zguitar71

Yup, the most important part of any quest for tone. While the amp is the most important part the speaker is the most important ingredient in the amp. I love amps more than guitars at this point. Once I started to understand how they work I started to see guitars as limited and amps as limitless, though that is probably an overstatement.

Cool lights in the guitar cubby! Silver burst is definitely unique and had your name all over it.

I really like Wolfetone pickups, I have legends, mean/meaner P90s and an A2 Marshallhead. All of them sound great and he has great customer service. I also have a set of “60s” P90s from Tyson Tonelab. I bought them in 6/17. I got them in 11/17 after many calls and emails and finally was in the process of canceling the order. Only then did he send them out. They are the best set of P90s I have. I have original ‘57 from Gib, a set from Throback, Lollar, and Wolfetone and the TTL stand out. It is just a shame he is so awful with customer service.

Thanks! The first knob is a master volume and the second is a cut control. The master is post phase inverter. The amp is still two channels but with a single input per channel and they are side by side on the left side of the amp. No sound samples yet. I am currently recording with my band and I’m using this amp so there will be examples from that. I have a web domain but no web site yet. I will start working on that soon and then I’ll need dedicated samples and some much better pictures.

I started building amps a couple of years ago and really enjoyed doing it. I started taking them to all my gigs and then sold all my other amps (aside from a ‘62 Concert). Then one day after a gig I was approached by a guitarist that wanted me to build him an amp. Hmmmm, so I do it or not? Well I did it. First I got business insurance and an LLC then I got to it. A few weeks later I sold him an amp and Southbound Amplification was born! The Cypress model is what he bought. It is based on a 6g3 only channel one is cleaner and two is dirtier. There is also a master volume, a cut control, a negative feed back switch and a boost for channel two. The picture is the amp he bought. I have a Cypress amp that looks like this too, which I gig with but I don’t have a cut control on my amp. I really don’t think it needs the cut control imo. I’m still experimenting with features and design for what I think is the perfect 6g3 type of amp. This amp has the ability to run either KT66 or 6v6 tubes for 30 or 20 watts. With KT66 tubes and a Alessandro neo GA-SC-X speaker the amp weighs in at 25 pounds which is still portable. I added test ports to rebias the tubes without having to pull the chassis. The switch in power tubes does require a rebias since it is a fixed bias amp and the transformer I’m using supplies a switchable voltage variation. The KT66 tubes sound really good in this design. I’m super excited about building amps and have other models I’m working on with more and less wattages. Who knows if I can make it a successful business, which for me would be just a small supplement to a retirement I hope to take in a couple of years.

If that is a crack I would be apprehensive about the guitar because it looks like it runs through all the mounting holes on the right side for the bridge, the string retainer and the Bigsby. Idk is $2700 is high for a perfect guitar but one with a big scratch I think it is and if it a crack it is way too high. As for the color, I love the blue and gold and the inlays are lovely on the fret board.

The first thing I do is remove the pick guard on a new guitar. I cannot stand them, they are in my way. One thing I like about a carved top guitar is the room it gives my fingers and pick guards take that away.

Let me fix what I said. I bend up a whole step not an octave! I would love to be able to bend up an octave but…….

Oof! 14s are some heavy hitters. I run 13s on a ‘47 Epiphone Triump but I don’t really bend strings on that. For an electric archtop with a cutaway I use 12s with a wrapped G. I can still bend the e and b strings up an octave with that gauge. I have no doubt that 14s sound good though, I’ve always been a fan of heavier string sound.