Because I’m too cheap to pay 120,000nt for a good guitar amp in Taiwan.
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LOL, that’s not building “from scratch”, it’s the equivalent to painting by numbers. If you were actually building it from scratch it would cost significantly less than that. Still, must be nice to have the free time and budget to play around with it.
It kinda is, I mean the only way I can do it from less scratch is wind the transformers myself, or make the tubes myself, and neither are really possible for a small shop to do.
Many of the parts actually come from the electronic stores near Guanhua.
Nobody’s making a Twin Reverb kit at this time…
I don’t really have the budget myself to do this, doing it for someone else as a job.
It isn’t.
Any number of them available.
So what was the point of this statement? You’re saying your customer is too cheap?
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You’d have the time too if you didn’t spend it being miserable and toxic on an internet forum pissing on other peoples projects. Anything productive you can bring to the table?
Show us how you can do better for less.
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I don’t know… maybe he can upgrade the RAM or SSD on a Macbook or something. It’s not really beyond my ability to deal with SMD that is underfilled to the hilt, it’s just that they require high dollar equipment, and some trial and error with very expensive circuit boards to do.
I mean it seems all the toxic people are highly skilled and looks down on the little thing I do, like wiring/building tube amps which is simple as heck. So I really declined to write any rebuttal because they might just be electronics experts who are unimpressed.
Doesn’t matter what others think - I want to hear about the guitar amp build. Nothing else.
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I mean I’m waiting on the PT/OT/Choke/Reverb driver. I need to get it wired up, tested, working, but first I need to cut the necessary holes in the chassis (which I got a metal supplier to bend up, had to weld the sides as I have no idea how to tell them to build an open end steel box). I need to cut the holes/etc before I do anything else as I got to paint them first, and then I’d wire it up and hope for the best (and nothing explodes).
Once that’s all done, it’s a simple matter of building up the cabinets. Whole thing is going to weight more than 30kg so it’s going to be a separate head/speaker cabinet. I got some Fender tweed wraps and speaker grills to go with this.
Let’s see the welds!
Have you tried “Please build an open end steel box.”?
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I would have had to weld the side regardless… They’re not going to do that for me.
It’s going to get painted anyways.
I doubt their input or discussion is going to be motivated too much by (1) calling them “toxic” and (2) describing their kind of daily work as easy as fuck and lastly (3) describing and decided what they do as “simple as heck”
I suggest more humility and genuine curiosity, a polite approach and less thinking you might know it all and you might get more polite feedback from those who can help and would like such exchanges.
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I want to hear about how America is making it more difficult to build amps in prisons and why Walmart doesn’t employ blind greeters.
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No you don’t, please dont troll in this forum especially a few minutes after I tried to make a polite post to @Taiwan_Luthiers .
This is not the politics forum where this kind of post might get a pass or be ignored.
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Sure, but let’s not assume I read your post. 
I had not.
Don’t care, your derailing the thread the next step is thowing this in temp/flame and then I guess if you won’t give us a break I’ll have a discussion in the moderator forum.
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Stupid question: How dangerous is this?
I’ve always seen warning about not messing with the inside of a guitar amp due to the high voltages involved.
It’s why capacitors have resistors parallel to it, and you unplug it and wait a while before doing anything. I’ll probably include test points outside the amp to make biasing easy, no need to work on it while it’s on.
It’s not the only reason, not sure whether it’s the main reason either.
https://www.quora.com/Why-would-you-place-a-capacitor-parallel-to-a-resistor
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