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Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 20:05
by sinner
Does anyone have any? I'm up to 5f6-a an 5e3 badly
Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 20:19
by Duckman
You check the downloads at Fender page?
A lot of schematics there!
Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 20:26
by redsun
Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 20:29
by Duckman
That was fast!
Nice!
Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 20:32
by sinner
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...
Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 20:35
by sinner
Thanks bro

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

Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 20:43
by timbo_93631
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!
Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 20:48
by sinner
Ha! I love that idea

Timbo, you're the man!

Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 20:59
by Duckman
http://tubedepot.com/kit-tweeddeluxe.html
Another option. You have a download at the end of the page
Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 21:20
by sinner
Thanks Duckman

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

Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 21:29
by sinner
GOT THE 5E3!
edit; no I dont, it's smaller than original
Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 19 Nov 2011, 02:39
by Fredenando
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
Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 19 Nov 2011, 05:30
by timbo_93631
That seems about right, Hoffman is pretty good about making that stuff consistent with his drill masks.
Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 19 Nov 2011, 15:23
by Duckman
sinner wrote:Thanks Duckman

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


Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 19 Nov 2011, 23:42
by phibes
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.
Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 19 Nov 2011, 23:55
by sinner
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

Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 20 Nov 2011, 00:14
by phibes
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.
Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 20 Nov 2011, 01:29
by Greenmachine
I put a fender tonestack in my 5E3 and I love it. Great cleans.
Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 20 Nov 2011, 05:22
by phibes
Greenmachine wrote:I put a fender tonestack in my 5E3 and I love it. Great cleans.
Which Fender tonestack did you use?
Re: Fender Tweed board plans
Posted: 21 Nov 2011, 16:53
by sinner
Got it! Found it on modulusamplification.com website... Can't upload it from my machine, I'll do it tomorrow
