

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 an 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...