Bacon and Eggs amp build

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Simple, tasty and always satisfying. Tweed Deluxe build. Staying pretty true to the original but taking a few liberties to tighten it up without trying to make it into something else.

Mercury Magnetics transformers. Mostly Mojotone parts but Chinese Stainless Steel chassis because Mojotone was out of stock on chassis (theirs isn't stainless though). So I had to use different octal sockets due to the different punchout on the Chinese chassis. Luckily I had two matching pairs of ceramic sockets (probably 20+ years old) that fit so I used one pair for the power tubes and one of the others for the rectifier.
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Initial assembly and floor wiring done. Circuit board fitted and modified to allow for the OT bolts/nuts. This chassis being stainless steel meant I'm not modifying it. The circuit boards had to be positioned/drilled to use the existing chassis holes.
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Badass. I've been really close to buying a couple brownface 6G6A type heads on the verb - but what I really want is to do a build like that with 8/16 ohm transformer taps
 
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glpg80 said:
All I use is MM. They under spec their iron and it sounds great for high gain.
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I had a buddy go through his Deluxe reverb RI upgrading stuff and he replaced the transformers with Mercury. Thing sounded badass with his LP.
 
Check out this ‘self-lead’ just like the originals. Never seen this until this amp. Just one wire to the speaker jack.

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SpiderWars said:
Check out this ‘self-lead’ just like the originals. Never seen this until this amp. Just one wire to the speaker jack.

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That’s how old school radio dial AM radios worked back in the day. I’m into helping a lot of people in those groups too with radio restorations.
 
Smash said:
I think it is time to build your signature amp and call it "The Mustache"
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If I did it would be The 'Stache*.

My favorite amps are a Tweed Bassman for clean up to edge of breakup and a Marshall Superlead from there. Throw in a Vox AC30 every now and then. And that's all been done to death. I wouldn't ruin a perfectly good hobby by making it a profession. :cheers:

* - but nah 🤣

EDIT - just preamp ubes and pots left, getting close.
 
SpiderWars said:
If I did it would be The 'Stache*.

My favorite amps are a Tweed Bassman for clean up to edge of breakup and a Marshall Superlead from there. Throw in a Vox AC30 every now and then. And that's all been done to death. I wouldn't ruin a perfectly good hobby by making it a profession. :cheers:

* - but nah 🤣

EDIT - just preamp ubes and pots left, getting close.
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I didnt know that much about that side of things til recently when trying to nail some.edge of breakup type tones. The rabbithole is deep. But i have found the maz 18 to be the sound i am wanting. I am very excited to get one
 
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