Guitar Amp Repairs, Custom Amp Builds, Speakers – JPF Amplification

You can now upload the Barrie Cadogan Guitarist interview* in which Barrie talks about his recently acquired JPF 2×12 KT66-loaded Regent combination amplifier.

JPF Amps will be at the Vintage Guitar Fair in Exeter on the 3rd and 4th December, 2011.

We will be sharing a stand with Zilla Music, and will have a selection of our amps at the show so that you can try them out (and the Zilla cabs), and maybe even purchase/ order one! At very least you could stop the general public suffering my guitar playing!

We will be offering a 10% discount on all purchases, with free shipping within the UK if you want an item don’t have at the show.

After some experimentation and testing with Paul at Zilla Music who constructs our cabinetry, we are pleased to announce our new range of combination amplifiers.

All our amps are available in either 2 x 12″ or 1 x 12″ format (pictured above) with a wide choice of tolex coverings, and Tayden speakers. See our products page for pricing.

The current issue of Guitarist (No 343) has an interview with Barrie Cadogan* (of Little Barrie and Primal Scream), where he talks about his latest amp acquisition, a 25W 2×12 KT66 loaded JPF combination amplifier.

We will be formally launching the KT66 driven Regent 25 model in the New Year. This will include sound samples and video footage.

*Used with permission of Guitarist magazine / Future Publishing Ltd

Thanks to everyone who dropped by our stand at Guitar Nation 2010 to have  a chat and try out out our new amps, the Sir Charles 15 and the King Charles 30.

Here are some photos from the show.

Got to love the glitter!

King Charles 30 in Red/White.

King Charles 30 in Blck/White

Sir Charles 15 in white/black

And here’s a shot of the internal wiring.

As we’ve posted previously, JPF Amplification will be on stand 168 at Guitar Nation 2010, November 13th/14th (this weekend!), at London Olympia.

We will be launching two new amplifiers: the “Sir Charles 15″, and the “King Charles 30″ (no prizes for guessing their power output), which we will have for sale at a “show special” price.

Here’s a Sir Charles 15 in BRG with white stripe. Other colour options are available at no extra cost, although all amps will have Go Faster stripe for enhanced tone.

These amps are our own design, and are hand wired by us using as many UK-made parts as possible, eg transformers, chassis etc. Cabinetry and panel engraving is done in house.

More info on these amps including technical specs, photos, and sound samples will be uploaded to our products page in the next couple of days.

We’ll also have a range of Tayden speakers on our stand, and Paul from Tayden will be dropping in on Sunday.

So drop by our stand to try out our amps, Tayden speakers, or if you simply want to chat about valve amps. We will be more than happy to try to answer any technical enquiries you might have, or give advice about amp building, repairing, modifying etc.

See you at the weekend!

Due to increasing demand for custom amp panels and logos etc, JPF Amps have recently acquired a computer-controlled flat bed rotary engraver. This now means we can design and engrave anything we need in house, which not only saves us money, but also gives us a much greater degree of flexibility.

It is our intention to provide an affordable engraving service for other amp builders, and DIYers.

We are aiming to launch a seperate web-site for our engraving services in the near future, but feel free to get in touch with us with your engraving requirements. By the way the maximum engraving size is 600 x 400 mm.

JPF Amplification Ltd will be on stall 168 at Guitar Nation 2010, 13 & 14th November at London Olympia.

Not only will we have some amplifiers for sale, we’ll also have the Tayden range of speakers to test out.

We’ll be posting more details nearer the show.

I’ve recently purchased a copy of Merlin Blencowe’s book “Designing Tube Preamps for Guitar and Bass”.

This is the best books I’ve read on guitar amp pre-amps, which will come as no surprise to anyone who has visited Merlin’s excellent website. Although the approach is quite academic, even if you aren’t into the maths (sad to say I am), there are a ton of useful ideas and practical tips.

Thoroughly recommended.

The only disappointing feature of the book is that the author chose to you “tube” in the title rather than “valve”!