This video deserves an award. Father and Daughter bond over building a guitar amp.

Very nice, I know it’s not too difficult but the interaction with your daughter is priceless.

The look on her face at first sound was priceless!. Well done dad.

Nice, a parent teaching their children how to build and troubleshoot. She'll be able to build anything and understanding how it works. Two concepts we fail to teach, you can do anything, and understanding how it works.👍👍👍

Great job and great father. Working on projects with your daughter is golden. She'll remember that for the rest of her life. I have an original 1963 Fender Tweed Champ amp. Have fun.

Thank you for making this! Such good father-daughter interaction. Your daughter seems very intelligent and verbally sophisticated and it’s a joy to listen to her commentary. It’s also pretty cool you let her drive the soldering iron. Great way to get a kid to respect a potentially dangerous tool.

Hey man... It's nice to see another great Father. It's what we do. God Bless your family.

Always impressed how "soldering" becomes "soddering". On all channels where sodderwork uses sodder of course; not just you here. Great you included your daugter in this work

That amp kit costs $849 on stewmac. I thought kits saved money. Geez.

Great Job Mike!! I just discovered your channel yesterday, while searching KZfaq for other instrument builders & restorers, besides the ones I've been watching for the last 5 years or so. 🙂 I must say that watching this particular video of yours, makes me want to jump right out and order one of those Telecaster Kits, and and Amp Kit as well!! Unfortunately; I personally, will have to wait awhile to order them, though;😮, as I am on Disability, and will have to wait until at least Oct. when one particular bill of mine will be paid off. Rest assured, I WILL eventually, get me both!! 😊 Seeing your Daughter's excitement, got me to fondly remembering some projects I did together with my step-son, while he was growing up! Who knows, maybe I'll end up doing some sort of projects with my one granddaughter, as she always wants to stick close to her "Pa-Pa!" 😊 Take Care & Thanks for the great videos! Am very glad to now be subscribed to your channel! Highest Regards! Ron Abilene, TX.

Great sticky note tip. BTW, the family that solders together, stays together.

I’ve built at least 100 Fender tube amp clones. I try to use real vintage output transformers, power xformers and speakers whenever I can. I’ve been building tube based audio, music and recording gear for 50+ years and have accumulated an enormous stock of vintage parts, tubes etc. If I can ever give you a hand feel free to reach out. I enjoyed your video, particularly the way you featured your daughter. My daughter never even attempted to fake an interest in my hobby/business. Peace, Rick

Mike, that’s awesome and love when the kids are excited in the workshop. My son does the same thing with holding his ears even when I use low decibel power tools. Anyway, she’s adorable and she seems so excited and the time spent together is priceless.

It's awesome to see your daughter engaged with you on the activity. Cool amp!

Making some great memories with your daughter there! Well done. I was recently building a model plane kit for the first time in decades, and it brought back a flood of wonderful memories of me doing builds with my late dad decades ago!

Hello 🙋🏻‍♂️from 🇩🇪. Nice job 👌🏼. This video reminds me of previous crafts with my daughter, when she was 10 y. maybe. Now i am 62 y. and my daughter 30 y. 🫣. How the time flies 🤷🏻‍♂️🙄😊.

Wonderful! I have the fondest childhood and adolescent memories doing exactly those kinds of projects with my father (an outstanding engineer and excellent craftsman), and I intend to carry on the tradition of these kinds of projects once I have children.

A Tele and a Tweed is a fine way to start her off! Dont let her go around any of those modelling boys!!!

Love her intensity and excitement for the projects! I have a nickname for her....... Matter of Fact Micro Mike.

You and your daughter are great. This is very, very sweet, and the amp looks and sounds great.

This is beautiful! Can't wait for my son to be a bit older and make one ourselves.

Dude! This is awesome! The building information is strong but the quality time with your child is huge! Awesome work! Awesome!

Love that you shared your passion with your daughter.

