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Bill A. Moore


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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
Post  Posted 4 Jan 2010 12:06 pm    
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I started this project over a year ago, and I finally got to hear it saturday. Haven't put it in a permanent cabinet yet, but it sounds great!
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Justin Griffith


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Taylor, Texas, USA
Post  Posted 5 Jan 2010 4:51 am    
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Looks nice!
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Bill A. Moore


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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
Post  Posted 5 Jan 2010 7:23 am    
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Thanks, Justin.
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Marc Jenkins


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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Post  Posted 5 Jan 2010 10:18 am    
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Ya, looks great Bill! Is that a Weber kit?
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Bill A. Moore


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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
Post  Posted 5 Jan 2010 10:58 am    
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Marc, it's a Weber chassis. I used a Watts turret board, CTS pots, Mallory and Sprague Atom caps. Hammond transformers,(except the 94 Twin OT), switchcraft jacks, and Carling switches,(which 1 is intermittant). The pre tubes are mostly NOSS RCA, and the power tubes are Winged"C".
It's a lot more work than it would seem. I realize that our friend Ken earns every penny he makes from his beautiful creations.
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Marc Jenkins


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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Post  Posted 5 Jan 2010 12:13 pm    
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Nice, Bill! Got any pics of the good side?
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Dave Sharp

 

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Bloomington, Indiana
Post  Posted 5 Jan 2010 12:20 pm    
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Wow -- looks great!

I built a Princeton Reverb clone and I thought that was a lot of work...
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Greg Cutshaw


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Corry, PA, USA
Post  Posted 5 Jan 2010 12:21 pm    
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Yup, need pics of the "good" side. Your workmanship is awesome. What king of cabinet is it going into?

Greg
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Bill A. Moore


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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
Post  Posted 5 Jan 2010 12:46 pm    
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Thanks for the kind words, here is a couple of internal pictures. I ran the heater wires close to the chassis like the later Fender design, and ran the signal wires over the top. I also ran shielded wire to the jacks, tone stacks, and the reverb circuit. It is very quiet for a "Twin"

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Ken Fox


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Nashville GA USA
Post  Posted 5 Jan 2010 2:41 pm    
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Did you have one of the later Twin O.T. with the 600 balanced out for the XLR?
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Bill A. Moore


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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
Post  Posted 5 Jan 2010 2:55 pm    
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Yeah, Ken, the 94 Twin OT has an extra secondary winding for the line out, (don't know if I'll ever use it), I really wanted the 4, 8, 16, ohm output, for more versatility. Also added an extra shorting jack with the ground lifted, for a series speaker option.
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Cartwright Thompson


Post  Posted 5 Jan 2010 4:14 pm    
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In a word, awesome. I'd love to hear it.
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Bill A. Moore


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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
Post  Posted 5 Jan 2010 5:05 pm    
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Greg, it currently is in a well used Mojo cabinet with only 1 EVM-12L loaded, but I am also running a JBL 15 in an external cabinet. Both sound great, but together it fills my little practice room.
Now don't laugh, but it's final cabinet is also a work in progress. I plan to load an old EV SRO 15 into it. One of my customers built it for me, with the small diameter ponderosa pine we are paying to have cut down. I don't intend to haul it around, so I'm just going to stain it,(hopefully close to the faded LDG color).
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