Larry let's see some work in process. Or parts? Station?

[novosibir]

Cheers ('prost' in German if I remember correctly)

Prost is correct in Germany, especially valid in Bavaria, where they drink their beer out of 1 Liter (more than a quarter gallon) beer mugs

 

[psychodave]

Ive never seen a bonafide rockstar playing a Larry and I bet if you ask one about a larry they would say Larry who? And no I don't consider John Schaffer a bonafide rockstar sorry. Oh the dino guy too

I think Iced Earth is an incredible band. The tone on Alive in Athens is one of my favorite. Schaffer is a great player. He’s a rockstar is he’s making a real living playing guitar and putting out albums.

https://youtu.be/Cv4t_S4Tnxk

The picking on this song is nuts

https://youth.be/hC1r2Yxo4wA

 

[novosibir]

Ive never seen a bonafide rockstar playing a Larry and I bet if you ask one about a larry they would say Larry who? And no I don't consider John Schaffer a bonafide rockstar sorry. Oh the dino guy too

Hmm... a bonafide rockstar? What about a blues-rock star? Joe Bonafide

 

[SBlue]

I’m fucking loving the British Purist! Already loved the Dino since September 2018.
The more I play the BRitish Purist the more I like it!
I was expecting just a new, absurdly well made, reliable old Marshall on this amp.
Boy I was wrong! This thing is just fucking fantastic! The sustain and harmonic content of this amp is just out of this world!
There are three high gain manufacturers that do make me wanna play guitar all day long. And every single player that came to the studio and used them said exactly the same thing.
All the Cameron modded Marshalls, the Wizard Metal and the Dino.
From the mid gain, or more vintage sounding drive, the Frank Levi modded 2203 with the #34, the Wizard VC100, all three original Plexis I own(and they are some of the greatest I’ve heard) and the three Dumble modded Fenders do it for me.
I don’t think Fortin would be able to make anything as great as any of the amps mentioned above. Nor in build quality, originality or tone. At least not in this incarnation.
But yeah, just by the pics you can tell Larry’s work from Mikes.
And fuck, Larry’s amps would look even better if they would look as good as they sound!
Oh... by the way, I’m already planning the deposit for a Rock Wizard.

 

[maddnotez]

I want to see a work in progress...

This might happen on Wantsday

... and at least hear the wait time.

And this maybe on Hearsday

AND how long the person waited for the amp to be shipped. That's all.

Where is your benefit of knowing about this?

It would look a lot better for Larry to post that.

What if I don't want to look still better than I already do?

But I don't care. It would only help him.

No! Quite the opposite would be the case.
If I'd post photos of an amp in progress, then you's see my circuits and wiring w/o deliberate mistakes, you'd see the board assembled with the correct part's values aso.
You'd see something, what's quite different to that on the photos, I'm showing on my Facebook business page.

Have you really been so naive, thinking that I'd show my real circuits to the entire world and this up into each detail?
Sorry for disappointing you.

At this point I really don't care. A week ago I had respect for Larry. Before the childish shit. Now it has dwindled. Larry is making himself look like a fool.

You make me sad

He has not shown professionalism in my opinion.

In other words: I have not shown that, what others have expected from me.
But has anyone asked himself, whether not only my amps are different to others, but maybe also my thinking might be different to your?
Drive down your expections to others, then you can minimize your disappointments.
By any means I'm myself, not shaped by anyone, not programmed by school and education, to fit into the matrix.
Take me as I am, or simply keep off - now I don't care

But small batch production is FAR more efficient. Do three boards, assemble three chassis, etc.

Never ever. Efficiency isn't my goal. Finally dig it!
Quality is my goal. Best sounds possible. Highest reliability and longevity.
This isn't possible with "three at once", because your concetration will be splitted (divided) by three

 

[scottosan]

Considering that an "Engineer' can easily pull in 100k a year in the US. That's $48.07 an hour. Still cheaper than a typical tech bench fee @$75. I think anyone that knows of Larry in the tech world knows he'd run circles around your neighborhood amp tech, but hey, for the sake of this game let's keep him at the lower. Since we aren't talking PCBs or off the shelf cabinets, chassis, faceplates or boards, it it unreasonable at a minimum due to the complexity of the circuit as well as the attention to detail, that on the end it would take no less than 2+ weeks to complete an amp? And I suspect it's even more. That said, we are at $3846 even before factoring in parts. Which at least in America would be1200-1500. Again very conservative estimates. We not talking about monkeys populating PCBs here.

