Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: jpfamps on November 07, 2010, 05:26:12 PM
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For anyone attending Guitar Nation 2010 we will be on stand 168.
We'll have some of our amps and a range of Tayden speakers to try out.
Paul from Tayden will be with us on Sunday if you have any speaker questions.
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was good to see you today Frank - enjoyed my visit to the show
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i wanted to go.
i decided to come home to up north though.
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I wanted to go too but was afraid I may spend more than I have. Maybe next year :lol:
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was good to see you today Frank - enjoyed my visit to the show
Thanks for droppng by.
I'll certainly drop into the Feline workshop in the near future.
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can you post pics any pics? would have loved to come over the pond .. :(
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I don't think we have any pics.
You are making the assumption that we are organized enough to take a camera to the show!
We will have some more pics of our amps up on the web site soon, and will get some more sound samples of the higher powered modesl done soon.
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wish HTH and I had known about your panel engraver last year when we did the HTH
http://jpfamps.com/jpf-amps-engraver-for-amp-panels (http://jpfamps.com/jpf-amps-engraver-for-amp-panels)
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We didn't have it last year!
It is a quite recent edition.
Essentially we got it because custom engraving is so expensive, and the quality of the work is quite variable. Also it makes it easier for us to develop different amp models on the same chassis, as well as one offs. The set up costs are usually prohibitive if you go to an external engraver for less than say 20 panels.
The cheapest deal we found for engraving Traffolyte panels (as used by Hiwatt) for the front of our amps was £15 + VAT each for 20. Add a back panel and a logo, and the panels now cost more than the mains transformer!!
Not only is this expensive, it also means you have to commit to that design and don't have any opportunity to try different ideas.
As I'm sure your well aware, cosmetics are very important.
We do aleady do engraving for a few trade customers and we will do one offs for DIYers etc, but we didn't want to advetrise our services until we had a) worked out how to use the machine (I say we, I mean Dave who works with me), and b) got the Guitar Nation 2010 show out of the way.
As the machine will also rout, we do our PTFE eyelet boards on it. Takes about 2-3 minutes per board, which is much better than me using doing it with a pillar drill!
We've also routed a couple of fingerboards for custom inlays (for the Frenchman in basement!), and are currently working out how to do the inlays themselves.
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will it mill the traces on copper-clad boards for guitar-effects PCBs and drill out the component holes?
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I doubt very much we could do PCBs.
It won't rout/drill FR4, nor will it accept a Gerber file.
If we do anything that requires a PCB we will probably prototype it first by etching and then outsource production.
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can you post pics any pics? would have loved to come over the pond .. :(
Managed to scrounge some pics from a lad who works on the street.
They are on our blog.
Not particularly exciting, unless you like look at pictures of amps..........