I received my stuff from my new friend John at Droplight industries https://www.droplightind.com and I'm thrilled with what he sent me and made for me.
First if you recall I needed a "Heshtone" badge in a Marshall like font for my 1/2 stack 45 watt head I built and am now enjoying the hell out of. Droplight makes these with counter sunk screw holes and sends matching flat head screws making installation a breeze (once you jump though hoops to get things straight).
I also bought of his Tweed clock with Heshtone on it. Me I'm not vain......
. He has a Marshall clock too that I plan on ordering too.And I had John make me two smaller Heshtone badges for the 57 and 59 tweed amps that I built as well.
Everything came out great and I'm thrilled.
This man cave is part of my plan. I plan on working 14 more months and then giving my share of Ann Arbor Guitars to Dave because he's earned it and he's my best friend. I have always told him I would do this too. He will have to employ me though to work as little or as much as I like. So when I need or want a new guitar I can glue some bridges, do some fret work set-up whatever comes my way and have a part time job as little or as much as I like. And my weed dispensary is across the street. Ain't life great
Have some road trips to do to visit Link Van Cleave in the emerald triangle.....
and I want to spend some time in Yellowstone with my Sony 62 MP camera and 600 mm lens.So the man cave plan is to have everything me and my buddies need to rock out here so they never have to carry a thing since they are geezers now too. Some of the same people I was in garage bands when I was a kid are still alive so we will regress to being rock star wanna-be stoner dudes who also acquired a taste in the last 50 years for fine single malt scotch.
We may sound like crap but no one will care or notice Anyway this closes the chapter on these three amps I built they all work flawlessly and they sound killer. I'll never purchase a f*ctory amp again and had not realized how terrible they sound until I got to play though hand wired, point to point vintage amps that helped change our world back in the day.
Watched Jimi at Monterey on Netflix yesterday squirting lighter fluid on a Strat and then setting it on fire. That's what I want to be when I grow up
I'm a huge dog lover without a dog, at the moment. We, Dave my business partner has a black lab, Kibbeh who loves to sit on my feet as I work. I bring in treats for her all of the time too. Yeah we have to meet bro and I already thought that too. 