We love your sense of humor over here in the states. Keep the good times rolling champion..!

I want to like this twice for the title.

I watch these videos because I like being called a champion by Aussie amp techs

Screw famine is a great name for a band!

This kiwi loves the commentary. A hobbyist can learn lots from a bad design described by a great tech.

Yer sense of humor's right up my alley!

man, your sense of humour is one of the reasons i love your channel👍🏻

Don't know how you manage not to be overwhelmed some of these repairs are rebuilds love your work .If my Mesa TranceAtlantic 15 fails I now know who's fixing it 😅

I love your videos and Insta posts. As a tech myself, it's nice to watch other techs doing their thing. You always learn something. All the best, Dries - Solodallas Europe

Recently subscribed to your channel, I enjoy your videos.Thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise.Keep up the fantastic content.Watching from Alabama.

Enjoying ya vids 👊🏻

I actually considered one of these many many years ago. That crooked tube is killing me :D

An old buddy of mine had a decent 5E3 clone. He told me I wouldn’t need my Muff and he was right. Such a great, nasty overdrive. And it was very loud for the size. Maybe one day…

Good finish with the tie in to ECSR!

I prefer the term "critical thinker"....and sometimes there's just a lot to be negative about.... This junk looks like something I would have done in my younger experimenting days - I certainly wouldn't consider selling it to anyone, let alone for a premium "boutique" price. Love the Suntan caps too.... Love your work, mate - keep it up!

Having seen this , I'd decline it if one ever comes my way . Hahaha .Cheers

Keep the sarcasm, i love it. I would react exactly the same if i had that crap on the bench.

Revisiting your content and I’m not upset one bit with your thoroughness and professionalism. And too effin bad if you sound negative this work was not worth 8 stacks.

I thought you were joking about the band name at the end. Searched just to be sure. Listened to one of their songs ("Which Way To Go") and it rules. You are a champion, sir! Thanks for recommendation.

Appliance designs are meant to take into account fire hazards, they should have installed a fire extinguisher in the amp

Lazy J name is appropriate.

Looking forward to this horror show.

You’re not negative….. you talk like a Tech. Sometimes ya gotta laugh or you’ll cry.

Okay, okay, I clicked the like button ---- but if I went on vacation by myself, my missus would almost certainly throw something of mine in the bin that I don't actually want to go in the bin, and in that case I would expect you to rescue it for me!

So $8000 will buy you this poorly executed monstrosity. It’s almost criminal.

“Also, since modern mass production techniques are usually cost driven, one often finds that corners are cut in the quality of the parts that are used as well as the production process…’good enough’ is often sufficient. Conversely, when you build amps by hand, you can choose to do better than that. You can choose to make things better than they have to be…” 😉

Sadly Brad there are some things the world needs to be told and in a particular manner,if you didn't laugh you'd cry so keep doing as you wish and saying as you want

Cheers chief! 🛹🏄🏼‍♂️🌏👍🇨🇦

Freakin' Pizza Sheet!

Wow. What a special piece of gear. 😂

I think that's the model of transformer that was fitted to mine after it blew up. Note that the cable that plugs into the DIY reverb unit receives the entire pre amp signal from the chassis lol

I’ve made a 5e3 kit that I built a few years ago. One day I’ll get around to tweaking it a bit but I’ve always wondered about how close the 6v6s are to the Alnico blue speaker magnet. Not touching but close. Wondering if the speakers magnetic field would effect electrons passing through the valves.

WRT Jackcon caps, I received a bunch from our fav local supplier W#S in place of usual Jamicon. Checking the fine print on website, they did spec substitutes where orig unavailable. Sigh!

Oofff. Knock Lazy J off the list. What a weird build...

I'm no amp tech, but seeing a fan pointed at a PT makes me shiver. NOPE!

Considering the price of the amplifier you'd think they'd put the reverb tank in a bag.

Why not use the big long Bud box down the right side of the amp and stick the trem & reverb into only ONE sub chassis? It it won't fit go to a metal shop that has a box and pan brake. Thunderbird Signs is my chassis shop. It's a sign shop so if they can make metal boxes in the shapes of every letter in the alphabet all the numbers from 0 to 9, signs, symbols and punctuation, they can make me a chassis in almost any shape or dimension too.

Where are these amp shaped items made? It's criminal charging money for that

Uhh, that thing is weird. As for fender ,, at the end of the Tweed era fender was making a stand slone trem unit as well as a reverb unit. uhh say 1960. they were very cool units. i think of those units as the first pedals.

Nothing wrong with your sense of humor Brad you'd fit in with my circle, of Big city battle scared retired cops.😂

man... what a strange strange way to build an amp! lol

you'd need a manual to work out which bin goes out when for our council - and FMI junked it before it became a Production Run...

I want one

Wow….one year?

Part 3, just 8 min. old, must watch Part 2, first; Nov.-12-2023✝️

I get your humor, i'm exactly the same way! Carry on bro don't worry about those sensitive Millennials. 😂

There's a manual on the Lazy J website

i would love to know who you think a really great 5e3 maker is? Victoria maybe? always wanted a 5e3 but it seems to be a minefield of bad copies.

As an amateur in 5E3 building that is a total shot show. I built one years ago and it looked better that that abomination. Also used to build the Boxes for them for a while. I'll give you $600 bucks for it!

I didn't notice the oily fans on part 1

Hi Brad. You may have already noticed, but those 6L6's look really cooked to me. They usually have red writing on them.

5:20, ...."must have been during the great screw famine of *1922*...." I wouldn't know as that was a little before my time, and I'm older than dirt😉!