Very obvious that you're one with some insight and business knowledge, as opposed to most guys here on this board.

I'd like to add for the in business concerns uneducated, that I as a one-man-company not only have to solder and hence can't do this 8 hours a day.
Why? Because at any time, solder is out

Some more concretely: Besides building my amps I have again & again to check my stock of components, I have to place orders, have to reply to emails of people requesting this & that, of corse have to write sometimes a few words in a forum, have phone calls - then people are visiting me for checking out my amps and this not only once every year AND have you considered that about all that what I'm doing to build and finish an amp, I couldn't download the "how to do" from internet - there must have been a time, as I've all figured out, where to place the tubes, how to arrange the components onto the board, how to route the entire wiring, aso. aso.

Ok now you know, that there's and MUST BE some time for doing further R&D and you can't imagine, how much ideas and even finished concepts of amps I still do have, not only in my head, but already on my hard disk, waiting for realisation (please don't tell this to MF, otherwise he might start emailing me again) - so tell me, how many hours every day average I have left over, to be definitely productive with building a particular amp?

scottosan has guessed 2 weeks for building one amp. If he'd be able to build an amp within 2 weeks (except my Wrecky 35) after my given criterions, then I'd have a job for him what presumably will be better paid as his current job. If I'd try to finish an amp within 2 weeks, then I'd have to skip any sleep during this time and I'd also have to skip any time together with my girl friend. No way to at least still have an half hous left over every day for simply playing guitar

My 2 weeks was most conservative for a basic amp. But was trying to make my point that even at such a short build time, a true basic single custom amp would not be overpriced . Your amps not being basic obviously take longer

 

[Monomyth]

Low supply / high demand = $$$

 

[skullfxr]

Low supply / high demand = $$$

Exactly. He is in control of the curve and I think he really knows what he is doing.

 

[Speeddemon]

Low supply / high demand = $$$

Exactly. He is in control of the curve and I think he really knows what he is doing.

Add the fact that the resale value is akin buying a new Rolex; chances are you can sell it for more right of the bat.
That's how high the demand seems.

Unfortunately as you may know, this is less so the case for Fryette, even as they're nicely built amps, but resale value is ~1/3rd or so of new price.

 

[rstites]

Considering that an "Engineer' can easily pull in 100k a year in the US. That's $48.07 an hour. Still cheaper than a typical tech bench fee @$75. I think anyone that knows of Larry in the tech world knows he'd run circles around your neighborhood amp tech, but hey, for the sake of this game let's keep him at the lower. Since we aren't talking PCBs or off the shelf cabinets, chassis, faceplates or boards, it it unreasonable at a minimum due to the complexity of the circuit as well as the attention to detail, that on the end it would take no less than 2+ weeks to complete an amp? And I suspect it's even more. That said, we are at $3846 even before factoring in parts. Which at least in America would be1200-1500. Again very conservative estimates. We not talking about monkeys populating PCBs here.

There's a reason why the only two builders I know of in the US with actual engineering pedigrees left the building world to go back to work in the industry. I once ran the math on what I'd think it'd take to build amps and decided that if everything completely worked out and a made it as a professional builder working full time, I could realistically look to make about 80% of what I make in industry.....also with the loss of all my benefits!

Note that engineer makes $50/hr in take home but is costing the company about $60/hr with total compensation, and will bill out at about $200/hr for projects. (The overhead costs and nonbillable hours, means this isn't an exorbitant "upcharge" if you work through the accounting. Things like all those accounting costs are billable but have to be paid somewhere.)

Anyhow, if Larry can sell enough of his amps at that ~$6k price to maintain the lifestyle he wants, then good for him. That's a pretty special niche though. Most of the boutique amps seem to sell in the $3-4k range, which is well above off-the-shelf of course, but quite a bit below that Larry price.

 

[panhead]

I cant remember the number but Soldano SLO`that have been sold since 89 is low compared to most production amps. I would bet Larry amp is way lower.

 

[rstites]

I thought someone said something like 3000 SLO's.

 

[Jeff Hilligan]

The one guitar amp builder who..oh ya builds electrical stuff for fighter jets...and oh ya a highly educated engineer
Randall Aiken

 

[Goat]

Name: William Badass
Alias: Krull
Location: Death Valley
Occupation: "Giving it back 10 fold" and "Trolling Amp Manufacturers for fun"

 

[Goat]

... quite as I always did during my entire life. Thank you!