Cool daddy daughter project

This is so wholesome, it hits me home because my dad and I built a 50W JCM800 (granted, it’s a different project and we were both knowledgeable in electronics). If you were able to do this however, I strongly advise you to get into DIY pedals, there are a lot of kits for high-end circuits (such as the klon centaur) for really affordable prices.

Oh my god literally Father of the years. If I can have piece of memory like the with my father it will be super nice

OK, Mike, you keep knocking it out of ther park! Great job! As an old dude, just let me say you are doing a fantastical job! Soon you will playing in Her band! Keep it up and keep these GREAT videos coming as well.

What a great Dad. And an awesome little daughter! Love this video.

I buy from Stew-Mac but way too expensive for me. But the idea of a DIY tube amp with/for my grand daughter who's learning guitar and mandolin gifted from moi are the kind of memories that will never be forgotten.. The SR 15 watt tube amp was only $249 3 years ago. One day I'll get a parts list and commence with the build. And thank you for the video. I just watched a influencer obliterate 2 tube amps because he didn't like their sound which made me cringe. Your video pulled me back to a kinder reality. lol

I wish I had a dad like you when I was her age. I got taught how to do up a neck tie and that was about it.

This is a great Father's Day video.

I built this amp about 2 years ago and it’s still going strong. Great little amp.

Your daughter is adorable. Great job dad.

_HOW MUCH?!_ jeez that's a bit steep

Beautiful guitar ecspecilly those tone knobs good job

Your daughter is adorable ☺️

Well done. Great song choice for the test song.

This was a nicely-done video. The interaction with your daughter is priceless. I do agree with the comments about the cost of the kit. For the price of this kit, you could buy a Fender Blues Jr. which is a better amp. I’ve done a lot of DIY audio electronics projects. The benefits of DIY are many, but saving money rarely is one of them. The benefits of DIY include learning how things work; the satisfaction of making something yourself: development of problem-solving skills; and the ability to make a custom product that you can’t get any other way. With regard to the cost: This is a Stew Mac kit. StewMac products tend to be expensive. However, they sell only high-quality products, usually designed for professionals. They stand behind their products and have exceptional customer service. There are other amp kits available that cost a lot less. This kit included the cabinet, which most kits do not include.

Always around to help. Good job!👍🏼

Very likeable kiddo! Neat family project.

“Period correct” chassis shielding would have been made from white asbestos. Just a fun tidbit. Enjoy your videos! Awesome work, man!

Cool kid, I’m sure you are very proud of her !

You’re a commendable Dad, new sub btw, thank you…

DIY tele $??, DIY Tweed $??, time spent with your daughter, priceless, good vid Dadio, lol

😳Damn, that kit is way more expensive than fully assembled tube amps from reputable companies, that gives you more for your money and also sound better. Then again this is Stewmac, they are known for significantly marking up the price for everything they sell.

Thank you for the fancy snap

Great video and I really enjoyed it... I have been on the fence whether to build a vintage Fender style for my recording studio with the 5E3 circuit. If I do decide to build it, I hope it's not too more involved then your kit. *Very cool so see a dad and his daughter interact and build the amp. Probably, the best part of the video. All the best from the Jersey Shore... Phil

1:18 haha she's like "Dad you shouldn't have told me that and taken the compliment"

I know you are a newbie but that is an eyelet board, there are also turret boards. Point to point is like a 1930's radio where the components are scattered all over near to where they connect. They use some terminal strips but that's it they jump around from this point to that point. The turret/eyelet board was the next advancement followed by couplets, which were the first multi component components. They would have a few resistors and capacitors in one component usually wire 4 to 8 leads. This is an eyelet board construction though not point to point, just saying, not trying to be the know-it-all a-hole but I figured you would want to know.

This guy's a saint. When we were small, my father used to ask us if we wanna die. We said no. He said then watch and learn, and stop wiggling around.

My daughter gets excited when I play for her, she nods her head and dances along. Loves watching and touches everything on the guitar including the tuners but somehow doesn't get poked by the ends of the strings. She can barely walk now but won't be long before she can play a guitar.

