The Tode is emerging

Maxwell_E

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I spent all weekend glued to this table and I'm a happy camper for it. While I'm waiting on a single resistor, I'll put some pictures of beast and start putting my finish on the cabinet. Cheers.

Too lazy to downsize my pics, made an imgur album instead.
http://imgur.com/a/xbhQv
 
Hey, while I've got you here, the 1M Ohm 1/8th watt resistor was missing. I can get a carbon 1% replacement from work, but the picture makes me think it's a fancy film type. Is it critical that it be like the one in the manual?
 
So I finished this soon after the first post, but I've been having too much fun playing it to take pictures and talk about it. This thing freakin rocks. The internal speaker is great for practicing and taking to a friends house, but this amp has some balls. Running it into my homemade 2x12" cabinet I have to keep the brake at or below 3 on the dial lest I piss of my housemates. The EMish and EFish settings are spot on too, with the EFish setting perfectly channeling my 1972 Fender Pro Reverb with clear voice and bell-tones on top of chords. The amp is wonderfully dynamic too. I love setting the feedback right at the breaking point and playing softly on my guitar to get a nice clean tone and then digging in to set this thing screaming. I'm glad I have this external cabinet to allow for more experimentation too. It's a clone of a Hiwatt with a closed back and a few vents in the back, but now I'm looking into a semi-open or even full open to get more treble and upper-mids. But I digress.

Way to go, Doc. You knocked this one out of the park. Now I just need to join a band so I can show it off all over town.

http://imgur.com/a/QfH8P
 
Alright Max! Thanks for the kind words. The Tode looks great and I forgot how pretty that SG of yours is - with those badass TV Jones pickups.  Tode does make a good head amp and I hope folks share their experiences driving various cabs. I've been playing around with my new jazz box with my Tode running a 12" Eminence Legend in a funky 40's style open back wall mount cabinet. Next I'm gonna try driving a pair of Hammond DR-20 cabinets, with push-pull parallel 2A3s, two 12" field coil Jensens each and oil reverb...
 
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