

The ultimate Smokey Amp experience
I previously wrote about building a cigarette pack-sized amplifier. The inspiration for the one I built came from something called the...


Turning a Monoprice amp into a Fender Tweed
Monoprice makes a great 15 watt tube amp, but it has this ugly mashed potato colored Tolex covering on it it which I couldn't stand...


Lucky Strike Cigarette Pack Amp
I've been making a lot of mini amps lately and was wondering how small I could go. Like maybe a size that would fit in a shirt pocket...


Acoustasonic Tribute
Fender makes a wonderful model called the Acoustasonic that gives you the sound of n acoustic guitar with the light weight, smaller size...


Bicentennial License Plate Tenor Banjo
Back during the 1976 bicentennial, Michigan issued this beautiful license plate with the stars and stripes. I was going to school at...


Lightweight bass amp
I built myself both a cigar box bass and a ukulele bass and have modified a Jaguar bass, so I wanted to have a bass amp. I didn't want...


Retro Radio Amp
I saw on CB Gitty's site (good source for Cigar Box Guitar parts) that someone had made a guitar from a lunchbox that looked like an old...


Philco Radio Amp
This is a Philco radio from 1949. I removed the tiny 3x5 oval speaker and extended the slits in the wood to fit in a 6" x 9" speaker to...


Epiphone Electar Century
Epiphone started selling their Electar Century amp model in 1939 at a price of $62.25. It was originally a 4 watt tube amp with a 12"...


GE Wall Speaker
General Electric has been a big manufacturer in the electronics space for decades. They not only made products for the consumer market...