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 Return to top of page · Post #: 1 · Written at 8:51:21 PM on 1 April 2024.
Fred Lever's Gravatar
 Location: Toongabbie, NSW
 Member since 19 November 2015
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I'll start a thread here about this project.
I will post a part 1 at an appropriate time once I have enough content.

This will be my last "Woden" Bass amplifier, the name I used back in 1970-1990.
My very first guitar amplifier had 6V6's in push pull with store bought transformers.
The transformer cost was so high, (I was buying at retail) the amp was made at a loss.
That was the main reason I started to wind my own.
Winding techniques were not a problem as I was winding all sorts of things at work, motors, alternators, reactors and so on.
There may have been a little "foreign order" work done at first but once I found out where to buy or cadge small quantities of wire and insulation I kept it all at home. Besides I had moved on at work to different areas out of winding.
Once I had my home workshop built I could moonlight all I liked and made all sorts of music amps, studio desk equipment and magazine kits.
Woden Amplifiers was a great little earner with my mate George hacking out the cabinet's and getting sales, I just made the electronic bits.

Anyway enough of that, this thread is Fender Bassman time, stand by for part 1.

Fred.


 
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