Once all the parts got in it was time to start
Top plate is aluminum. Note my work area ie. my kitchen table with the stool i use for sitting down while tying shoes used for drilling holes through the handle hole.
Here is the back panel built out of oak board. The plug for the power jack was made by drilling a bunch of tiny holes then cutting it out and filling it till my arms fell off.
The bottom part made out of plywood. I drilled the holes for let some air in.
Beer and a puny pumpkin used to put the pressure on the glued construction. Harp bear sucks. Someone brought it to me and its been sitting in my closet for a while now.
I was painting in front of my door to the horror of my 100 year old neighbors. I hijacked the laundry drying thingy to dry the primer paint.
I'm guessing neighbors didn't like the square created after I removed the inadequate plastic cover I was using
Slap some primer on.
Now that the primer is done time to slap some color on it. Its colonial red, and before you ask me why red let me preemptively answer and say thats the closest I could find to mohagony at home depot.
After a few coats of colonial red time to let it dry a bit.
Couldn't find a way to hang the top plate onto the drying contraption so I hung in on the balcony overnight.
Mount the sockets and the transformer.And start fitting it all together.
Slap the sides on.
I thought i was pretty clever when I though of putting the biasing pots together up front and hiding them behind a brass plate for easy access. Had I known how much of a pain in the ass that will turn into I would have scrapped that idea.
Back side almost complete. Later I put some banana jacks and made them into biasing points.
Finished box.
Back view before I put them biasing jacks there as well.
Now that the wood and metal work is out of the way time to get down to business. Here is a schematic I drew on a single piece of paper so I have a big picture in my head.
Let the games begin. Pay no attention to the analog meter, My digital one crapped out and I was waiting for the new one in the mail.
Trying our best to keep it neat but point to point gets busy fast!
Almost there
Call the bomb squad I don't know which wire to cut!!!
After some grief filled day of troubleshooting all the things wrong whose details I wont bother you with. It was ready to be tried out with some input.
I grabbed a very first CD I had near me (turned out it was Johnny Cash) and slapped it into the PS 1 which works only about 10% of the time and hooked up the dynaco A25s. With no preamp or volume control I turned it on and hoped for the best. And then BLAAAAAAAAAAM. Johnny came out at full volume shaking walls. I was jumping up and down like a retard not wanting to shut it off.
Oh yeah baby. It was a good day!
