BowToEd wrote:
Did you build everything from scratch or did you have help?
No help, just a lot of patience. I build my own wood bases in my shop, do the amp layout with a drawing program on the computer, buy Aluminum 6061-T6 80mil sheet stock, cut and drill all the pieces, spray paint the top and bottom, and then put it all together. For example, here is the metal all cut to size and ready for drilling.
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To be honest, the most tedious part was drilling all the vent holes in the base of the amp. (Please ignore the finger prints, hadn't done the final cleaning yet.)
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Geek wrote:
What is lacewood there? Only comes in 1" up here at my supplier and is something like $40/bf
The base is built from cut down 1" 2S2 stock from my hardwood supplier. I think I paid about $8 a board foot. If you ever get down to Seattle, you should stock up. (
CrossCut Hardwoods)
BDA wrote:
Out of interest , have you measured or listened to that amp with the 6V6 strapped as triodes ?
I thought about doing that (even installing a switch) but it requires a bias point change which would mean switching both the cathode resistors and the screen connection. I may do it in the future but right now I'm just enjoying the amp as built. I have a design for an 807 triode strapped amp, but that's still a couple of projects away.
blackriver wrote:
What kind of music are listening to and what kind of speakers are you driving with it?
I really like the 6V6 family (6V6, 7408, 6AQ5, 6005, etc.) in the UL mode for female vocal jazz (Melody Gardot, Rene Olstead, Erin Boheme, etc.) and that's what I using it for mostly. I'm not driving anything exotic; just a pair of generic bookshelf speakers or a set of BIC DV62si (only 90dB so I don't get much volume out of them, but it's a small room). I switch back and forth trying to decide which I like better.