Choose my logo placement

[dodgechargerfan]

Looking for opinions on placing the Scamp logo on the amp that I built last fall.

This is just placed on there for now, and the pins on the back keep it from sitting flat.

I may grind the pins off and just glue it on. depending on placement.

The amp is built from a kit and is called a Tramp. Since I built it and not the company, they don't provide the logos - in case someone sells their down the road, they want to make sure they maintain their brand.
So, I thought about how to tie in cars, and in particular, MOPAR, and here ya go.

 

[71dusterman]

In the middle?

 

[Dr.Jass]

Grille, exactly as shown. I love it.

 

[dodgechargerfan]

That seems to be the consensus of everyone so far.

I'll take a run at it tomorrow.

 

[dodgechargerfan]

Done.
I painted the black in again and then cleaned up the chrome a bit.
I ended up cutting the posts off of the emblem and gluing it on because the cloth is raised up off of the baffle board behind it.

 

[Diplomat_Wagon]

Grille, exactly as shown. I love it.

Ditto. :giggedy:

 

[65furyIII]

Me liky much.
Spot on,

 

[dodgechargerfan]

Thanks!
It was fun to build the guts and it turned out to be an amazing amp.
One that I wouldn't have been able to afford to buy already built.
It has surprised a few working musicians with its tone - especially the clean tone.

I did have to pay for an amp building boot camp, but I look at it as the cost of obtaining the knowledge in a shorter period of time. Looking back at the process, I could have easily built the amp from the kit with the included instructions, but that's hind sight talking. Hindsight coupled with the experience of the build. The instructors added a lot of tips and tricks as well as amp theory during the course.

I didn't build the cabinet on this one, but I think I will on the next kit I build.

 

[Dr.Jass]

Congratulations, DCF. Though the electronics are different (particularly with tubes), you're realizing the satisfaction that I get from building my own home speakers. I recently ran my refurbished '70s cabinets against a pair of somewhat-expensive store-bought speakers, and mine just blew them out of the water... at much less than half the cost.

 

[dodgechargerfan]

Yeah, tubes are interesting things to work with.

I learned all about what they are and what they do when I learned electronics in school, but then we quickly moved on to "the better way to do it" with transistors and integrated circuits.

I think both tube and silicon have their applications, but tubes bring such interesting characteristics and I like that changing a tube, even for the same part number, will change the tone.

That's cool about the speakers. Another thing on my to-do list is to build an extension cabinet for this thing and start playing with different speakers. There's not too much to that though, it comes down to the speakers and just how you wire them up. There's nothing fancy like a crossover circuit or anything like that.

 

[thrashingcows]

Looks great DCF...I like it!!

A buddy of mine is into 70's and 80's high end stereo stuff. He rebuilt and restored some crazy Bose pedestal speakers that are worth thousands. The sound from the speakers he's collected is second to none. So much for modern technology.

 

[Matt43]

Perfect!