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ragamuffin said:
I built a 5e3 deluxe (in a headshell and with some mods) and it's a really great amp and much more versatile than a Champ for instance
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That's great to hear, I figured it would be a good one to start with. Any experience with the MojoTone stuff ? I love their pickups and also use their modified CTS pots.
 
Hagwood said:
That's great to hear, I figured it would be a good one to start with. Any experience with the MojoTone stuff ? I love their pickups and also use their modified CTS pots.
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Yeah Mojotone does good stuff! The base for my 5e3 was the Mojotone kit, I also bought the "small parts kit" from Mojotone for my 5f6 Bassman
 
Got my Tayda box today! I put my component tester to work measuring the gain of the transistors, which turned out to be pretty tightly grouped, not a lot of variance

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Built my first stripboard pedal, an Astrotone circuit with the Analgman specs with the layout from Dirtbox Layouts

The building process went fairly smoothly, though the off-board wiring got a little bit spaghetti-ish

I used a 1590b enclosure that I had and laid it out for topmounted jacks. While painting on the control labels/design I f'd up the "F", but I decided I was fine with that; fuzzy F for fuzz

Tonewise it's rockin'! It's a great "not too fuzzy" fuzz that sounds really nice with humbuckers. I own an Analogman Astrotone which I plan to sell now as mine sounds just as good!

The only hitch is that the enclosure won't quite shut all the way because one of my jacks sits up too high. I think I'll be able to grind down the jack frame and/or the lip of the enclosure backing to make it all fit.

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