If you're looking for something that looks and sounds like a real 5F1 tweed Champ, then that kit from the Tube Amp Doctor is probably your best bet.

You might take a look at this kit:

http://ceriatone.com/productSubPages...ChampUltra.htm

That kit is a bit more complicated than the TAD kit, but it is more versatile tone wise. It doesn't look like a real 5F1, but it should be able to cop the tone. You'd have to convert the prices your Euros, though. And it does come with a head shell so you'd have to have your own speaker cabinet.

One of the main limitations of the original tweed Champ is the small speaker and cab. If your going for that sort of tone, then the TAD kit would be better.

Mojotone does make a kit, but it is like $500 before shipping. American-made products tend to be very expensive.

Really, the 5F1 amp is as simple as it gets. Any simpler and it isn't a guitar amp. Those amps are not hard to build, but if it doesn't power up the first time it could be hard to debug if you don't have the necessary trouble shooting skills. .

As for a drill, maybe you could borrow one?



Quote Originally Posted by red
Hello, I'd like to buy a 5F1 Tweed Champ style amplifier in Europe.
I'd like to stay below 600 EUROs (roughly $800), shipping and taxes included. I'd like a nice speaker in it (a Jensen P8R maybe), and want it to be wired point-to-point.

My first choice would be a Victoria 518 or 5112, but with shipping to Europe and custom taxes it would be several hundred dollars more expensive than what I can afford at the moment. My second choice would be a Fender 57 Champ reissue, but that's also quite pricy (in Europe it costs about 900 EUROs).

I found this kit at a store in Germany ("Tube Amp Doctor"):

http://www.tubeampdoctor.com/english...F1-pid-840.htm

but with shipping and a speaker (not included in the kit) it comes to almost exactly 600 EUROs. The problem is that I've only built pedals so far, I don't own a drill which seems to be required, I'm afraid I might electrocute myself, and while I have some soldering experience, I don't trust my cabinet work skills. And the price doesn't allow me room for paying somebody else to build the kit.

Does anybody know where an already built 5F1 Tweed Champ clone can be bought from, either in Europe, or cheap enough from the US (yes I'm also considering eBay )?

Thanks!