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Welcome to the Edgefield Tube Amplifier Company
The Edgefield Tube Amplifier Company is a sole proprietorship company specializing in custom built, hand-wired tube guitar amplifiers based on some of your favorite amps from the 1950s and '60s.
If I deviate from a classic circuit at all, it is only to improve safety, extend tube life, reduce noise, or perhaps to add an adjustable bias. My amps are meant to sound clean and full at lower volume, but to produce that wonderful brown harmonic power-tube distortion as the volume is cranked up.
While I have so far specialized in classic fender tweed and black-face circuits, I have moved forward into design built projects to the customer specifications, such as the new Signature Model "Jim Mings Jazz Classic," pictured to the right. Hope to have an audio file for this amp and others posted soon. I have also been doing a lot of restorations lately on Ampeg and old Gibson amps.
FOR SALE
1962 GIBSON GA 19RVT FALCON FOR SALE. Click the last page button to the left.
GIBSON GA 50T FOR SALE (ON HOLD!). See link at bottom of page.
GIBSON BR-6 of mine listed on eBay 08/21/08 for 10 days (Item No. 290254891770). If it does not sell, I'll just list it on my web site here afterwards. Try Link at bottom of page for pix & more info!
New 1959 5F1 Champ Tribute for sale (REDUCED PRICE). See link at bottom of page. Thanks! Joe
Site last updated 08/21/08.
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The new Signature Model "Jim Mings Jazz Classic"
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Restoration & Repairs
Yes, I also do restorations and repair work. I have very little interest in doing radical modifications that would destroy the collector value of your vintage amp, but please do contact me with your needs, and we can get a discussion going.
As you might guess, repairs might be as simple as a couple of new tubes and setting the BIAS. However, if we start talking about replacing fried transformers or sending your speakers off to be re-coned, things can get a little pricey. But do contact me with your thoughts, and I'll be happy to talk it over with you.
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FOR SALE ON CONSIGNMENT.(ON HOLD)
This lovely circa 1949 Gibson GA 50T was restored here at the farm. Take a look at page four, A Testimonial, of my site for more details.
$2,300 plus shipping. S.C. residents pay 7% sales tax.
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Having played electric guitars for over 40 years, the company founder, Joe Stertz, understands that this is not about our amplifiers.
This is all about you the players being able to coax that illusive sound and tone out of your rig, to match what you are hearing inside your head.
Joe's brothers John and Jim are shown here jamming on the back porch of "The Farm," here in Edgefield County South Carolina, where our amps are built.
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Here you see inside the chassis of an ETAC 5E3 Tweed Deluxe Tribute.
We chose a premium grade cabinet from Mojo Music Supply in North Carolina for this project. Its 3/4" finger-jointed pine cab is covered in genuine tweed fabric. This one features an eye-catching custom antique amber finish. You can see the amber finish a little better a couple of pages over on 'Catalog.'
The circuit board is hand wired, and tube filament wiring & grounding are improved, plus there is liberal use of mil-spec shielded teflon cable to help with noise reduction. Output circuit and power tubes are protected from power surges by diodes, increasing reliability and extending tube life.
My philosophy? I will not ship an amp that I don't wish I could keep here!
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