Custom Designs
Here are some valve guitar amps custom made for clients around Australia.
Overdrive Five 5RR12
Five-watt push-pull amp using a 12BH7 twin triode for the power stage.
5Y3 valve rectifier. The pre-amp has an American Deluxe clean followed by a British Deluxe overdrive, with a valve driven Reverb. Designed for home studio recording, the amp has a Jazz/Rock switch, Bright and Deep switches, and switchable Overdrive.
The 12″ speaker is a well-worn in Sanyo unit found in a set of roadside hi-fi speakers.
The combo box was picked up from a cash convertors sale for $10 and re-covered.
The chassis is from an old transistor guitar amp, so I’ve also got another speaker to recycle later on.

Steampunk Guitar Amp 25R
The “Ampenstein” amp head is an all pentode amp, made up of two pentode gain stages (EF86 and 6J7) with a Baxandall tone stack (bass and treble) and a triode strapped 6J7 phase splitter driving a pair of 6L6GT power valves for 25 watts. GZ34 valve rectifier power supply.
The amp is finished with the steampunk aesthetic, with a brass plate etched using electrolysis and mild acid. The pattern behind each control knob is taken from the 2010 season of crop circles in the UK. If Doctor Frankenstein played guitar, he would have used this amp.
“Ampenstein can achieve controlled distortion from ANY and ALL of the valves from preamp to phase inverter to power section! I only had a half hour to mess with it last night, but there are at least 3 or 4 tonal flavours available seperately – one from from each valve, and these can be combined for even more flavour.“
Vibroverb Custom 15 (15RR115)
Single channel amp with 15 watt 6V6 cathode biased power amp with GZ34 rectifier.
Power stage tremolo injection.
American Deluxe with reverb and Texas overdrive.
Combo cabinet with Weber 15A150 15″ alnico speaker.
This amp was inspired by the 6G16 Vibroverb circuit, with some mods to suit the customer’s requirements.
Vintage Deluxe 6V6 jazz amp 18RR210
6V6 18 watt cathode-biased power amp with GZ34 rectifier.
Optimised for jazz and hollow body guitars, the tone stack has Gain, Bass Middle Treble and a rotary Hi-Treble (instead of the traditional Bright switch), reverb Dwell and Mix, and Volume.
Weber 10A150P and 10F125P 10″ speakers in a front ported cabinet.
Vintage Deluxe EL34 Triode jazz amp 20RR12
EL34 20 watt cathode biased power amp with GZ34 rectifier.
Optimised for jazz guitar, the tone stack has Gain, Bass Middle Treble and a rotary Hi-Treble (instead of the traditional Bright switch), reverb Dwell and Mix, and Master Volume.
Weber 12F125S 12”speaker
Vintage Deluxe EL34 triode jazz amp 30R110
EL34 cathode-biased triode power amp with solid state rectifier.
30 watts mostly Class A.
Optimised for jazz and hollow body guitars, the tone stack has Bass Middle Treble and Hi-Treble (rotary control instead of the traditional Bright switch), reverb Dwell and Mix, and Volume. Dark jazz switch. Compress control (an idea borrowed from Gibson amps, needs to be refined).
Weber Neomag 10″ speaker with aluminium dome.