Kit Assembly Gallery

[Paul Birkeland]

Here is a green Stereomour II that I just completed for a customer.  It is setup with a 4 pin balanced headphone jack up front for driving power hungry headphones off the speaker outputs.  The customer opted for the DC filament upgrade to keep it super quiet, as well as the shunt regulated driver supply. 

[Deke609]

Very nice.  45 or 2A3 (or both)?  Either way, I think the purchaser will be very happy.

cheers, Derek

[Paul Birkeland]

It's built for 45s.  Both isn't an option on the S2.

[thebellowsfold]

Hello

  I have a S.E.X kit that I have 1/2 assembled that I need to get done.  I don't have a space to work on it anymore is this something you can help me out with?

[Paul Birkeland]

Yes, you can e-mail me at pb(at)bottlehead(dot)com and we can discuss this further.

[Paul Birkeland]

This is a Crack with a green vein top and walnut base I just finished.

[Tom-s]

@PB could you explain how you got the top finish / color done? It looks very cool!

[Paul Birkeland]

A powder coating gun and an oven!

For powders with any kind of metallic particles, the Harbor Freight gun is pretty decent.

[Tom-s]

I feared so. Out of my league for now! Looks to be worth a try on the next project. Truly inspiring builds PB.

[jtori]

All these builds look fabulous, Paul!  You're an engineer, artisan and artist!

[Paul Birkeland]

Eons ago (August), I put in an order for the chassis and input transformers for a super customized BeePre, and the input transformers finally showed up!  This particular customer wanted two balanced inputs as well as balanced outputs, so I had to use an 8P3T switch in order to switch each set of XLR jacks into the input transformers, then to either switch between the input transformers or the one set of unbalanced input jacks.  I made this similar in size to one of the BeePre 2 prototypes I made some years ago and powder coated it black, then installed MonAmour transformer covers over the power transformers. 

[johnsonad]

Holy smokes!  That looks great, nice work PB! Congrats to the new owner!

[Paul Birkeland]

I couldn't quite talk him into the remote like yours has. 

[johnsonad]

That ladder attenuator is the bees knees. You should post a photo of my build here too.

[Paul Birkeland]

Sure thing!