This thread is too quiet so I will make some noise...
I built my Mini last Sunday including a base made of Poplar, the popular was a fortuitous find since with my original base I managed to compound error after error until I surrendered it to the cutoff pile. That will teach me to complicate simple things.
I managed to bias the Left channel on Tuesday night and ended up with 299mV and 11.52V after ~ an hour so and the bias did not fluctuate so am confident the bias will hold. Will check it again in any case. I used Kevins Youtube video for guidance.
The Right channel hopefully I will get to tonight.
So, no music yet but no smoke either, thats still a good thing in my book.
I had to substitute a few parts due to shortages but nothing drastic, the 3% Power resistors I replaced with 1% (so its even better

) and the super capacitor was a slightly more expensive model, the specified model was out of stock so I also "Upgraded" it, I think it was a whole 50 cents more.
I got everything from Digikey and the Diystore.
Maybe this weekend it will make music.
Oh, and BTW, even my wife thinks it cute. Thats high praise right there.
Anyone else making progress?
Thanks again to all who made this possible.