Yes always got to be careful as my old electronics lecturer said 'its Volts that jolts, Its mills that kills' I love this amp I pretty much use it every day.

I like your thinking!! Two 10s!

It really is a fab sound, they knew how to design amps back then!

Thank you very much, I love it.

Thank you very much. I love this amp and pretty much use it every day.

Yea does the job well and has been noticed at gigs

I actually made a metal screen between the Output transformer and the power transformer, I was going to do a video about it, but didn't have enough to make it worth doing. I also re laced the heater wires though that didnt make much difference, but this little bit of metal did make it a lot more quiet.

​@@MatthewNorthMusic One quick check you might want to try regarding the hum. Plug in your Strat and turn up the amp volume till you hear the hum. If you have a 5 position pickup switch go to the number 2 position which is the bridge and middle p.u. If the hum goes away then the problem is hum getting on the signal somewhere between the pickup and the 12ax7 preamp tube. The 2 and 4 switch positions on a Strat are actually a "humbucking" configuration. Check first to make sure that your trem spring ground is good and you might want to see if your pickguard and pickup cavities on the guitar have shielding. If not you might want to add that. This will eliminate any room sources of hum getting picked up by the guitar. Also a good shielded instrument cable is a good investment. If you're sure that there are no sources of hum outside the amp then check inside the amp. Any wires inside the amp from the input jack to the preamp tube socket have to be kept as far from any other wiring as possible especially any high voltage wiring and any transformers. Some people will even use "shielded" wiring for the input signal wires. The input signal from the guitar is very weak and therefore susceptible to interference until it gets to the preamp. If hum gets on the input signal anywhere along the path before the preamp then amp will just amplify that hum as well as the musical signal which is all you want to hear. In fact Fender would keep the wires from the input jack to the preamp socket away from the high voltage wires to the socket by routing the signal wire straight up from the socket about an inch or so then put a 90 degree bend in the wire so it kind of came down from above the socket and floated above the socket and didn't come in from the side near the high voltage wires. If you run the input signal wires alongside the high voltage wires to the socket the magnetic field around the high voltage wires will "induce" a hum into the input signal wires. Hope this helps.

The hum is mains hum from the power transformer to the ot. Hence since I added a bit of shielding it'd better. The hum appeared at power on if you plug in and crank up there is not really much in additional hum at all and since I built it I have used it most days

@@MatthewNorthMusic One other thing is the output transformer and power transformer should be oriented 90 degrees out from each other. I watched your build video but couldn't see any pictures of how the transformers are mounted on the chassis so I can't tell if they are mounted 90 degrees out from each other. If they aren't you might want to shift the output transformer. It only requires drilling some new holes to remount it although it would be tricky now that the amp is fully assembled since you have to keep metal filings from getting inside the chassis or sticking to the transformers when you drill the new holes.

That may be his opinion in a land of 110v in the UK where the voltage is double imagine a faulty power switch, unlikely I know, but even so, having the fuse in circuit first gives that additional protection.

I have never tried a real champ but you can sure get Clapton Layla era tones out of it, I am playing through it on this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gZOJfqWbu83Sh3k.html Matt.

Thank you. I have re wired it since as time goes on experience means I can do it better.

Such an obvious thing to do yes thank you !!!

Or put a cable tie on it, then clamp the holder over the knob of the cable tie.

Never had a real champ but using KZfaq video and recordings as a comparison this amp is spot on

If you go for the G10 you need the bigger cabinet, and if you do that Id go for the princeton kit then you get a tone control too.

eBay :)

All the tests under load appeared to be in spec the other amp I built the tweed deluxe I did re bias as it was running at about 90%

The Strat has Lace Sensors and the Les Paul as DP100s

Ive bounced this a dew times! Solid as a rock!

Its a Jensen

I should do an update I re did all the wiring and replaced all signal wires with screened wire made not a lot of difference it's very low level and doesn't change when you turn up the volume

I've done gigs with it !