Brenne's played guitar for more than 10 years and finds that every DIY amp produces a unique tone, with wood amps sounding very different from those made of metal or plastic.

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12. 'Little Gem' homemade mini guitar amp. Ragtagbag made this nifty little travel amp for his teeny tiny guitar using a "Little Gem" amp design which he augmented with parts from Radio Shack and ...

On the day mini-amps were invented, electric guitar players the world over rejoiced. No longer would they be house-bound when jamming out on their favourite guitar. It is a doubly wondrous day ind… ...

DIY-focused Make magazine combined a little science with some elbow grease to make a stand that would boost the quality of sound produced by a basic guitar amp.

Scopeboy, a.k.a. Steve Conner, builds Tesla coils, one of which can be used as a guitar amp. Here’s what an electric guitar sounds like hooked up to a 250,000-volt Tesla coil amplifier: As an ...

One axe that caught our interest was a cigar-box guitar Dan Provenzano equipped with an amp hookup, so that it plays like a real electric guitar. You can electrify your own homemade guitar in a few ...