Andy40's Mojotone Tweed Deluxe build diary

[king casey]

My new book arrived today!!! Nerd excitement!!!

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Written by Frankie's side-kick.
Probably be a chapter on grave robbing.
cheers Mark.

[DrNomis_44]

I'll have to try building a Tweed Deluxe one day, I think Evatco sell the chassis and eyelet boards for Tweed Deluxes, they also stock the transformers as well.

[king casey]

I got curious and had a look on good o'l Amazon.
Only one review so far but quite a knowledgeable one...including a quote that gave me a chuckle.

'Guitar players wanting to learn how tubes and tube amplifiers work.’ I will state that most or all of the musicians I know wouldn’t get ten pages into the book before they started getting cross-eyed.

cheers, Mark.

[FrankenWashie]

Written by Frankie's side-kick.
Probably be a chapter on grave robbing.
cheers Mark.

Apparently the author was shunned at the last IFSOIAAH (International Friendly Society of Igor’s And Associated Henchpersons) conclave.
many have taken a dim view of his non traditional uses of electricity and his reluctance to promote reanimation of the dead for health and lifestyle benefits. He also suggested that more power is not always the answer, which really wound the society up. Igor (Igor, not Igor) was so shocked he lost his lisp and almost stood bolt upright.

[Andy40]

If you don't like physics and math this book is not for you.

[dave.king1]

My new book arrived today!!! Nerd excitement!!!

Damn I remember our eyes glazing over doing electronic theory at college, particularly in the first year when it was all new to us.

I mean you plugged your guitar into the amp, hit the power switch and magic happened in that big box, a pimply face kid didn't need to know how things worked.

What really made me get stuck into learning and understanding was drawing a circuit for homework on the train into college one day and this rather attractive young miss leaned over my shoulder and told me I had drawn a tetrode instead of a pentode and that type of valve didn't belong in that part of the circuit.

I was 15 at the time and I guess she was about the same age

[DrNomis_44]

Jaycar Electronics were selling a pretty good book called "Build Your Own Audio Valve Amplifiers" by Rainer zur Linde, it mainly deals with HiFi valve amplifiers, but it does have a section on guitar amplifiers too, it also includes lots of circuits, circuit board artwork and construction projects as well.

[Marcel]

What really made me get stuck into learning and understanding was drawing a circuit for homework on the train into college one day and this rather attractive young miss leaned over my shoulder and told me I had drawn a tetrode instead of a pentode and that type of valve didn't belong in that part of the circuit.

I was 15 at the time and I guess she was about the same age

Did you marry that young miss Dave ??

[dave.king1]

Did you marry that young miss Dave ??

Nah, she was far to intelligent to be attracted to the likes of me

[WeirdBits]

There’s something seriously wrong with that book... too much damn reverb!