Felix wrote:
haledixon wrote:
ive got to disagree with you all about price... right now im in the process of building 2 5f6-a (tweed bassman) heads. i found the list of all the parts needed on the weber website and then kept an eye on ebay and shopped around and within a month had everything i needed to build 2 heads for less than $1000 (that's $1000 for BOTH heads, $500 each). i bought plain steel chassis from hammond and cut all the holes, drilled everything myself. if you take the time to shop around and dont mind doing some of the work (like machining the chassis), then you can definitely do it on the cheap. ive already got a nice amp so im not in too big a rush to get this done, so i can take a little time in tracking down parts for the best price or waiting for stuff to pop-up on ebay.
if you're interested i can send you a spreadsheet of all the parts i bought and where i found them.
also, ive already started gathering parts for my next build, a high power tweed twin that im building into a rackmount head unit. looks like this one is gonna run me about $600, tops.
Not sure if you're responding to my post.
But in my comparison, I'm referring to cost of a Marsh/CP kit vs. Mojotone amplifier kits, many of which are used in the two former sites I listed.
I know Weber, or the parts listed, come cheaper than the Marsh or CPamp kits, but I felt that the parts used to keep the price lower, didn't fly with me. If you found a Weber kit that uses better parts, by all means, I'm game for knowing it. I'm thinking that I would like an 18 watt clone built for me, and it would be seriously killer to have one for less than I've seen on Marsh.
you're right about weber using cheaper components to keep the price down - im not building a weber kit. weber has a spreadsheet on their site of all their kits and all the parts in their kit - i took that spreadsheet and made my own except for each part they had that was shoddy, i replaced it with one that was good. so like when they listed the part # for their cheap chinese switches and jacks, i looked around online til i found the best price on the number of switchcraft/carling switches and jacks and just added those to the spreadsheet. so i basically ended up with 2 columns - column 1 was all the parts that weber uses, column 2 is the same kind of parts, but quality components. so, in the end i didnt buy a kit from anywhere, just piecemealed my amps together from the best deals that i could find online. once i had a bigass shopping list of parts to get i just put some auto-notifications into ebay to email me when stuff popped up and then shopped around online to find the rest. most the stuff i got i ended up getting from tubedepot.com, turretboards.com and a few pieces from weber. comparison shopping is a pain in the ass but pays off sometime.
