Custom Deluxe Reverb Build video series

[mayfly]

Hey all,

I'm building a custom Deluxe Reverb for a client. Aaaaaand I'm doing a video series on it.

Here's the first video!

[youtube]https://youtu.be/AcUz0bjcoS8[/youtube]

 

[stratamania]

Cool, looking forward to following this build.

I am guessing CSA approval is a Canadian standard?

 

[mayfly]

Yep.  It's actually one of the most strict safety standards in the world.  If it passes CSA it will pass anything.

and here's the next video!

[youtube]https://youtu.be/_zE47RyOklM[/youtube]

 

[ragamuffin]

Nice! I've always wanted to build an amp... I've been reading/watching a lot of content on how amps and tubes work lately. Any recommendations on resources/things I should know before attempting to build a kit?

 

[mayfly]

Hmmm.  Well, if you don't have any formal training in electronics I would not recommend it.  Voltages inside a tube amp are high enough to kill you, and it's easy to get something wrong if you don't have some training to guide you through the basics.

 

[mayfly]

and here's the next video!

[youtube]https://youtu.be/IVrUuHdC8xg[/youtube]

 

[PhilHill]

Excellent job on the vids! However, don't you think it's time for a haircut, you hippie... :laughing7: All seriousness aside though, I'm gonna be watching this closely, I find it fascinating.

 

[mayfly]

Hey!  I like my hair!  First time I've had it this long.

 

[mayfly]

aaaand here's the next video!

[youtube]https://youtu.be/Iugt7lBUe3M[/youtube]

 

[mayfly]

and....  here is the video following that!

[youtube]https://youtu.be/V1SVtkhZnTQ[/youtube]

 

[PhilHill]

Outstanding. I'm liking this series....And I was just joking about the hair, saying it was too long because the sides look like Marine Regulation. Overall though it looks fine.  :icon_thumright: :icon_thumright:

 

[mayfly]

Thanks!  I've actually got sort of a punk rock hair cut right now.  Short on the sides and looong up top.

 

[mayfly]

Heeeeeerrrrssss the next video!

[youtube]https://youtu.be/D-KJZXuuX2A[/youtube]

 

[mayfly]

and here's the next!

[youtube]https://youtu.be/YrtPtJ-TTeU[/youtube]

 

[Rick]

Mayfly ... you got skills!

 

[PhilHill]

I picture Leo Fender looking down and smiling............. :icon_thumright:

 

[stratamania]

There seems to be a lot of errors in this kit. Is that normal?

 

[mayfly]

Well, I guess you could say the kit requires 'fettling'.  Kind of the difference between getting your guitar parts from Guitar Fetish and Warmoth:  in the end you get a great instrument, but the Guitar Fetish route requires quite a bit of 'fettling'.

 

[stratamania]

Fettling seems to be the term that applies. Just I would have thought a kit would have thought these things through.

 

[Rick]

Shoot ... we don't use fettling like that, in the US I reckon we'd say adjustments.  Though we would use it as term of condition, like it's in good or fine fettle.  I guess we forgot.