Skully's First Tube Amp Rebuild- Valve Junior Collaboration
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 2:18 pm
Not much to post here yet, but I am collaborating with my good friend at B Custom Cabs to completely rebuild my Valve Junior from the ground up.
Going to be completely gutting the chasis and starting over.
Just bought a new turretboard for a modded version of the Valve Junior circuit, using a 6V6 instead of the stock EL84.
Going to be building it with orange drop caps, replacing all the old plastic jacks with switchcraft and overall making it a little bit nicer in terms of the amp unit itself.
Where B Custom Cabs comes in is the new combo shell- I think the stock 8" speaker sounds a little whimpy, so I'm having him make a new combo shell for the amp that will house a WGS Reaper 12" 30w speaker and be the same size as the other cab he built me. It will be stained red mahogony with Ampeg style grill cloth.
Right now the face of the amp has a bunch of extra holes from different mods that I tried here and there. I haven't quite decided, but I have either the option of cutting a new faceplate for the amp out of aluminum (which I am leaning toward) and just screwing that onto the face for a cleaner look and covering up the extra holes, or I can get a whole new blank chasis and drill out all the holes for everything myself. If I went the later route, I would replace the in-adapter fuse for an external fuse holder, and replace the lighted switch for a regular switch with a jewel light. I haven't quite decided what I will do there, but I don't really feel like cutting out the square hole for the power chord jack myself so I'm not sure if I will do that.
Anyways, stay tuned. I'm going to be doing this slowly and finishing up the pedals that I've got to do for Dirge before I really get started on this, but the cab is under construction!
Going to be completely gutting the chasis and starting over.
Just bought a new turretboard for a modded version of the Valve Junior circuit, using a 6V6 instead of the stock EL84.
Going to be building it with orange drop caps, replacing all the old plastic jacks with switchcraft and overall making it a little bit nicer in terms of the amp unit itself.
Where B Custom Cabs comes in is the new combo shell- I think the stock 8" speaker sounds a little whimpy, so I'm having him make a new combo shell for the amp that will house a WGS Reaper 12" 30w speaker and be the same size as the other cab he built me. It will be stained red mahogony with Ampeg style grill cloth.
Right now the face of the amp has a bunch of extra holes from different mods that I tried here and there. I haven't quite decided, but I have either the option of cutting a new faceplate for the amp out of aluminum (which I am leaning toward) and just screwing that onto the face for a cleaner look and covering up the extra holes, or I can get a whole new blank chasis and drill out all the holes for everything myself. If I went the later route, I would replace the in-adapter fuse for an external fuse holder, and replace the lighted switch for a regular switch with a jewel light. I haven't quite decided what I will do there, but I don't really feel like cutting out the square hole for the power chord jack myself so I'm not sure if I will do that.
Anyways, stay tuned. I'm going to be doing this slowly and finishing up the pedals that I've got to do for Dirge before I really get started on this, but the cab is under construction!
