18Watt.com

I'm NOT involved with the running of this site but I do think this site is amazing.

It must actually be only a couple of months ago that I discovered the site. I now have a beautiful sounding 18 watt amp I know I'll use preofessionally and will cherish. How amazing is that!

This is only possible due to THIS site and the good people that run it as well as the great suppliers that are available through the site and the contributor, ie you and I.

The site has no massively huge faceless commercial companies to my knowledge...just small businesses who provide human contact and good old fashioned service.
I love it.

When my amp was built it had bugs.
No problem! Just post the site and see what help comes back. Plenty of help arrived and people like Richie etc saw me through my trouble. They can't do it for you but they are willing to share their knowledge and help.

I just wanted to raise a glass to the site and it's members and also say...

LET'S MAKE A SMALL DONATION in thanks for the help we get!

The site must cost money to run and must take people's time.

no pressure though!

Funny you should post this at this time. I made a donation a while back and was just thinking that I need to do it again. I only have one complaint about this site. I am so addicted to it that I think my wife is going to divorce me for spending too much time in front of my computer.

Greg

zenstate, HeeBGB...

thanks for the nice words and donations, as weel as for the others who contribunted one way or another so generousely towards the maintenance of this website. I really appreciate this tremendeousely!

Yes, the web site plays a good part in this community, but where would it be without the selfless contribution of so many members, I cannot even start listing here?
I am only the cyber boy here who takes care of the website, but I also am one who benefits of it's great resources made available from so many members!

There are still a lot of other "improvements" that are waiting in line to take place on this website that I still have to find the time. That time will come slowly.

By all means you guys showd great support over these years, (including The Flood time too - hehehe) and this is greatly appreciated!

This is again the greatest place to be and I am glad that I can be a part of and help of any sort.

Thank you all,
Gabi (the cyber boy)

PS: Don't divorce! Talke her into building amps! She'll love it! hehehehe

Gabi wrote: Don't divorce! Talk her into building amps! She'll love it! hehehehe

My guitar-playing EE wife still doesn't see the point of building tube amps. OK, she plays an acoustic guitar, so she doesn't need an amp. One time she so wanted me to finish the amp I was building, that she sat down beside me with her soldering iron, wire cutters and pliers, and got busy. She still didn't catch the bug...

zaphod_phil wrote:One time she so wanted me to finish the amp I was building, that she sat down beside me with her soldering iron, wire cutters and pliers, and got busy. She still didn't catch the bug...

Did she want you to finish the amp so she could hear it, or so that you'd get the !$%#^& mess off the table?

Unfortunately, it was the latter reason. On Sunday she found me soldering some anti-buzz diodes into this same amp and said, "I thought you had finished that amp!"

BTW it turns out that an 18W makes a surprisingly good amp for acoustic guitar...

Good point zenstate

OK, here's my plan, I've got a populated 18W board that Nik (ceriatone) made for me about... (yikes!)... a year ago. Thing is, I've since rounded up parts for a 'vintage-correct' perf board 18Wer that will be the next 18W project, so I was thinking about selling this one. From memory, it's an eyelet board with orange drop caps and Sprague atoms. Never installed.

But how about I let it go - for say $40 - on the understanding that whoever buys it simply donates the money to Gabi? And I'll pay the shipping (exception - anyone whose postcode is "Soyuz 1").

I'll dig out the photo of the board that Nik sent me, if anyone's interested. If no-one wants it right now, I'll post an ad in the Classified section and wait for someone to come along.

Loverocker,
I'll take that deal email me.
bnwitt@hotmail.com
Barry

My wife has a lot of experience in electronics and used to make hand wired prototype computer based gear in the 1970s in a University.
She also has an HNC in Electronics. Her soldering puts me to shame, and her work is ultra neat.

When I retire and go into valve amps full time I might even give her a job

As for an acoustic through an 18 Watt OR a 36 Watt the drummer goes all gooey when I play the acoustic, and he is an ex paratrooper now a scaffolder.

It is brilliant with an acoustic (bought new in 1969 Hummingbird Jumbo copy) through one of our clones.
Why ? through a solid state it sounds like tinny Sh*te,

Steve UK

"""Her soldering puts me to shame, and her work is ultra neat. """

A whole lot of the marshall and Fender amps were put together by women..

As for the site,and the members that make it all work,are some of the best i've seen anywhere. And i'm really glad to be a part of this forum.There has been a ton of info shared from the first day we started going about gathering the info to build these amps. Only bad thing is, its addicting..

Richie

Barry (bnwitt) - I've lost the photo of the board that Nik sent me, so I'll snap another one later today and email it to you.

testing, testing... first post here...

I figure this is a good thread to make my entrance on. This place is fantastic! I've been contemplating building an 18 watt clone for a number of years, but for one reason or another have never gotten around to it. Thanks to this community my enthusiasm has been renewed.

Cheers, Colin.

Hi guys,

I also wanna raise a glass to the 18watt.com (especially to Gabi) and it's members...

Cheers !!

eleven wrote:testing, testing... first post here...

I figure this is a good thread to make my entrance on. This place is fantastic! I've been contemplating building an 18 watt clone for a number of years, but for one reason or another have never gotten around to it. Thanks to this community my enthusiasm has been renewed.

Cheers, Colin.

That's excellent...very similar to my experience...

Build the amp!

You'll love it...

I have two 18watt's that I have just completed. The tremolo doesn't work but I think I can figure that out. I would like to thank PEDALmonkey for the great drawings and schematics. I built mine from scratch so the drawings and equipment list were a huge help. (it would be nice if the pin out of the tremolo circuit from PEDALmonkey's schematic matched the Graydon layout!)
The amps sound great to me. I have played an strat, a martin, and a CD player through them.
One day I will get smart enough to post clips.