On to new projects!
I decided to build a Fender Bassman clone– and as I’ve liked my Peavey Valveking which has one, and Brian Patchett’s Eve amplifiers– I decided on an early Bassman circuit, the 5E6A (as opposed to the more popular ’59 Bassman circuit, the 5F6A).
This one will be just a head– I’ll have to build a cab later. So I began by noticing an ethernet switchbox at D.I. (The local goodwill store). I picked it up for a couple bucks. I have no idea whether it worked– but it doesn’t now! I gutted it.
In this second picture you can see the top that I’ve taken off is laying underneath the rest of the box. I later cut most of that top off, so that I’d be able to more easily work inside the chassis.
At this point, I had no components– so I ordered some and in the meantime, I began working on a wooden box for the head.
It took me a little while, measuring the width of the chassis, and the height of a typical 6L6 tube, finally I decide that I needed 7.25″ or more in height in order for everything to fit right. I borrowed a table saw from a friend of a friend–Thank you Greg and Greg’s friend!
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