cakes wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 12:03 am

TylerDeadPine wrote: Sun Nov 16, 2025 6:25 pm A replacement parlor or full body all around guitar?

Full body all around guitar.

Ah! Cool - in which case you could find a decent Guild dred or Taylor used. What wood is the tenor? Might tell you what you like about it, I’m guessing you should try some mahogany bodied guitars.

Martin (as with Taylor) also has had a million different variations of models in the last 15 years, and something similar to what you guys have might correct the problems that you’ve had with it - ie: not as rough satin, more body.

also ‘not real wood’ isn’t always a deal breaker, although the literally engineered wood does tend to sound shrill, I have an inexpensive layered/laminate back/sides (although wood layers) Taylor Academy that sounds beautiful


Aaaaaanyway with Acoustics it’s really go try some out,

TylerDeadPine wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 8:59 am

cakes wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 12:03 am

TylerDeadPine wrote: Sun Nov 16, 2025 6:25 pm A replacement parlor or full body all around guitar?

Full body all around guitar.

Ah! Cool - in which case you could find a decent Guild dred or Taylor used. What wood is the tenor? Might tell you what you like about it, I’m guessing you should try some mahogany bodied guitars.

I'm guessing spruce? There's Martin DM-15s used on reverb for half price. Those are mahogany dreds. I thought spruce would be more all around?

I want to build myself a Bassman 50 from scratch.

Would anyone be willing to make me a list what to purchase to build one?

Is that too much to ask?

cakes wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 9:01 am

TylerDeadPine wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 8:59 am

cakes wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 12:03 am

Full body all around guitar.

Ah! Cool - in which case you could find a decent Guild dred or Taylor used. What wood is the tenor? Might tell you what you like about it, I’m guessing you should try some mahogany bodied guitars.

I'm guessing spruce? There's Martin DM-15s used on reverb for half price. Those are mahogany dreds. I thought spruce would be more all around?

There's spruce top with mahogany back and sides and all-mahogany guitars. Spruce top with rosewood will sound pretty different than spruce top with mahogany (and that's not getting into not all spruce necessarily sounds the same)

Lu Zwei wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 10:44 am I want to build myself a Bassman 50 from scratch.

Would anyone be willing to make me a list what to purchase to build one?

Is that too much to ask?

you need all this stuff

Lu Zwei wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 10:44 am I want to build myself a Bassman 50 from scratch.

Would anyone be willing to make me a list what to purchase to build one?

Is that too much to ask?

This is pretty close to what you'd need:

https://mojotone.com/products/blonde-ba ... 4211164256

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Yeah! The old one. You use them like the last part of a channel strip. They have a newer version that is a little different so these were cheaper. They have some sort of subgroup control I don’t understand.
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I may have the schematic on an oldmac. .

Lu Zwei wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 10:44 am I want to build myself a Bassman 50 from scratch.

By Bassman i'm gonna assume that you mean the silverface model that was actually called "Bassman 50", aka this one

Kniferide wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 6:17 pm you need all this stuff

^This is a 5E6 bassman which is from the tweed era and before the most notable 5F6A model. Its a model that *almost* no one will care about recreating and not what I think the OP intended.

tallchris wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 6:30 pm This is pretty close to what you'd need:

https://mojotone.com/products/blonde-ba ... 4211164256

^ This more in the right direction but still a much different amp than anything black/silverface. You *could* take this kit and mod it to be like a later model Bassman but it might be just as confusing as starting from scratch.

Lu Zwei wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 10:44 am Would anyone be willing to make me a list what to purchase to build one?

Is that too much to ask?

Its *sort of* a lot to ask. Id happily share my buy-list i've used for an AB165-style Bassman, BUT there's a lot of caveats and information gaps to it, and it would require some hand-holding to to transition that into everything one needs to build an amp. For one, it doesnt list all of the small parts that one would need....stuff like grommets, screws/bolts, ground terminals, etc. So filling in all of the extra info would be a lot. If I were you and I wanted to build an amp I might start with a kit amp first because they DO provide all of those small parts and some instructions to how everything goes together. It looks like Tube Amp Doctor in Germany has a lot of options to pick from that would up your knowledge level.

Also Lu, based on seeing what the price of kit amps cost, and then the time you have to put into putting it all together, seems like you could find some sort of EU located Bassman or equivalent. Here's a '68 silverface Bassman that's been modded to black panel AB-165 specs:

https://reverb.com/item/93148816-fender ... 65-circuit

The first amp I ever tried to build I did from scratch as some sort of ego fest. It was a colossal failure. The second I built from a kit and it was a great experience - highly highly highly don't recommend trying to build from scratch for first.
And sourcing parts.. it can be a PITA and easy to overlook something that makes a build annoying like lead-length - so sourcing for someone else is a slog