New recycled amp day - vibro champ thingy

4114Effects

Did a @HarrySeven and bought a little Fender Frontman 15G for £12.50 delivered from ebay. Figured it might make a nice cab for a little build ... and it does!

Love the vibro-champ sound - I've tried a lot of tremolo pedals and now I've tried amp-tremolo none of them have come close to the real thing, in my humble opinion. Amp is great fun to use too, the front panel switch bypasses the tone-stack which puts it in Tweed Champ territory for more gain and rawness.

Chassis is not the most elegant I've built as it's all I could achieve at home - not had a chance to get across to the workshop to get on the box former for a while now. 

Might replace the 8" speaker with something more efficient, although I do like the early breakup in tweed mode, there's nothing quite like nasty champ-style overdrive. Also sounds great if you unplug the internal speaker and plug into a 1x12 - completely different amp then.

Anyway here she is.

Sassafras

That is bloody lovely.
Another nice bit of work.

ThorpyFX

looks very cool indeed!

Alnico

That's bloody amazing.
Really well done it looks so neat !

thermionic

Cannot wow this enough.

BigMonka

I love your work Dan, looks cracking and I bet it sounds as good too.

Lebarque

So cute. I want one.

ICBM

Brilliant job .

Neil

Very nice indeed!

chuckles2k3

Looks fab! I'd buy one!

DJH83004

Lovely work, interested to know how you achieved the front plate finish?

SimpleSimon

That is very sweet looking and just the sort of thing I mentioned I had in mind to discuss!

4114Effects

SimpleSimon said:

That is very sweet looking and just the sort of thing I mentioned I had in mind to discuss!

Drop me a PM

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DJH83004 said:

Lovely work, interested to know how you achieved the front plate finish?

Printable foil - secret weapon for builds like this.

bbill335

Bee-yoo-dee-full

DJH83004

4114Effects said:

DJH83004 said:

Lovely work, interested to know how you achieved the front plate finish?

Printable foil - secret weapon for builds like this.

Very professional for one-offs or prototypes, is it something that can be used on say a laser printer, or something more specialist (I take you do the artwork yourself in CAD or Visio or similar? 

4114Effects

@DJH83004 ;Works with any inkjet and self seals to be waterproof after printing.

I do the layouts in Adobe Illustrator :-)

therose789

Nice Nice Nice!

bodhi

Very nice!  You have any sound clips?

4114Effects

I can get some I guess. My playing is crap though lol

Wazmeister

Looks cool, and great photos Dan !