The PCB

On my last amp, I fully hand wired the whole thing. While this was a good experience to have, all of the under-board voltage traces were kind of a pain in the butt to do. That's why for this build, I decided to buy a PCB from Ryan Colgan at thetonegeek.com. You may be thinking to yourself "PCBS just make it harder to service down the line because it is impossible to know where all of the traces are", However, this PCB has a hybrid design between a typical PCB amp and a hand-wired amp. All of the tubes are still hand-wired, as well as all of the connections between most of the components. The only things that aren't hand-wired are the under board voltage and signal traces, the part of point to point wiring that makes amp building suck. You can see a picture of the signal PCB below:

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Part Sourcing

As far as part sourcing goes, Ryan the tone geek has a whole spreadsheet of part selection recommendations. For the most part, I went with his part recommendations. These included Koa Speer resistors, Sprague Atom Power Capacitors, and 715 Series Orange Drop caps, similar to what is speculated was used in the original Two Rock. Thanks so much to Ryan for putting this whole amp parts list together and doing all of the research on the internals of the amp. Made my job as a builder so much easier.

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Cab/Headshell/Speaker

I bought the cabinet off of Guitar Cabinets Direct, a wholesale workshop that builds guitar cabinets. I picked the tolex and grillcloth to match the PRS JMOD and Alessandro Cabinets that john uses. This 2X12 cabinet is stocked with 2 8 ohm Webber Michigan speakers, which have become my go to speakers. The Headshell was custom made by me, and I will go more in depth on that on my blog post on the topic.