I hate waiting for mail. I feel like sitting on top of the mailbox and throttling the mailman when he turns up dry.
Yep. I'm the impatient sort.
I've built quite a few amps - a couple 18 watts, a Lightning clone, a cute little 18 watt JCM 800, a Soldano Astroverb, a pile of AX84 style stuff, a Deluxe. etc - but I've never been this excited about a build. I've been a Gilmour fan forever and always wanted a HiWatt style amp, but I never really considered building one. The volume of a real HiWatt would be silly for me - like a bazooka in a Buddhist temple sort of thing. I think this is going to be the final G.A.S. inducing tool to reduce my guitar playing friends to husks of drooling finger twitching envy.
I'm going to take my time with this one (if I can). Teflon tubing on all exposed wiring, tool wire bends, etc. Heck, I might even spring for teflon wire for all of the guts. I'm definitely going to build a chassis cradle - I should have built one years ago.
Anyway, I will soon be one of the collective.
Stephen, I usually serial number my amps. Can you figure out the approximate number of my kit so I can make up a plate?
Thanks all - I'll be posting more as the parts arrive and the build progresses.
Rich