Forum Project: Design and Build Tube Amplifier

[bkdavidson]

I'm still interested in this, also. The new pickup for my guitar came in today, so I'll know pretty soon if I can follow wiring schematics and use a soldering iron. I started reading your book, Randy, and it made sense and was pretty interesting. Then I saw the posts about reading cps. 8-16. I'll try to hit those in the next couple days to see if I really can be of some use.

[randyc]

Bryan, as always, I'm impressed by your motivation. There's little doubt that you can be useful - and that applies to all that have expressed interest. It's not possible to gage a person's skills and intelligence from reading posts on an internet forum but it IS possible to make an estimate. There are no "less than average intelligence" persons that post routinely on this forum, in my estimation.

Waiting for feedback from the machinist's forum. Several have downloaded the book, expressed appreciation and spun personal anecdotes. I haven't suggested that they participate yet, just testing the waters but will make a decision some time during the next few weeks about this project. (I tend to drag my heels at "committing" - it's a male characteristic, right?)

Cheers,
Randy

PS: I have the same problem that I expressed when I suggested the Carvin SH-550 evaluation (and the two Heritage guitars from last year) .... bought, paid for but then what? Ditto with another vacuum tube amplifier. That won't influence the final decision - that's going to be determined by health.

Thanks to those who iterate their desire to be involved !

[neuralguy]

hey Folks
I am an electrical engineer with 30 + years of experience and I have designed and built a number of amps from scratch. I would like to work on this project some later this summer, but am currently finishing a PhD in E.E.
I will post some more thoughts later, but the most important thing that I have learned is to keep it small and simple. I am just finishing a 150 watt all tube project, and it has been a monster, especially for the cost of parts.
Regards
neuralGuy

[BigDaddyLoveHandles]

Just an aside: In 2010, how do folks learn about workings of tube amplifiers? I can't imagine this is taught anywhere.

[randyc]

It's not (and wasn't even as far back as when I was going to school forty years ago). That was the primary reason for writing the book (mentioned it somewhere in the introduction I think) - to document some of the design procedures before they are completely forgotten.