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Gerhart Gilmore Jr. Builder's Page |
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This page is a showcase for builders of the Gilmore Jr. kit. All items used by permission. |
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Brent Hammel |
Billings, Montana, USA |
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Brent
purchased a "Complete" Gilmore Jr. Kit and reports his build
time as 10 hours. He painted the chassis with polyurethane aircraft
paint baked at 180 degrees F, color, FedEx Purple Jet Glo.
"The instructions, pictures and schematic are very well written, This amp kit is almost idiot proof." -- Brent Hammel |
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John King |
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA |
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John is
the first person to have have built a Gilmore Jr. Kit. Having never
built a tube amp from scratch before, he agreed to the daunting task of
building it from only the schematic and a few phone calls! In the
process, he wrote the excellent assembly manual for the kit.
John chose to build his Gilmore Jr. using a "donor" chassis from an old burned out SS amp that he had lying around. Please visit John's website for more information. |
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Eric Nelson |
Kingman, Arizona, USA |
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Eric built his Basic Gilmore Jr. Kit using a toasted Velocette as a donor chassis / enclosure. He now calls it the "Nelocette" "I put my Analogman modded SD1/808 in front of the amp and used my 2x12 cab...holy mother of god...mmmmmm yes...then my my wife and daughter came home..." -- Eric Nelson |
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Carl Walker / Austen Duffy |
Walsall, West Midlands. England |
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Carl and
Austen (Oz) bought "Basic kits and made their own chassis. They
did pretty well, don't you think? They opted to use Fender style
jeweled indicators with 6V bulbs wired in parallel with the heater string.
As it turns out, Carl is really the guy responsible for this kit in the first place. He posted on alt.guitar.amps wondering if anyone had such a kit available, and from the ensuing discussion, the Gilmore Jr. was born. Thanks, Carl, and nice job!! Check out their website: |
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Pete Turley |
Tulsa, Oklahoma USA |
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Pete
built his Gilmore Jr. in 6 hours! He didn't care to paint the
chassis, so left it in the "chem film" condition it ships
in. The first two "stock" clips were recorded with the amp
built stock, according to the schematic. It was a bit too
"tweed" for his taste, so I recommended a mod to give it a bit
more of a gained up British flavor. The mod consists of changing 1
cap, 2 resistors, and adding 1 cap.
Nice clips, nice webpage, nice job, Pete. Check out Pete's website: |
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