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[Tone Junkie]

Ive been trolling and reading this forum for a while you guys have answered many of my questions without even asking.  Im a father of 3 lovely daughters who lives north of seattle in Washington state . Im hopelessly addicted to amp building. On my work bench is a freshly completed marshall 1987 lead waiting for tubes and a music man amp quickly being converted to a ab763 circuit . With a jtm 45 and tweed bandmaster sitting behind it in differant stages of completion, luckily its a big work bench. Like I said hopelessly addicted, but loving every minit of it. Thanks Bill   

[Geezer]

Hey Bill, welcome aboard (finally!) 

[tubesornothing]

Welcome Bill.  Ahhh the pacific north west - Blaine?  Bellingham? 

Post lots of pictures if you can, its always fun seeing how different people put their amps together.

[Tone Junkie]

Geezer I am very interested in your latest input on the hoso56 design i think you switched the name  to opus I would love to build a two channel version with a quad of 6qa5, i think it is a 5979 with another triode tube in series to get to the sweet spot . For some reason this really peaks my curiousity  Bill

[Tone Junkie]

Tubes or nothing its only my 4th build the 1987 marshall circuit anyway , My leade dress leaves something to be desired but no matter how much reading I do about it, no one gives anything but wishy washy answers about what I can put next to each other and what to definatly keep away from other than heaters and and mains of the pt. My first amp I did one of those what I thought would be a perfect lead dress with everything pulled together with plastic tyes howled like a banshee untill I cut all the tyes and moved everything away from each other then was quiet as a church mouse, I guess we shouldnt build a bit of a high gain circuit into your first build. but Im learning quickly, Im lucky to have these great forums to look at and read from you guys are great.

[tubesornothing]

My first amp I did one of those what I thought would be a perfect lead dress with everything pulled together with plastic tyes howled like a banshee untill I cut all the tyes and moved everything away from each other then was quiet as a church mouse

he he ... me too.

[Frankenamp]

Was up in the Seattle area in the late 80's thanks to Uncle Sam's canoe club... loved the weather (rain & all) and even befriended a realtor to hook me up with a MLS book for the Seattle Aurora area (I was sick with envy)  One of the few places I would really want to move to. As far as lead dress goes, any time I want to feel inadequate and jealous at the same time- I just look a a few pix of the old HIWATT guts.