It's starting again

Hi all,

I'm back. Just wanted to leave a quick note that we're working on the next build, a 5F4 Tweed Super, featuring Mercury Magnetics transformers & Weber Vintage Series AlNicCo speakers, which should really make this puppy sing!

I'd like to introduce Jim, who has previously helped me in the past working on the Deluxe, but has really taken the initiative with the Super build, and is already getting started on our next project, a JTM45. Jim has a lot of experience debugging and restoring classic amps, and brings a lot to the table in knowledge and excitement.

Lastly, once we get a few more models built, you'll see a proper Warktone website show up, which ordering capability, although we'll also be selling via ebay & craigslist, and buyers will be able to come to our "showroom" to try things out & take them home immediately!

yet another new blog title...

this one being, perhaps, the most appropriate, and rather humorous to the 3 other people in my band. speaking of which, hey Pat, how can we go about changing the player from just playing Sea of My Discretion to some other random song?

everyone i went to highschool with is not, in fact, dead.

let me introduce myself. I'm this guy. I'm currently the guitarist in the silence kit, but i've also played in a number of other bands, the first and closest to my heart being dubbed in english, a band I started with some guys i met on a bbs(remember those?) way back in 1996.

anyway, being a tone-snob guitarist, and finally getting sick of the fact that nobody in south jersey can competently work on tube guitar amps i finally decided to start tinkering with them myself, and that quickly led to building my own. my first amp build was a Dave Hunter Two-Stroke, which was a great success and is now being happily played by some guy in New York. I'll talk more about that build and my experiences in a later post. i'm now working on a straight up 5e3 clone (a 1957 tweed Fender Deluxe) that i am working on with a friend, and will be posting some details on that as well.

which brings me to the point of this blog - amps in particular, and guitar tone in general. i plan on turning this amp building hobby into some sort of a semi-business, building high-quality handmade custom and cloned amps - and any thoughts i have along the way i'll be sharing here. comments are welcome.

i'll probably also be talking about bands i like (the cure, new order, joy division, faith no more, death cab for cutie, etc), and might occasionally write a crazy drunk post about how the end of mgs4 made me cry cool about video games i've played.

please to enjoy.