Beautiful Chassis

[KatieandDad]

Knowing how all you "tubies" are always looking for nice chassis to mount your glassware into, I have just spotted this chassis on E-Bay.

Valab Type 1 Tube Amplifier Chassis -- Palisander Red Wood Frame for Audio DIY | eBay

 

[TubeHead Johnny]

Very nice looking enclosure, but you can make one at a fraction of the cost.

 

[weskoki]

Not everyone has the time and space to make something like that.

 

[TubeHead Johnny]

Not everyone has the time and space to build an amplifier either.

 

[tim614]

To save $ I will make time

 

[Wavebourn]

Not everyone has time to cut holes in the bottom lid for proper ventilation.

 

[FullRangeMan]

Beautiful hard wood work, the 3mm alu table is nice, manufacturers use 1mm steel, the prob are the extra cost as ship and custom house duties, otherwise a good option.

 

[freax]

this is a very nice chassis, but the power switch is illegal here, switches here must be dpst.

It might make a real nice tube preamp case, i'm on the lookout for one, tho to justify that much real estate i would have to use octal coke bottle rectifiers, octal coke bottle 0C3 vreg tubes and a couple of 813's for mood lighting..

What do you guys think?

 

[tinitus]

price is certainly fair
raw alu alone could cost that
but general wood finish look a bit rough

 

[12B4A]

If one doesn't have a drill press, table/band saw, sander, and the various metal/wood finishing hand tools, then it is a fairly decent deal. Yes, it is logically possible to build something like that or better at a fraction of the cost but that is only looking at the cost of raw materials.

 

[deicide67]

I agree. It's a very fair price. You guys are all hitting the aluminum, but 2 board feet of some hardwoods can cost $25-60. Add the aluminum which would cost the average DIYer $25-35, and you just spent $50-90. Then finish, tooling, etc.

It's fair. I build my own chassis and do my own woodwork, but that's because I'm tooled for it.

 

[jlsem]

It's a bit dishonest for the seller to describe the wood as palisander. It looks to be padauk. Palisander is Brazilian rosewood which is much finer, rarer, and way more expensive.

John

 

[deicide67]

I wil not get into wood species, but even at that, there is at least $25-30 in wood if it is Padauk.

 

[FullRangeMan]

It's a bit dishonest for the seller to describe the wood as palisander. It looks to be padauk. Palisander is Brazilian rosewood which is much finer, rarer, and way more expensive.

John

Palisander is named Jacarandá in the local language, is a much rare dark rosewood with a smell, I dont see a piece of this wood since the 70s years.

Local guitarist are always look for old forniture of this wood to hand on it to his luthier to do a guitar neck or even guitar body.

Jacarandá-da-bahia ? Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre

 

[FullRangeMan]

I wil not get into wood species, but even at that, there is at least $25-30 in wood if it is Padauk.

It looks a padauk wood indeed, which in not bad too.
Google

 

[deicide67]

I agree, my point was that regardless of misrepresentation, it is still a fair price.

Everyone, once in a while, gets a piece of "what's this wood?" stock, and ends up at the mercy of best guesses. Heck, I build almost exclusively out of hardwood and I am guilty.

 

[FullRangeMan]

I agree, my point was that regardless of misrepresentation, it is still a fair price.

Everyone, once in a while, gets a piece of "what's this wood?" stock, and ends up at the mercy of best guesses. Heck, I build almost exclusively out of hardwood and I am guilty.

At this price it is a good offer with any wood.
I understand you built audio equip chassis with hard woods.
For tube amps sides I prefer soft woods, they sink the microphony and transforner resonances in a nice way.

 

[tinitus]

would be more like Mahogany
but whatever, must be really cheap labour work
I can barely buy plywood at that price
no wonder the rain forrest is going down fast

 

[deicide67]

I just "generalized" hardwoods. Here is one I am doing now with Mahogany and Maple.

 

[KatieandDad]

this is a very nice chassis, but the power switch is illegal here, switches here must be dpst.

It might make a real nice tube preamp case, i'm on the lookout for one, tho to justify that much real estate i would have to use octal coke bottle rectifiers, octal coke bottle 0C3 vreg tubes and a couple of 813's for mood lighting..

What do you guys think?

Now come-on. If you are building a DIY amplifier you can change a switch !!!! I can't see anywhere in the advert that it states that it is a SPST switch ?