It really does look like an amateur build. It looks like something I would put together.....

And if the frankstein amp comes back to life, will the forthcoming replacement speaker be considered the bride of Frankenstein?

8000? I search on Reverb and they're selling for about 4000 brand new in the UK. is there an australian tax of 4000 for importing amps?

Holy Actual, That is a standard deluxe size PT, but it uses low grade core steel, like M400. To get a decent deluxe PT with that stack size on 50Hz supply it has to be M6 steel. So either the wire on that is really thin to run the lams properly and way too thin for 2 6L6's or they are running the lams so hard that its close to saturating and would cause failure. idiotic.

I'm here for the humor myself. Dont mind the nay sayers

They didn't see him coming ..(the purchaser) they sent for him

I’m watching this thinking that’s a lot of money for an amp that looks a bit oddly constructed at best.

What a nightmare!

Do Ozzy fans blow Aussi-- ?😯 ( Since you guys pronounce both words almost identically; I intentionally didn't spell out the word completely because I figured it would get deleted by the algorithm)

Someone was smoking the white pipe when they designed that one.

This is sad. The 5E3 circuit is a perfect creation from the genius minds of Leo and Company. Sure, there are a few things that can be done to bring it into the modern world. Better grounding. That's about it. Maybe a NFB switch. More than those, and the tone of the original creation suffers. Here's what is perplexing to me: this Lazy J guy knows something about amp circuits. He knows about reverb and tremolo circuits -- not easy stuff. Why would he throw it all into a box-too-small with a cheap chassis and obviously inadequate power tranny? What makes it worse: the guy has the knowledge and skills to do it right, but instead turns out this POS. I love the Tweed Deluxe, and have built dozens. I consider this Lazy J amp a personal affront -- me and Leo, standing shoulder to shoulder and looking pissed off. If a customer wants reverb and trem, build a different amp or build a stand-alone reverb/trem unit (like Leo already did!). Plenty of modern builders integrate tweed and brown-panel principles with reverb and tremolo, and do it successfully with designs based on good craftsmanship that last the test of time, respecting Leo's vision and bringing it into the modern world. Look at the Milkman Creamer for one example. Cathode bias 6v6 push-pull, reverb, and tremolo. It can be ordered with VVR. A nice compact combo amp with great styling and a maintainable circuit, for less than half the money of this thing. There are others. Ok I'm done venting now. Thanks Brad for the exposé. This vid made me subscribe.

I bet those cows that this whole amp is a TAD 5E3 kit with miscellaneous TAD ala cart parts to fill in the rest of the heap. Disgraceful and outright fraudulent if true. Moooooo

Well in the amp's defence, it does say lazy on the front.... Im building a trainwreck soon. The ugliest amps ever made. And most likely the second most over-hypeded builder of all time. Some builder freinds have kind of cringed when i told them , and certainly havent been enthusiastic about the endeavor... But hey, they sound good and i kind of want to build all the real famous amps and be done with it. I think I'll tell the boys im buildimg a lazy J next hahah. 😂

😵‍💫Looks like you have no Idea what you are dealing with! 😂 Just jabbering… BTW: It hast been build in the UK and not „in the States“…. Still Best AMP on the Planet! Greetings from good old GERMANY!

Lazy J (Jesse Hoff) is based in the UK Brad, just goes to show ya.. Dont believe what Guitar mags write up on gear!! Oh btw...bin nights tonight mate! And Eddy Current Supression Ring... great band!! ( that was the edit bit!)

As far as you being negative............. There is an established set of design best practices, many of the amplifiers you work on do not adhere to said practices. Negative attitude, I don't see it, frustration and a dry sense of humor, yes, most certainly. IMHO, considering the high price this Lazy J amplifier is an abomination.

What a mess. Makes a 100 watt Wizard look like a bargain.

Screw famine 😂

Have the lazy j fanboys been putting it on you mate? 😂 I suppose if I'd spent 8 grand myself I'd be looking for someone to blame 😢

Someone should be getting back a total refund, what a piece of junk!

Well, the craftsmanship on this $8000 amp is awful. I understand that it’s a normal price for an hand built boutique amplifier but this looks like a modified generic Chinese tube amp kit that is built by a sloppy beginner. And on top of that, it looks like the mods are overloading the power transformer. The addition of the cooling fan is the proof that they saw the problem but chose the most moronic way to try to solve it. In fact is that didn’t solve the problem, it just delayed the resulting failure. So we have to question the competency of the people who designed this amp.

Babbies first amp design. Thing is atrocious in every way possible.

Lol, who the F are Lazy J and Why - just WHY are they selling what looks like somebody's hobby project as a professional amp? 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂ Bloody Hell, if they wanted 'verb and trem, just use the 763 Deluxe circuit ffs. Or the Princeton / Harvard like Brad said, lol. You could still put it in a tweed cab if you must have that 'vintage vibe.'

Smell of burning hair tells everything. I mean, it really smells bad!

This amp has several points of failure

where are the sniveling lazy j fanboys?

OMG, Brad. What a piece of crap. I think you have been remarkably self-controlled..

That amp is a complete and utter piss-take.

Soup up a Honda Civic, but at the end of the day, still a Civic minus the bells n whistles....Do you think copper ring helps the flux hum? Funny how they positioned output xfmr at angle...makes me think they were struggling with noise

Negative or just well grounded in reality? Electric sense of humour with odd shocking comments. Some people need a slow blo fuse pal

Many lives were lost in the screw famine of 1922😂🤣😅🤣🥲