But still something for tonight.
A DINO 939 in progress - in this case outside on my terrasse, what during summer I often do, me just with swimming trunks, under the sun - and working



Some time later:



And before it will go to the customer, still some IP protection:



Enough of my bench for February.
Will be continued in March

A super fine machine! If you don't mind my asking, Larry... where are you getting those LCR capacitors?

 

[novosibir]

A super fine machine!

Thank you

If you don't mind my asking, Larry... where are you getting those LCR capacitors?

I've always had a good nose for the approximate time, when a manufacturer intends to discontinue the one or other component, which is or might be important for my builds, to keep their quality and performance. Yes, I literally smell this.

So I've already always buyed huge amounts of those components, where I've felt, that they'd be discontinued soon in the future.

As I've heard of LCR that they've discontinued the production of this particular 50-50/500 electrolytic can cap I've quickly buyed the entire remaining stock of this can cap of all distributors I knew of, what have been more than 600 pcs. at that time. I still do have some of it in stock, but don't sell any of it. I already got requests of people who were willing to pay up to 50 Euro/ea. for 6 pcs. for restoring their old Marshall, but I always refuse. They are exclusively for my own amps.


And there are so many other examples, where I've buyed huge stocks of components, or NOS iron for building my transformers, or NOS tubes

To disclose just one fact: My stock of NOS preamp tubes currently is 700 pcs. whereof still almost 400 pcs. are NOS Tungsram ECC83's of the 60', the 70' and the early 80'

 

[novosibir]

Because it's fitting to this theme, here your post from the topic:
https://www.rig-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=209253&p=2288362#p2288362

Placing a large deposit on an item with a wait time that exceeds the payment protection limit is ballsy move. I wouldn't do it, but then I don't gamble. As far as builders go, I think they should refrain from taking deposits on builds. If a builder cannot handle the costs of production, you shouldn't be in business. Just my opinion.

My labor is another story... I would collect a 'promise to purchase' payment of $600.00 / applied to the final balance. I base this on a $15.00 per hour/40 hour bench period. If the amplifier cannot be delivered on time, the custom would receive a discount equal to 50% of the promisary payment. If the buyer backs-out, the promisary payment is non-refundable. Something like this anyway. One thing I would not do, is ask consumers to finance my business.

I'm not asking for half up front or even full payment up front (Fortin!) by placing an order...
... I'm postulating ONLY 1/3 of the price as down payment by placing an order, to make the order valid.

And this 1/3 of the price is about the costs of the items & components required for building this particular amps.

Sure I could ask for less like you've suggested and from the financial aspect this definitely wouldn't be a problem for me.
But would it be fair to my customers, to handle my calculation then the way other companies are doing, who calculate their interest rates of their bank loans into their prices?

 

[skullfxr]

To disclose just one fact: My stock of NOS preamp tubes currently is 700 pcs. whereof still almost 400 pcs. are NOS Tungsram ECC83's of the 60', the 70' and the early 80'

That is incredibly awesome, holy shit. And here I am proud of my 10 NOS Mullard ECC83's. Lol. I have about 200 unused tubes,but maybe 50 are either NOS or VOS that are rated good. I do like old Fender tube amps, and am proud of my collection OD VOS/NOS Sylvania's, GE and Jan 6L6's.

 

[skullfxr]

To disclose just one fact: My stock of NOS preamp tubes currently is 700 pcs. whereof still almost 400 pcs. are NOS Tungsram ECC83's of the 60', the 70' and the early 80'

That is incredibly awesome, holy shit. And here I am proud of my 10 NOS Mullard ECC83's. Lol. I have about 200 unused tubes,but maybe 50 are either NOS or VOS that are rated good. I do like old Fender tube amps, and am proud of my collection OD VOS/NOS Sylvania's, GE and Jan 6L6's.

 

[panhead]

I will leave himself to his own deal/business. He can do as he chooses.

... quite as I always did during my entire life. Thank you!

But still something for tonight.
A DINO 939 in progress - in this case outside on my terrasse, what during summer I often do, me just with swimming trunks, under the sun - and working



Some time later:



And before it will go to the customer, still some IP protection:



Enough of my bench for February.
Will be continued in March

Looks like it 38 degrees there at 3:00 pm?