cabinet design. It is has a nice clean sound at low gain setting and sort of grindy edge at hi gain nice for rock. I …
“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.”
“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 …
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