Hi folks. I'm 62, nearing retirement from a long IT career in Enterprise architecture and development. I've recently took the guitar out of the closet warmed up a 12AX7/EL34 tube amp that I made some time ago. I want to build another, better one, for a friend that's looking for less physical work and plays guitar. I would like to make tube amps on demand for other guitarists as a retirement gig. I need to blow the dust off of my education 40+ years ago and work with my friend to build another tube amp. My first post will be in Power Supplies, to discuss technicals around the "need" for a $100 Hammond transformer. I would think that I should determine my circuit power needs and then design a more economical solution.
Anyhow, great to be here and I can't wait getting to know the other nerds here. Funny story: when I was little my grandfather would let me destroy all these broken amps, radios, tvs, etc. with diagonal cutters, and then my grandmother would get so mad because I left all these little leads in the rug upstairs and she couldn't get them all out of the rug. I wasn't fixing anything really but I sure do relish the memories and the experience.
David L Whitehurst (dlwhitehurst)
Anyhow, great to be here and I can't wait getting to know the other nerds here. Funny story: when I was little my grandfather would let me destroy all these broken amps, radios, tvs, etc. with diagonal cutters, and then my grandmother would get so mad because I left all these little leads in the rug upstairs and she couldn't get them all out of the rug. I wasn't fixing anything really but I sure do relish the memories and the experience.
David L Whitehurst (dlwhitehurst)
