This feature could easily have the slogan “Why buy a thousand-dollar amp when you can make your own for just half the price?” The new Tube Depot Tweed Champ DIY kit, while not making getting your very own champ in as easy as one, two, three, indeed gives you a low-wattage tube amplifier using authentic components at more or less half the cost. Tube sound that has resulted from being handmade and hand-wired yourself brings that satisfaction that is comparable to tasting your own cooking or homemade brew.

The Tweed Champ, though having the namesake of the original, lets you get into the action of building a tube amplifier from scratch using the following components all included in the package:

• High quality finger jointed pine cabinet – precovered
• Schematic and wiring diagrams
• EH 6V6 EH, JJ ECC83s, Sovtek 5Y3 tubes
• Predrilled fiberboard
• Sprague coupling caps
• Carbon comp resistors
• CGE potentiometers
• Swichcraft jacks
• Belkin sockets
• Weber signature series smooth cone ceramic 8” speaker
• Hand-wound American made transformers with European taps (220/240V)
• All the cloth covered wire you need to complete your new amp

With the Tweed Champ DIY Kit, some skill, and some good circumstances, it is true that you can now build your very own Tweed Champ for less than the thousands of dollars you would have spent for those boutique handmade amps that pop out every now and then. Just make sure that you take those safety precautions or else you’re the one who gets fried instead of putting the heat into your tubes. The Tube Depot Tweed Champ DIY Kit costs 550.00 USD (excluding shipping surcharge) and can be ordered directly from Tube Depot.