The Christmas break saw me very busy with tasks other than amp building. So the new SET is a little behind schedule. In spite of it supposedly being a “quiet” Christmas with just immediate family, I ended up tackling several small projects which I had been putting off and I helped my daughter move. And of course I was back at work this week as well. Now that doesn’t mean that I got nothing accomplished, it just means that things are progressing slower than anticipated. This is where I’m at:
The wood is cut and all the basic joints, and top/bottom plate reliefs, are cut. From this point I need to complete the layouts for all the penetrations, make the openings, and rout reliefs for backside metal attachment. After all that is complete, I’ll glue up the chassis and finish the final shaping and sanding. Once the chassis is completed “in the raw”, I will begin cutting metal. In this case both copper and aluminum plate.
This finally is beginning to feel like a real project as opposed to just an idea. I was beginning to feel like I was stringing folks along on this new amp. Then I realized that it was only back in August when I completed the 6CY7 Zebrawood V2 amplifier. So I’ve only been cogitating on this new project for about four months. For me that’s almost no time at all.
Also, while digging around in my stash, I found this forgotten pair of 6AS7s sitting on a shelf with a bunch of industrial 6080 tubes.
One of these should look really good in the center of the new amp. This gives me a new impetus to get things moving again. More progress should be coming soon.