Fender Tweed board plans

sinner · Post by **sinner** » 18 Nov 2011, 20:05

Does anyone have any? I'm up to 5f6-a an 5e3 badly

Duckman · Post by **Duckman** » 18 Nov 2011, 20:19

You check the downloads at Fender page?
A lot of schematics there!

redsun · Post by **redsun** » 18 Nov 2011, 20:26

http://ampwares.com/schematics/bassman_5f6.pdf
http://ampwares.com/schematics/deluxe_5e3.pdf
http://ampwares.com/amps/

Duckman · Post by **Duckman** » 18 Nov 2011, 20:29

redsun wrote:http://ampwares.com/schematics/bassman_5f6.pdf
http://ampwares.com/schematics/deluxe_5e3.pdf
http://ampwares.com/amps/

That was fast!

Nice!

sinner · Post by **sinner** » 18 Nov 2011, 20:32

It's not about the schematics mate

My friend have a nice 5e3 chassis and is willing to trade it with me for one of my pedals, I just want to have the preamp board blueprint to make easy fit into this chassis. I want to do the same thing with bassman I'm willing to build one day. I can do it easy way buying those boards from turretboards.com, but... well, I'm not really cool finantial-wise newdays. I have some blank materials, turrets, turret stacking gear, I can do it easily myself, but I need plans

BTW, accidentally I've found 5e3 cab plans on-line, I'll upload them tomorrow, as my wife netbook is a piece of shit. Back in 90's I had faster internet...

sinner · Post by **sinner** » 18 Nov 2011, 20:35

redsun wrote:http://ampwares.com/schematics/bassman_5f6.pdf
http://ampwares.com/schematics/deluxe_5e3.pdf
http://ampwares.com/amps/

Thanks bro

I'm more about... you know, board dimension, eyelet, and mounting hole placement.. That sort of thing

timbo_93631 · Post by **timbo_93631** » 18 Nov 2011, 20:43

Here are Weber's layouts:
https://taweber.powweb.com/store/5e3_layout.jpg
https://taweber.powweb.com/store/5f6a_layout.jpg
I'd scale them to fit the chassis and print them that size then mark your board using it as a drill guide. Happy you are working on a bunch of stuff dude!

sinner · Post by **sinner** » 18 Nov 2011, 20:48

Ha! I love that idea

Timbo, you're the man!

Duckman · Post by **Duckman** » 18 Nov 2011, 20:59

http://tubedepot.com/kit-tweeddeluxe.html
Another option. You have a download at the end of the page

sinner · Post by **sinner** » 18 Nov 2011, 21:20

Thanks Duckman

But I still can't figure out how to attach eyelets to PCB's

sinner · Post by **sinner** » 18 Nov 2011, 21:29

GOT THE 5E3!

edit; no I dont, it's smaller than original

Fredenando · Post by **Fredenando** » 19 Nov 2011, 02:39

If I'm not mistaken I think you can print and use this layout as a template for your board.

Some data:

42 Turret lug holes
3.125 x 8.25 inches long

timbo_93631 · Post by **timbo_93631** » 19 Nov 2011, 05:30

That seems about right, Hoffman is pretty good about making that stuff consistent with his drill masks.

Duckman · Post by **Duckman** » 19 Nov 2011, 15:23

sinner wrote:Thanks Duckman But I still can't figure out how to attach eyelets to PCB's

phibes · Post by **phibes** » 19 Nov 2011, 23:42

Draw a layout in Illustrator and size out your parts if your making the board by hand. That's what I did in mine. I'm redoing it though. You should try incorporating the 6G3 preamp instead of the 5F6. Just use a dual gang pot for the tone control. I just converted mine to 6G3 specs and am loving it. I'm gonna tweak the bright channel more to the liking of a Marshall 18watt pre (close, but obviously not exact) and then move the current bright channel over to the 'normal' inputs. There's so much you can do with the 5e3 as a starting point.

Here's how my board turned out, I can't stand cramming parts into pre-made templates so I did my own. Everything fits nice and tidy.

sinner · Post by **sinner** » 19 Nov 2011, 23:55

1W CC's, that looks nice, and I bet keep the noise floor down a bit too

I was thinking to do the same in mine and use Bradley's RCR series, but I can't track 100k 1W's

I'll start with stock 5e3 first, just to check what I like/dislike and after that I'll mod that shit back and forth for fun

phibes · Post by **phibes** » 20 Nov 2011, 00:14

Yeah that's what I did. Stock it's kinda a one trick pony. I know a lot of guys like it stock but to me I wanted to turn it into a nice versatile combo/bedroom amp and it definitely does that now. Doing the 6G3 thing is nice because you still get the warm/fuzzy tweed tone but the volume controls become more usable and you can get a really nice clean tone outta the amp. Swapping the 5Y3 for a 5V4 (the Gerald Weber recommendation) is also a good idea. I put the 5Y3 in when I wanna play dirty and the 5V4 when I want something punchier/cleaner.

Greenmachine · Post by **Greenmachine** » 20 Nov 2011, 01:29

I put a fender tonestack in my 5E3 and I love it. Great cleans.

phibes · Post by **phibes** » 20 Nov 2011, 05:22

Greenmachine wrote:I put a fender tonestack in my 5E3 and I love it. Great cleans.

Which Fender tonestack did you use?

sinner · Post by **sinner** » 21 Nov 2011, 16:53

Got it! Found it on modulusamplification.com website... Can't upload it from my machine, I'll do it tomorrow