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for a Weber 5E3 (tweed deluxe) kit. Decided to take advantage of their 10% off sale which ends in a few days. The website says to expect a 2-3 week delivery time. I can't wait. I'll be done with school then and can fully devote my time to this.
I'll do a build thread when i get it. Would that go here or in projects?

Nice! Looking forwards to lots of picture updates.

I got one of these guys' 5E3's...

Frenzel

that looks fancy. is it a like a modified 5E3 or something?

mike, to tide you over here are some pictures a guy on the weber forum posted of his build:

Nice and neat. Impressive.

yeah, i hope mine looks half as good.

bubbles_horwitz wrote:that looks fancy. is it a like a modified 5E3 or something?

Its got two inputs a Fender Channel based on the Bassman 5E3, and the other based on the JTM45 Marshall.

It sounds really nice, tho Id like to hear it on a closed back 2x12. I just got the one open back 1x12

finally got it this morning. now i'm gonna build it. i'll take a bunch of pictures as i do so and post 'em here. i know at least mike will be interested.
i bought some lacquer yesterday to protect the tweed, but it turns out that it's already coated in something. everyone always talks about how they put shellac on theirs. so i assumed that it was gonna be bare tweed, but i guess they just do it to make it look older. it looks pretty nice to me.

You're darn tootin' I'm interested. That looks ruddy lovely.

NICE - I've been considering one of those kits recently. I'm excited to see how it sounds and how steep the learning curve is.

DUDE.

take tons of step by step pics or videos or pics AND videos

want to do this. ....... this would make a awesome christmas present hilary.

RELIC THE CAB!!!

alright. i just finished it this evening. probably would've finished it days ago if i hadn't been sick all week.
i was so relieved when i plugged it in and it worked with no problems. i decided to assemble everything inside the chassis to save headaches later on.
it was a pretty fun build and sounds pretty good. i imagine it'll sound much better once the speaker is broken in and i put in some better tubes. like all 5E3s it's very touch sensitive. light picking yields sparkly clean sounds and heavy strumming yields nice overdrive sounds. you can jump the channels together and crank the volume for even more overdrive.
anyway, enough of that crap. here are some pics:

tube sockets installed


installing these little gaskets for the leads from the output transformer

assembled board


assembled amp. you can tell it's not as clean as other builds. there's some delicious spaghetti over at the brass grounding plate and coming out of the power transformer.

That's beautiful. I think I've decided on the 5E3 kit as my next guitar purchase - $500 for a PTP tube Fender is an insane deal.

How difficult is it? Let's say I've built/modified an ass load of pedals and guitars; could I build it without too many headaches?

that's pretty much the extent of my electronics ability. if you're proficient with a soldering iron and can follow the wiring diagram, then i'm sure you can handle it.
just look at the pictures of previous builds on the weber website to get a good feel for the layout.

edit:

be aware that a few of the parts supplied by weber are of very low quality. particularly the fuse holder and the pilot light. i didn't even use the fuse holder supplied and instead used an old one i got at apex. i'm gonna order a new pilot light as the one supplied is made entirely of cheap plastic. i was very careful not to melt it.

Absolutely gorgeous man. Seriously jealous of this. It is something I would inspire to do myself one day.

i've got a 5Y3 on the way. i'm interested to hear how it compares to the copper cap.
maybe this will finally inspire me to rig up a decent video setup. god knows my bandmaster demo was awful.

Fucking hell mate you don't mess around. Congratulations, you're officially a kick-ass amp builder. I would say that is very clean for a first build, if I get near that level of tidiness I'll be elated.

Thanks for sharing all the pictures, any chance you can make some sound samples? How loud is it?

Wow. Well done.

i've only been playing with it at about 3 or so and it's fairly loud there. i imagine it could be giggable if the venue was small and you didn't care about headroom.
sound samples, now that i think of it, i'm not sure. know of any good open source audio programs? i used to use audacity, but i recently switched over to linux and can't remember if they have a compatible version. i'll track something down and try to throw together some sound clips. might take me a few days, though.

I'm a bit of a dunce with Linux I'm afraid. I wouldn't even know how to get sound out of my linux box at work.

Anyway, really cool regardless. You should edit the title so people know it;s done and there's pics.