Andy40's Mojotone Tweed Deluxe build diary

[Andy40]

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.

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[Sonic Mountain]

That looks like fun

[DrNomis_44]

Oh cool, was wondering when you would have a go at building an amp, hey Happy Birthday mate!!!!


Hope it all goes well.

[Dedman]

ooooh tasty, my fav speaker cab has a jensen Falcon in it, great clean tones

[DrNomis_44]

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.

[Old Tooth Hopkins]

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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[Bakersdozen]

Oh heck yeah dude, this is going to be an awesome follow! Happy New Merry to you!

[Andy40]

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.

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.

[FrankenWashie]

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!

[Andy40]

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).