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Since it's my birthday and all. The birthday fairies granted me my wish!!!!!
I can put the costings up for anyone who is interested. But that is all for now.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...7a1898056b.jpg
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That looks like fun :)
Oh cool, was wondering when you would have a go at building an amp, hey Happy Birthday mate!!!!
Hope it all goes well.
ooooh tasty, my fav speaker cab has a jensen Falcon in it, great clean tones
My little Legacy amp has a Jensen C10Q speaker in it, I swapped out the stock speaker for the C10Q and it really made a big difference in tone, Jensen speakers are great ones, if I could find four good 100 Watt Jensens I'd stick them in the quad box for my Super Twin amp.
Awesome! Let me know where you ordered it.
I was told you need to be a qualified electrician to play with mains power. That’s why I never took the plunge
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Oh heck yeah dude, this is going to be an awesome follow! Happy New Merry to you!
Costings
All right. So buffoon here did not take into account that the prices on Mojotone are American money! Don't make that simple mistake.
It's a straight Tweed 5e3 kit and they had a sale on at the time so I pushed the button on the kit and several other things (shhh).
The Tweed 5e3 kit complete (Export 240 Volt Aus) (with about 15% discount due to Thanksgiving sale) worked out to be about AUS$905.00.
Priority shipping with Fedex was about AUS$580.
Customs was about AUS$300 - but I had a bunch of other stuff there so I don't know what the amp kit would have been on its own.
Therefore, all up it was about AUS$1,785.:eek:
Edit: Customs and Taxes.
I got a bit more info on the customs and taxes. On this amp kit Customs charged me $32.99 in "duty" and $120.36 in "GST on importations".
Couple of points to note.
1. If you buy from Mojotone, from Australia, you will be charged GST (as they do not)
2. You need to keep the import documents for at least 5 years from date of entry - according to the Customs Act 1901, or its an offence on Australia.:mad:
Ooooooh that's a fair old whack of cash. Nearly as costly to ship and import it as it is to buy the Kit! DANG!
Delivery
Once ordered they need to put the kit together and make the cab. Mojo says the lead time on Orders with woodworking is about 3 weeks.
I ordered mine on 21 November 2018 and the Order was fulfilled by 8 December 2018 and sent by Fedex.
The Order arrived here on 14 December 2018.
It was actually ready for delivery well before that but Fedex don't contact you until they know what the customs amount will be and it was very difficult to contact them back just to pay for customs. Often calling the right customs payment line at different times would just ring out.
Anyway, it was packaged quite well with sealed air expanding foam and brown paper packing. Everything from the amp kit was there.
They did forget to pack the Tweed Amplifier Logo that I had ordered separately. But I contacted Mojo and they send me one within a day. (still not arrived yet as slow shipping).
The joys of living in Oz my friend. but I did get the expensive shipping, normal shipping just for the amp kit would have been about $200Quote:
Originally Posted by FrankenWashie
Yeah i had this conversation with a Canadian guy on the project electric guitar facebook page. Its as expensive for them to get stuff out of the US as it is for us and they are next door (so to speak).Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy40
Good old 'Straya tax.
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Getting that budget past admin. and then looking forward to the blood, sweat and tears putting it together.
oh...and Happy Birthday.
cheers, Mark.
Should turn out to be a really nice sounding amp, I'm about to pop in to my local Jaycar Electronics store for some bits and pieces to make a new footswitch for my Peavey Renown amp.
If you have any problems building the amp, just let me know and I'll be only too happy to help out.
Good Lord. That's a VOX AC30 with change leftover.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy40
I guess you don't get the fun of building it, but that made my eyes water a bit.
That's kind of why I posted the costings, for the benefit of others.Quote:
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If you just want an amp that works, is not handwired, you don't want to try and electrocute yourself and don't really really like the tweed deluxe its not worth it.
Ok detail shots. Cabinet is pine covered with Tweed olive stripe with oxblood grillcloth and fender style raised brown leather strap with chrome end caps.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...f91887be70.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...9edd49a6ce.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...7e4558cd5c.jpg
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Looks awesome, does the tweed covering come pre-lacquered?, I'm assuming it does.
Small parts kit, 2 6V6's, a 5Y3, a 12AX7, eyelet board and backing board, and transformers. 5e3 chassis - chrome plated cold roll steel. Finally, one Jensen C12Q Speaker! https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...ff0db485dc.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...24914e8c4f.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...396cf65820.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...5d3fa67a9e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...5d0c695c47.jpg
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You can order it like that doc but I chose not toQuote:
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That reminds me, I need to order one of those 5W Pitbull Guitar amps, we'll see how we go this coming month.
