Board Leads Soldering

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 by Gabi

This week’s video tip is about soldering the leads to the turret board to have a strong connection. The wire I am using is PVC insulated topcoat stranded wire (20 AWG).

Caffeinated Amp Building

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 by Gabi

This is what happens if you have too much coffee before building guitar amps! In a way, I wish this would be the case! I could build with the speed of one amp every 3 minutes or so!

The time lapse amp building video features me building a Gabriel Stinger 7 watt that’s now at Fat Tone Guitars. There were a total of 8.45 hours of amp building spread out in a span of 7 days (an hour or two of work every day). There were 3,657 shots taken at an interval of 7 seconds with a Nikon D40.

Leave a comment if you like coffee!!

My Weller WTCPT Soldering Station

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 by Gabi
Weller WTCPT Soldering Station

Weller WTCPT Soldering Station

Many of you asked me about what soldering station am I using for my amps, so I thought of posting the info and a short review, and hopefully spare you from spending cash on cheap ones (as I did).

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Gabtone Live TV Resumes

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 by Gabi
Live Gabtone Shop Cam

Live Gabtone Shop Cam

Short one here folks, to announce that the live Gabtone TV Shop Cam will resume in work days afternoons (usually at around 4:00 pm CST) for those of you curious on tube guitar amp building.

I don’t promise it will be a two way communication (as I need to concentrate at what I’m building) but I’ll read the chat from time to time just in case you have questions about what in the world I am doing!

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