I had a pile of orphan amp parts and an old home-made tweed cabinet that I tried and tried to sell on various discussion boards. No dice. There was almost enough there to build a whole amp. Too much for a Champ, but not enough for a Deluxe. More than a Princeton, but not quite a Harvard. Since no one wanted this stuff, and I was home sick and juiced up on cough medicine - I started putting things together. I made an eyelet board out of some phenolic board stock and 1/8" eyelets. It was based on a 5F1 Champ design by Bruce Collins that uses two 6V6 tubes in parallel single-ended operation. The extra Blues Junior transformer I had worked perfect once I removed the center tap wire. I slowly put things together, using bits and parts of several old Fender schematics and layouts.
"LETSSSEEE... I don't have a bias supply, but I do have an extra cathode resistor. And I think there is a handle and some rubber feet in a closet upstairs..."
Did I think it would work? Ehhhhhhh.... I knew simplicity was on my side. I fired it up, and it's a screamer. Essentially a Tweed Princeton with double the wattage (10, instead of 5). Even my girlfriend was impressed (and that's no small feat).
