OT: Show us your DIY tube amps

[juniper]

Awesome work guys, Alan your wiring and soldering skills are excellent!!! My vintage Pilot amps wiring, doesn't look that good...I bet they sound very nice.... I love tubes with my M19's.

[analog addict]

Thanks. However, my meager skills are nothing compared to my mentor. I've had the good fortune to hook up locally with a legend in the business, Dennis J Had, founder of Cary Audio, and in the HAM arena, Dentron and Ameritron. I've been helping him get a little boutique single ended amp business off the ground, and he is building some amazing amps.

Here's my amp next to some of his current work...




And this is what real soldering looks like.....






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And some better pix of some of his current line up...







And for the first time anywhere, the Fire Bottle...









Dennis builds these amps himself, and sells them through E-Bay for $1200-$1500, a bargain if you think about it. It would be like buying a set of 604s build personally by Alvis Ward, or a Paragon carved and wired by JB Lansing. Anyway, if anyone has any interest in these amp, let me know, and I can point you in the right direction

[Phil-G]

here's an odd bit.

If you can't read the number on a tube, rub it on top of your head. The oil in your hair makes the number more readable. Taught to me by an old TV guy back in the 60's when I was a teenager teaching myself TV repair....

No clue why it works but it does...

might need to find a tube of brylcreem to make that work any more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6F4GtyRfto

[Alien_Shore]

And for the first time anywhere, the Fire Bottle...

Nice EL84 SET design. Clean & simple.

[RonSSS]

Mine.

PP300B, Citation II opt, Altec power and chokes, transformer coupled.
28W RMS



Ron

[Alien_Shore]

nice, Ron! That is a sweet-looking 300B.

Alan, what kind of trannies are on that amp of yours? I can't tell from the pic.

[alancohen]

Alan, what kind of trannies are on that amp of yours? I can't tell from the pic.

Which Alan?

[Alien_Shore]

A very simple 6DJ8 - 2A3 build....



This was only 3-4 years in the making. I'm a bit slow in getting projects off the ground when I'm breaking new ground. It was worth the wait. Believe it or not it powers the Simplex/M19 stacks and the 604s with ease. All of 2.5 WPC...

Build thread here....

Sorry...this one.

[RonSSS]

nice, Ron! That is a sweet-looking 300B.

Thank you!

Ron

[alancohen]

Sorry...this one.

They look like painted chokes to me.