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Is there even such a thing (bare bones as in, no tubes, no speaker, no cabinet, not even the chassis or turret board; litterally just the bones aka electronic parts)? I also don't need pots and jacks and wire (got all that), but there's not likely to be a kit that doesn't include that stuff (and it's not the expensive bits).
All I see in my searching are a very few vendors selling nearly bare bones kits (at least includes chassis), but they're still like US$225-299 (currently about CA$300-400).
... So I did some research and it looks to me that I can buy all those parts, and not cheapo stuff either but decent if not the actual good stuff (Classic Tone transformers; F&T filter caps, Orange Drop coupling caps, Arcol carbon resistors, Kiwame for the higher wattage resistors, ceramic tube sockets etc) for < CA$155 before shipping (above kit price is also before shipping, so to compare apples to apples). And that's full price from retailers not even quantity discounts from retailers vs wholesale suppliers (which means it is possible to do better). PLus a chassis lets say that would be CA$200; litterally half. AND, I can get most of it (not the transformers) from a local Canadian supplier, so I might be able to avoid shipping altogether. I could get Hammond trafos in CA, but they're actually more expensive than the nicer ones I found, despite shipping form the US.
I've done a lot of the leg work, but it would still be a bit of a pain to follow through with this, so does anyone know of a kit supplier (preferably Canadian, but lets not restrict ourselves to that) who would have a similar bare bones kit for a more competitive price? .... and as I write this I may have answerred my own question - when looking at MojoTone's kit you can select the parts you want by clicking on the circuit layout; even then (and even though some of those parts aren't as high quality as the ones I sourced, but good enough) it comes to US$133ish (CA$180ish) ... plus more shipping etc (also that doesn't include the higher wattage resistors, cuz they are out of stock and it doesn't even show me the price; can't be that much more tho). That's pretty close, I guess, but if I can't do better than that I think I still rather go my own way.
I am looking at building this very small; mini lunchbox head (maybe even something that will fit on a pedalboard, large but still) with Herzog mods; essentially a tube rectified Herzog. The filter cap size is the main issue, but I am looking into some super-mini electros (so far can't find any without a stupid high min qty - there's some promising ones by Kemet).
All I see in my searching are a very few vendors selling nearly bare bones kits (at least includes chassis), but they're still like US$225-299 (currently about CA$300-400).
... So I did some research and it looks to me that I can buy all those parts, and not cheapo stuff either but decent if not the actual good stuff (Classic Tone transformers; F&T filter caps, Orange Drop coupling caps, Arcol carbon resistors, Kiwame for the higher wattage resistors, ceramic tube sockets etc) for < CA$155 before shipping (above kit price is also before shipping, so to compare apples to apples). And that's full price from retailers not even quantity discounts from retailers vs wholesale suppliers (which means it is possible to do better). PLus a chassis lets say that would be CA$200; litterally half. AND, I can get most of it (not the transformers) from a local Canadian supplier, so I might be able to avoid shipping altogether. I could get Hammond trafos in CA, but they're actually more expensive than the nicer ones I found, despite shipping form the US.
I've done a lot of the leg work, but it would still be a bit of a pain to follow through with this, so does anyone know of a kit supplier (preferably Canadian, but lets not restrict ourselves to that) who would have a similar bare bones kit for a more competitive price? .... and as I write this I may have answerred my own question - when looking at MojoTone's kit you can select the parts you want by clicking on the circuit layout; even then (and even though some of those parts aren't as high quality as the ones I sourced, but good enough) it comes to US$133ish (CA$180ish) ... plus more shipping etc (also that doesn't include the higher wattage resistors, cuz they are out of stock and it doesn't even show me the price; can't be that much more tho). That's pretty close, I guess, but if I can't do better than that I think I still rather go my own way.
I am looking at building this very small; mini lunchbox head (maybe even something that will fit on a pedalboard, large but still) with Herzog mods; essentially a tube rectified Herzog. The filter cap size is the main issue, but I am looking into some super-mini electros (so far can't find any without a stupid high min qty - there's some promising ones by Kemet).