You may have missed the boat on those as they are no longer sold on the PBG site. Adam may have a couple still lying around, so I'd email him ASAP just in case, but I don't think they sold quickly enough to make it worth getting another batch made-up.Quote:
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Interesting kit. A friend built a Ceriatone 5E3 and and it sounds very nice. I see they've gone for 'bright' and 'normal' channels rather than 'inst. vol ' and 'mic. vol' (for a high-impedance harmonica mic) as on the original amp's channel labelling.
One thing you might want to consider is internally linking the two channels together, rather than have to always use an external patch cord to do so. I've got a 5E5-A based amp and I'm planning to do that to that amp (the idea came to me in one of those semi-awake moments that I keep having at the moment when struggling to get to sleep and just went round and round in my head for about an hour). It looks like the jack sockets provided have a switching function on them (which means that you can use the channels separately for two inputs if you want).
Thanks Simon. that's a pretty good idea. I hadn't thought of that.
Wow so many learnings!
Before I touch anything, I need to know as much as I can about the circuit etc. I am going to get my father-in-law to put this together with me as he is a sparky, but I don't just want to let him do it. I want to learn as much as I can.
For those of you who don't know Uncle Doug on You Tube. He's a legend. Let me introduce you:
How Tube Amplifiers Work, Part 1: The Power Supply https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5SSKX74DKg
How Tube Amplifiers Work, Part 2: The Pre-Amp and Power Amp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=901iaPVVzY0
(the 5F1 circuit is similar to the 5E3 circuit)
This is also a pretty nifty video on saftey: DIY: Amp Safety 101 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkEc58-vWc4
Edit: I put this here to remind me to read it. https://robrobinette.com/How_The_5E3_Deluxe_Works.htm
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I've watched quite a few of his youtube videos, he certainly knows his stuff, I've even subscribed to his channel too, always great to watch and informative.
Thanks Doc. No doubt I'll have some questions
I’ll be keeping a close eye on this. Always something I’d like to try. As for the cost of the kit - I think it’s pretty reasonable considering what you will learn building it. I’ve always been fascinated with electronics and would love to learn more about it. Sure you could just walk into a shop and buy a nice valve amp for $1500 but what you’ll get from this is priceless. Good on you for having a crack Andy!
Yep I agree, you gain more from building an amp yourself than by buying one, plus you can customize it to your liking as well.
There are so many times I've considered getting a kit like this... all the parts, a nice chassis and cabinet, nil stress on getting hard to find bits, and a set of instructions to put it together... and I always have rejected it because of the shipping and import duties.
Getting parts locally for my AC18W head cost me close to AU$900, and we all know how that shaped up... Lol.. My Blues Jr IV brand new and delivered only cost me AU$800...
Maybe one day when I win big on Lotto...
Happy birthday, and have fun...
Still doing research before I start building.
Does anyone know the pros and cons of lacquering the tweed?
The pros are that it keeps the tweed clean otherwise it can pick up a lot of dirty marks. Can't think of any cons. I recently varnished a tweed amp with a brushed-on single coat of water-based poly varnish and that was easy enough to do (and I could do it inside).
You can of course use a tinted lacquer to make it more yellow, like Fender do with their lacquered tweed cabs, but clear will provide protection if you want it to look more subdued.
So you have that unused half a bottle of Tru-Oil sitting on the shelf.Quote:
Originally Posted by Simon Barden
cheers, Mark.
Don't forget to remove the grille and all the other fittings first.
Good points, thanks Simon.
Uncle Doug just recently uploaded a series of youtube videos about the Oscilloscope and how to use it to trace out the signal path of an amplifier, definitely a must watch series.
Hey Andy, how's the build process going?
Thanks for the interest Doc. I'll definitely check out uncle Dougs vids. This year I'm getting absolutely flogged at work so I am hoping Ito get some time off at Easter to put this together. I have been checking out https://www.evatco.com.au/
for some pretty good quality amp parts. next time I think I'll just make my own cab and get the parts from there.
Still on the information gathering stage as I'm a bit of a bookworm. I have to wait until Easter before my sparky helper is free anyway. I've ordered some books which I will give a review on one received and digested.
Found this nice video though, hopefully it will inspire someone else to give it a go as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBV4FYCPoIY&t=1970s
Yep, that's a great video Andy.... Some quite essential points covered however many critical points completely overlooked.... The main point I think they missed is the feeling you get when you play through an amp that you have built, but I also think the little jam they have more than makes up for it in spirit...Quote:
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My new book arrived today!!! Nerd excitement!!!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...7695a4bd52.jpg
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