Recent content by Amptech

It's as straightforward as any recap job. Replace electrolytic caps of same value and same or higher voltage. Some stages can benefit from higher cap values, but your tech or whoever that will do the job will tell you that. Basically, he will stick to the schematics - but make sure he's got the...

There's no rumor, serial-wired amps are marked serial. Sure, there are amps tampered with, but then again you wouldn't spew out faulty theories based on those. HD 130 heads usually have series output and therefore have the series marking. Some of their combo's had paralell wired...

It certainly looks like a ´72-´74 Aria model 1820. I don´t know for sure, but think they came in white, black,red and sunburst during the production years. The headstock logo changed, they did not always use the Diamond brand. I think they even used the Diamond brand alone. Then There is the...

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Hi! I´m restoring a modified Gibson EB0F. It has been modified with a slanted Jazz bass pickup near the bridge. I´m looking for details on the bridge pickup routing on the EB-3; - How big is the bridge pickup routing? - What is the distance between the neck pickup routing and the...

Yeah, bought it in ´93 an it was falling apart. Painted black with a 6" house brush and kept in a wet cellar. It was refinished close to the original colour. The nfrets and partly the whole fingerbord was coming off. It played and intonated even worse than what I´ve heard people say about these...

Although I´ve played a Grabber for over 20 years, I always wanted to have an early EB-3. The 60´s instruments seemed quite pricey, so I have been looking for a modified EB0. At last, a ´63 Jazz Pickup modded EB0 at a possible price appeared this summer - and as it arrived it turned out to be...

Thought i could join in with this ´72 Aria Diamond model 1820 fretless.