Awesome great job... I do believe that I would have needed a break & a few drinks... To finish the Amp.. A lot of parts. But it's a beautiful vintage style Amp. Personally my wife and I use multiple effects pedals that have amp can speaker SIMS... That said it's great that you are starting your daughter out understanding the guitar gear .. Guitar it's self so someday she can modify or Build her own stuff.. Cheers 🎸🎵🎶🎶

That is very cool, full Dad point 🎉

Tip. When you do the panel jacks. Install them in the front facing inwards. Then, when you solder, it will be the exact spacing required. The flip the jacks to the correct orientation

Nice project, but who can afford $900 for a lil 5w amp??

Point to point is the best!

And the coolest dad of the year award goes to?

So cool

Couldn’t have picked better demo song! Nice.

Dang she a pro, like her solder skills.

Je trouve ça super que la petite travaille avec son père. En plus elle a l'air super intéressée et plutôt douée. 👍😃

I remenber your promise about the amp for your dougther. Nice job my friend.

Capacitor discharging tip from Gerald Weber of Kendrick Amps: from ground, clip to the first (or in this case only) preamp tube, pin 1. (unplugged of course) Make sure power switch and standby switch are on with volume up. All caps will gracefully drain in a minute or two. I verified this with my Deluxe schematic. They discharge through resistors so its not a quick zap. Of course a 10 watt 100 ohm resistor will also work, but you have to be careful not to miss any caps.

I like it! I know the quality time with daughter was priceless. But for 850$ ouchy

I just wish they'd update these kits to the later models of these amps where the speaker out is between the rectifier tube and the power tube, instead of near the preamp tube (which can often cause squealing and other issues)

I thought this might be a fun project to do with my son. But it sells for about $880 on Amazon. 😂 So this is a hard pass. Considering projects with children is priceless, there are other things that can be built together while considering expense. We moved on to a guitar. Great video, great dad.

That's cool you're showing your daughter the trade. She'll grow up to be a wonderful woodworker herself, if that's ehat she chooses to do. Edit: Tube amps have to warm up before they come on.

Did they say how much the kit cost? I could have missed it. I just lost an amp similar, a 6v6 and one 12ax7 with a ten inch speaker. Mine was old though.

Nice video though have to agree it"s a bit on the exy side for what it is compared to what you could get off the shelf. To get it to Australia would be USD 913 / AUD 1351 as there is nothing like Stewmac in Australia that I am aware of. Nothing beats a valve amp which is why I have 7 so it is not hard to see why you went down this path.

Do you want to try some soldering? Umm yeah! I love it.

DCEmD...is more than a feeling

Yeah, it's more than a feeling

anyone knows where to get a kit for a mini marshall?, any place recomendable for pedal kits as well?

I used to love to build Heathkits. Where did you find this amp kit and what's the model #? And how large is the speaker?

By shorting the OT you can easily destroy it. This is not what you want to do :)

850? Puedo comprar buenos amplificadores a tubos a ese precio

Next some pedal kits!

Hey the link to the kit in the description is broken could you update it?

I'd be curious to see how you'd do with a home-built cab.

This so cool to watch father and daughter people this what great perants look like getting evolved with ur kids and to have learned experience with them that they take with them for years and pass on to there kids ect...

Use clamps not solder. Enables you to do driver swap outs later.

Weird question, but when it short circuits to ground why is that happening? I've watched the video but I still can't seem to figure out why it happened.

For your amp cabinet build please tell me it will be matching her guitar 😊

Holy cow you can get a vintage one for that, Or a new one that sounds the exact same for 100 bucks, it'll look a bit different though. Some folks got too much money. Sorry to be judgemental, but... damn!

Didnt know Amp Kits existed. To me thats a really intresting Video because i've recently build a P-Bass with a little help from a friend who knows how to solder.

LOL !!! Diy kit 850 $ ??? At this price you can get some great vintage tube amp !!! But... anyway great way to make StewMack shit get sold )))

you definitely was at risk of damaging something, most likely the output transformer, i you were shorting the imput it wouldnt matter but the output is one of the worst places to have a short besides B+.

