My NEW AMP being born

[horns666]

Very Nice dude, ..I hope it sounds as good as it looks.

It looks tits!!

[mountain dave]

Looks like your brother-in-law is pretty handy and is doing you a professional job. Give us a report as soon as you get to test drive it.

[StukaJU87]

Looks like your brother-in-law is pretty handy and is doing you a professional job. Give us a report as soon as you get to test drive it.

Will do. Should not be too long now.

Very Nice dude, ..I hope it sounds as good as it looks.

Me too. or else it'll be a waste of hard earned cash for me.:ROTF:

It looks tits!!

Thanks, Bill!

[Twisteramps]

Very cool Scott! $1200 isn't bad, when you consider he's using good parts (looks like mercury magnetic transformers, etc) - I'd bet he probably has a couple hundred bucks in there for his labor. Even if he builds the thing in 10 hours including debugging and burn in and biasing/etc, he's only making $20 or so an hour. I would bet he probably bought a Mojo or equivalent kit.

BTW, for previous posters who wanted to find out how much profit marshall makes... remember also that marshall doesn't sell directly. So what you pay at GC isn't what they get... Marshall sells at a discount to the music store or chain so when THEY sell it to you the music store can make a profit also.

Pete

[Infernal Death]

Me too. or else it'll be a waste of hard earned cash for me.:ROTF:

If it's not good sounding you can always use this amp as a door stopper and you know what ? Nobody on this earth will have a door stopper as nice as you have

Flo

[StukaJU87]

Very cool Scott! $1200 isn't bad, when you consider he's using good parts (looks like mercury magnetic transformers, etc) - I'd bet he probably has a couple hundred bucks in there for his labor. Even if he builds the thing in 10 hours including debugging and burn in and biasing/etc, he's only making $20 or so an hour. I would bet he probably bought a Mojo or equivalent kit.

BTW, for previous posters who wanted to find out how much profit marshall makes... remember also that marshall doesn't sell directly. So what you pay at GC isn't what they get... Marshall sells at a discount to the music store or chain so when THEY sell it to you the music store can make a profit also.

Pete

Pete, just to be clear, the total for parts was 1200. I am paying 1500 total for the amp. The 100 watt mojo kit is almost 1200 and that is NOT what he used. He ordered the head box seperately which was about 300 bux and I know he ordered the transformers and some other parts seperately because he prefers them over the ones that come in a kit or that Marshall is using in current reissues. Let's hope he made good decisions.

If it's not good sounding you can always use this amp as a door stopper and you know what ? Nobody on this earth will have a door stopper as nice as you have

Flo

I hope it does not come to that.:ROTF:

[j2379]

looks great few question, i know you said that the 800's lacked the gain u wanted. is that a mod you have to plan for ahead of time. or after you test drive it can u go back & mod it for more gain. i know they mod amps for more gain all the time but is there any advantage to building more gain into the amp ahead of time.

[Firebird V]

wow that is looking good scott. can't wait to hear it. i have a few cabs here that i would like to hear it through if you don't mind. i can bring them down or you can head up too. ttyl.

[StukaJU87]

<------------- I officially have no life.

looks great few question, i know you said that the 800's lacked the gain u wanted. is that a mod you have to plan for ahead of time. or after you test drive it can u go back & mod it for more gain. i know they mod amps for more gain all the time but is there any advantage to building more gain into the amp ahead of time.

You really do not have to plan ahead. I mean, we have a couple ideas in mind, but I really want to use the amp "as is" for a while and get to know it a bit. This way, if need be, I could also bounce ideas off Pete before we go in and start replacing parts and stuff.

wow that is looking good scott. can't wait to hear it. i have a few cabs here that i would like to hear it through if you don't mind. i can bring them down or you can head up too. ttyl.

I think it would be easier if I just brought the head up to you. I could come up after work one of these Saturdays.

[StukaJU87]

Another day, some more amp pics.

[toejam]

Kick ass!

[SpiralArchitect]

Hey man

thats awesome!, I really want to build an amp, however I think there would be a memorial thread for me....or not :/ because I'd touch something I wasn't spose to! hahaha

Man I want some crazy high gain Marshall clone, so I think the Splawn Nitro is what I'm after!

more pix more pix!

Chris

[StukaJU87]

Here are the latest batch of pics. I talked to Jeff last night and he said that some fo the resistors he was sent were the wrong value. The package was marked the right value, but he tests everything to be sure and they were wrong. Good thing he checks. He is guessing that I will have this amp on Thursday.

Any way, on to the pics.

[StukaJU87]

The amp is almost done. Still waiting on the power tubes and the logo.

[Firebird V]

sweet. can't wait to hear it.