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Jun 24, 2018, 09:07 PM
#41
Originally Posted by
Jato
Last weekends flea market find.
That thing is simply fantastic.
Once in awhile you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
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Jun 24, 2018, 11:49 PM
#42
Opus
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Jun 24, 2018, 11:50 PM
#43
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Jun 24, 2018, 11:50 PM
#44
Opus
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Jun 25, 2018, 12:03 AM
#45
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Brew HP-1 Worn and Wound LE with a 70 year old Kodak Film Projector converted to a Tube Guitar Amp. Other than some hardware upgrades to the case it was completed this morning.
My neighbor and I built this together and he calls it a "Wicked Pisser Amp." With the projector removed I suggested that there's room to build a small enclosure to carry along a few beers.
I'm sticking with the 70 year old 8 inch speaker for now but may add a 10 inch Celestion speaker later. We wired it with a line out so it's easy to hook it up to other speaker cabinets.
Wear that which you feel is groovy, get down with your bad self, and shake your money maker if it makes sense for you to do so.
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Jun 25, 2018, 12:10 AM
#46
Originally Posted by
DocScotter
I'm sticking with the 70 year old 8 inch speaker for now but may add a 10 inch Celestion speaker later.
Greenback, I assume?
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Jun 25, 2018, 02:32 AM
#47
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Originally Posted by
mlcor
Greenback, I assume?
I don't really know. I'll look into it. I may have mentioned that I'm mostly an acoustic guy focusing on roots styles like folk, blues, country-blues, slide guitar, swing, and some gypsy jazz and bossa nova. My Strats and a few amps are buried under the crawl space but I made the mistake of recently picking up a Squire Thinline Telecaster Classic Vibe and loved the semi-acoustic tones and it's light weight. I've paired it with a Yamaha THR10C for some cool low gain sounds and it's an excellent little practice amp but this old tube amp is something else.
One volume and one tone control. No reverb. No effects. And it just sings. The clean sounds are just amazing and I love that I just set it and then control everything with the Thinline. Fingerpicking sounds great with the neck pickup and the volume on the Tele turned down. To get some grit you just turn up the volume on the guitar and it delivers classic vintage Fender tones. With the volume set at 2 on the amp I can get almost all of the vintage tones that I want and sing along at full volume. Beautiful distortion even at 2. Crank the amp volume up more and it just screams with creamy distorted vintage sounds.
I've heard that Mike Bloomfield once said that, "You can't hide behind a Telecaster." This set up is the closest that I've come to an acoustic resonator guitar. It amplifies all of your mistakes and makes you work to find good tone. But it's also so dynamic like a good resonator guitar. Dig in hard and you can make the amp growl like a distorted overdriven resonator cone. I love that!
I mean, I love the little Yamaha THR10C but this is a whole different thing for me. I now feel like I'm playing the amp too which is something that I'm only now noticing was missing with so many other amp set ups. I was thinking of getting a replacement set of Seymore Duncan pickups for this guitar but I think the stock pickups sound great with this amp. I may modify the Thinline from the classic 3-way switch to the popular 4-way switch mod. I initially thought I'd add a Piezo system for more acoustic sounds from the Thinline but I'm getting some pretty good acoustic sounds out of this set up already.
Wear that which you feel is groovy, get down with your bad self, and shake your money maker if it makes sense for you to do so.
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Jun 25, 2018, 02:59 AM
#48
Originally Posted by
DocScotter
I don't really know. I'll look into it. I may have mentioned that I'm mostly an acoustic guy focusing on roots styles like folk, blues, country-blues, slide guitar, swing, and some gypsy jazz and bossa nova. My Strats and a few amps are buried under the crawl space but I made the mistake of recently picking up a Squire Thinline Telecaster Classic Vibe and loved the semi-acoustic tones and it's light weight. I've paired it with a Yamaha THR10C for some cool low gain sounds and it's an excellent little practice amp but this old tube amp is something else.
One volume and one tone control. No reverb. No effects. And it just sings. The clean sounds are just amazing and I love that I just set it and then control everything with the Thinline. Fingerpicking sounds great with the neck pickup and the volume on the Tele turned down. To get some grit you just turn up the volume on the guitar and it delivers classic vintage Fender tones. With the volume set at 2 on the amp I can get almost all of the vintage tones that I want and sing along at full volume. Beautiful distortion even at 2. Crank the amp volume up more and it just screams with creamy distorted vintage sounds.
I've heard that Mike Bloomfield once said that, "You can't hide behind a Telecaster." This set up is the closest that I've come to an acoustic resonator guitar. It amplifies all of your mistakes and makes you work to find good tone. But it's also so dynamic like a good resonator guitar. Dig in hard and you can make the amp growl like a distorted overdriven resonator cone. I love that!
I mean, I love the little Yamaha THR10C but this is a whole different thing for me. I now feel like I'm playing the amp too which is something that I'm only now noticing was missing with so many other amp set ups. I was thinking of getting a replacement set of Seymore Duncan pickups for this guitar but I think the stock pickups sound great with this amp. I may modify the Thinline from the classic 3-way switch to the popular 4-way switch mod. I initially thought I'd add a Piezo system for more acoustic sounds from the Thinline but I'm getting some pretty good acoustic sounds out of this set up already.
Teles are definitely both rewarding and unforgiving. Here’s my ‘69:
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Jun 25, 2018, 03:46 AM
#49
Originally Posted by
DocScotter
Brew HP-1 Worn and Wound LE with a 70 year old Kodak Film Projector converted to a Tube Guitar Amp. Other than some hardware upgrades to the case it was completed this morning.
My neighbor and I built this together and he calls it a "Wicked Pisser Amp." With the projector removed I suggested that there's room to build a small enclosure to carry along a few beers.
I'm sticking with the 70 year old 8 inch speaker for now but may add a 10 inch Celestion speaker later. We wired it with a line out so it's easy to hook it up to other speaker cabinets.
Your friend must be from Boston or the New England area, and BTW, it's "wicked pissah". Nice reuse of the projector!
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Jun 25, 2018, 03:51 AM
#50
Originally Posted by
wschofield3
... it's "wicked pissah"...
Now that brings back some childhood memories.
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