Hey nice! I wouldn't blame yourself for that, shame on Stewmac for using such compact RCA connectors. The normal ones with plastic shells have longer leads for you to solder to instead of that tiny terror of a connector

Ok, 850 bucks is ridiculous. I was going to sell mine for 250 already built. I guess with labor the amp would cost 1500 bucks? People are crazy. Can you see why people are going for modeling amps now? Interesting video for sure. But no-thanks Stew Mack.

I was hoping you were going to build the cabinet.

I would point out that the tip about putting a post it note under the terminals over the speaker isnt necessary....you can solder to speaker material so there is no way a dab or two of solder would in any way hurt it!!!! (probably wouldnt even adhere to it if it fell but if it did...just flick it off!!!)

How does SOLDER become SODDER?

Great video! But that price is completely unjustified! Close to $1000 yet you get a 5 watt amp which you have to assemble yourself with the risk of getting an electric shock and damaging other components. Who's smoking at Stewmac?

Why solder? Just use spade connectors! If you are gonna solder... you should tin the wire and terminal first... and maybe use some flux!

I suggest that the next time you use a turret board. Eyelet board is sh.t. If you could see my princeton reverb eyelet board after 6 years 🙈 It's all twisted and warped. Now I have to replace it. Building from start with turret board would have saved me a lot of work...

great to introduce a kid to amp building.. her interest level was amazing.. she's a really kool kid.. while the amp kits are nice and easy.. they are also a rip-off financially.. .. and almost everything stewmac is a ripoff too.. i said almost because they do have a few good durable tools and some difficult to source "quality" parts.. but the majority of their stuff.. like 90+% is pure highway robbery.. i suppose you pay for the convenience of their fairly well laid out catalog/website and one stop shopping aspect.. but seriously.. by time you complete a project you could have 2 or 3 of whatever you were making/building/repairing.. if you source quality parts and build an amp from scratch.. actually build a cabinet.. a chassis.. etc.. you can save literally half the $ and have a better amp.. now, if you have never handled a soldering iron before.. don't own a saw or drill.. don't understand how amps work.. this assembly of a kit might be the way to go.. you aren't actually building anything.. you are assembling it.. you didn't design the circuit.. it's a copy of a well know circuit.. and that's good.. it will work.. but so limited.. having the cabinet made saves a lot of time.. and makes the final product look good.. let face it.. 1st time woodworking projects almost never look good for the average joe.. but, cabs are easy to make and you feel pretty good when you turn out a nice one.. chassis are a but more difficult.. working with metal takes a different skill set.. once again.. start cutting and bending steel... when you are done.. it feel pretty good.. ordering resistors and caps from mouser makes more sense.. you can get 100 caps or resistors for cost of one or two from stewmac.. the speaker selection is most critical.. that and good transformers.. mercury or hammond trannys FTW.. and speakers.. spend your money here.. then create a good modded circuit.. no reason to settle for a single "circuit".. when you customize your own you can switch between tweed and blackface and marshall all on the same amp.. add a master volume and 2 channels.. boost and bright switches.. tremolo.. vibrato.. reverb tanks.. add an effects loop and a DI box.. an attenuators.. and multiple ohm taps for external cab varieties.. take the best of all your favorite amps and build that into yours.. you are now ready to have some fun.. venture out and really build the next one.. make it a project with your daughter.. learn together.. she's well on her way to being a great musician and maybe the next Alexander Dumble..

Guitaarrrr

You know what would have been boss...a half scale tele...for her to start on..js

Oui, c'est très amusant pour toute la famille, mais c'est un sport de riche à ce prix-là. 900€ pour un kit mini clone de stewmac. Autant opter pour un modèle à tube entièrement construit, bien moins cher. Il existe également des kits beaucoup moins chers et de qualité égale. Tout chez Stewmac est trop cher, tout comme Warmoth. A part ça, bravo pour l'initiative.

That suoer fine solder wire is really annoying to use, you have to feed so many inches of it into every solder joint. Try a regular thickness wire like 1mm (0.040")