I've always loved the Fender Blackface amps of the early 60s. A vintage Vibro Champ will cost around $1,000, so I thought I'd build my own tribute. This started out with a 6 bottle wine crate and cut the beveled edge on the front top. I added strips of wood to anchor the speaker baffle and the slats for the 1/3 open back. I used a Dremel hole cutter to cut the opening for the 8" speaker baffle and covered it with the traditional Fender silver grill cloth. I added a 5 watt so

I've always like the look of the vintage Gibson amps. Especially, the EH-150 amp with the great tweed covering, pin stripes, leather...

An Airline 8512 was my very first guitar amplifier. I bought it used along with a used Danelectro U1 guitar back when I was probably 11...

Merson was a distribution organization founded by a man named Bernie Mersky in New York City. The Merson Tempo guitar amp was a tube amp...