Selected work
Two amplifier jobs and two builds from my bench. For the repairs, I’ve described the complaint, what I found, what I did, and what I could verify afterward.
1964 Fender Bassman
This Bassman had been installed in a non-original cabinet with three 10-inch speakers. I checked that the speaker load, as wired, matched the output transformer. It did.
The amp hummed and made other unusual sounds. Plugging or unplugging a guitar, or moving the cable at the input, could produce a loud pop. I replaced the input jack on one channel and reverted the non-original grounding to the stock scheme. In the final check, the popping was gone and the amp was back to normal. Its noise floor was lower than when it came in.
Wright Bandmaster
The customer stated that the amp sounded weak and should have been louder. At first the amp seemed normal, but I was able to reproduce the problem by moving the plug in the input jack. That pointed toward the input contacts, although I could not isolate a single contact as the cause.
I cleaned the input jacks, pots, and tube sockets and re-tensioned the ground contacts on the input jacks. Afterward, I could no longer reproduce the problem. The amp appeared to be operating normally, and the customer did not report the problem again.
MP-001 “The Contender”
Hand-wired amplifier build · August 2026
I based this amp on the 5F2-A Princeton, with a 10-inch Jensen speaker rather than the usual 8-inch format. A raw switch bypasses the tone control for a simpler, Champ-like path; another switch bypasses negative feedback.
This is my own build, not a vintage Fender or customer repair.
First Telecaster-style guitar
Scratch build · 2015
This was the first guitar I built from scratch. It belongs here as an example of construction work, rather than a repair.
Have a repair in mind? Send the make, model, symptoms, any previous work, and a few useful photos through the contact page. Please ask before shipping anything.
