Completed Projects

Here are some completed repairs/restorations

What was old and broken is now ready to sing once again!

What!? A 100 Watt Vox? It's true! This amp needed some general service and cosmetic help to get it back to life. It's sounding great with very healthy tubes.

1969 Standel Studio 30 What a great amp. 100w of clean power. When it arrived, it would just blow fuses. A few transistors, some reverb tank work, and it's really impressive!

1978 Carvin CM140 Guitar. Very cool electric guitar. It got a setup, cleanup and polish. It's now in the hands of a new owner.

Blackbird Super OM Carbon Fiber Guitar. Clean-up/set up and it was ready to go. Sold.

Traynor YCV40WR Anniversary Edition. This amp is from 2004. It arrived with the reverb broken. General service + Reverb tank and it's a rock machine!

Peavey Triumph 60 Ultra-Gain. This 1991 Amp is the loudest single 12" amp I've ever heard. A clean up and general service got this one ready to roll.

Marshall Vintage Modern 2266C amplifier from 2007. What a beauty! General service and then sold to a new home.

1968 Ampeg SB-12 Flip-Top. What a treasure, with the original speaker and everything! A clean up, new handle, general service, and off to a new owner.

This Peavey KB60 barely worked when it arrived at the shop. It came right back to life with a general service. It's a 2 channel amp with a spring reverb. Sold.

1964 Standel Reverbaluxe. This is a Tel-Ray Adineko (Oil Can) Delay. It took some work, but new filter caps, a power cord, and oil service got it going. How Cool!

Epiphone Junior rescued from a pawn shop. Even budget guitars get help here. Adjustments/setup/clean and polish. Sold

Conn Stroboconn 6T-5. The legendary electro-mechanical strobe tuner. Repaired, restored, and then matched up with an ORIGINAL mic. In Mr. V's personal collection

Kustom K200B1 from 1969. This one made weird airplane noise on the bright channel. A transistor, and a capacitor solved that mess. Quite a fun old unit.

Conn Strobotuners...I've fixed many of these. The industry standard tuner for classrooms and what not since the late 40's.

Yamaha VR5000 Amplifier. This one is solid state, and has a wealth of tone controls plus spring reverb. With all the pots and switches, it was bound to need some service, but it came back to life. 80's era.

What a monster amp! At 130 watts of tube power, with a solid state front end, this amp really means business. Only some minor repairs and a bit of restore to the finish, and it went to a new home.

70's Era Fender Twin Reverb. 100w with master volume. Altec speakers gave this amp a hi-fi sound. It got a full re-cap job while here.

70's Fender Bassman 100. Someone replaced a pot in here with one that just didn't belong.... so I solved that. Big and clean.

This little Yamaha has 50 watts of power through a 12" speaker with spring reverb and a "fuzz" circuit. Surfs up!

An early Kustom K200 with its original Jensen cabinet. No bad moon for this one, just a bath and servicing.

Ampeg Reverbojet II

This amp just screams "Rockabilly" to me... it's relatively clean, and has an incredible Gibbs reverb driven by a transformer-less 6U10 Tube. Original CTS Speaker to boot. Simply amazing amp from 1967

An 80's Solid state amp that resembles a Twin Reverb. 100watts and a clean channel 1. Second channel has a neat distortion circuit with 4 band EQ. Spring reverb works great. This one arrived dead, as a result of a failure in the FX loop circuit.

1960's 5 watt practice amp with attitude! Original Jensen Alnico speaker really breaks up nice!

The Gorilla GG-25... Do you have nostalgia for an 80's practice amp? This sold quickly after repair.

Peavey Vipre Modeling amp.... Lots and lots of sounds... This was better than you may think.

Danelectro Baritone Guitar. This was fun, and now has a new home.

Yes, I fix even the cheap ones. This Fender Frontman 15G needed the input jack fixed.

From 1994, this one came in with no reverb, and making no sound. It left working factory perfect.

Ampeg BA115HP, a 220watt beast cured of fuzzy sound, and broken caster wheels.

This little amp wouldn't boot. Replaced voltage regulators, and a board re-flow brought it back to functionality.

SWR SM-400S Bass amp with Henry The 8x8 Cab
This was in not ready to rock when it arrived. Built solidly, it needed some very thorough control cleaning, a few LED's, and then we were in business.

Fender Sidekick Reverb 25
After living in a garage for years, Mr. V rescued and deep cleaned this amp. It wanted to work, but required general maintenance to return to original function.

Earth G-2000 Super Guitar
This amp had seen all kind of mishandling, and required lots of work and care. After a full Re-Cap, and new Power Tubes, this one needed physical damage repaired. It's now ready to go and sounding great! This amp is basically a Fender Dual Showman that looks like an old Kustom. Made in New York, Earth stuff isn't that common.

Peavey Century 200 Series Bass
This 100watt Peavey is one of the neatest sounding heads I've ever had pass though this shop. Peavey's "box" series 200 amps are built like tanks, and are very hard to kill.

Kustom K200-B1
Missing a speaker, and giving free electrical shocks, this Kustom was cured of its ailments.

Earth Travler-- From 1975, this amp was due for a re-cap and came out sounding great!

This Excel EXL16R is a little Solid State practice amp that students used for practice. It has a real spring reverb. A bad capacitor made it do many bad things, but that's now in the past.

This Vox AC30C2X came in with no voice. After the power tubes were 100% finished, it blew a fuse and went mute. New tubes, a fuse, and some general maintenance got it back to life.

Fender Frontman 212R.........general service.

Marshall VS65R had terrible 120hz Hum. Bad solder joints were the culprit.

Bugera Vintage 55 Had a non-working reverb. A voltage regulator was to blame.

Stereo Chorus amp... Neat! This one had a broken pot, tired filter caps, and lots of bad solder joints in the foot switch.

This Vox AC30/6 TB had cooked its power tubes into being microphonic, and causing them to red plate. It then tried to cook a new set of power tubes. I guess that the transformer was wound on a Monday, because the B+ voltage was 40v above factory specification. The Cathode resistors were changed to bias it more appropriately. Power Tubes + 1 pre-amp tube, and it's back to being happy. I generally prefer to keep amplifiers around their factory specifications, but you do what you must to keep them reliable.

Peavey Bandit 112 Red Stripe-- This amp was dropping signal for no good reason. Connection issues due to corrosion on the jacks and switches were the culprit. It's a happy amp again.

DoleSonic Woody Series Big 12"
This amplifier was custom built in Ohio. It was making an awful buzz, and a grounding problem was to blame. All better now.