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Permalink Reply by Derek Rose on January 29, 2020 at 1:59pm

I like the little Rogue 5W amps, like this Rogue G5 battery powered amp

You can use them as-is OR take them apart and build them into a cigar box as an easy project. The last video I posted uses one of these.  Blues & Whiskey video

The Roland micro-cubes are nice too, with on-board effects.

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Permalink Reply by Myron Joe Hickel on January 29, 2020 at 5:25pm

I'm a novice builder compared to a lot of the cbg builders here. And I like you like making my own stuff, I've built a few amps using various boards, radios and older small ebay amps. On ebay I bought a pignose hog20 for $45 +-  It only needed batteries $12 for 2. And I got a micro cube for $79 free shipping. For $50 bucks I got a fender frontman, Yamaha ga10,and a axl thin line. So you can get small amps under $100 just takes time looking. The cube and the thinline are good, lots of audio languages to play with. The hog 20 sounds really good but all it has is tone and squeal.

I've used cb gittys amp boards stock and hacked with different size caps and tone pots 500s 250s and 10s. 3 or 4 of nightfires boards and the tone monster boards sd2w and mah5. The mah5 is the best one.

Have not tried the boss katana. Met a guy who delivered some firewood said it was great for metal.

That is about the extent of my amp knowledge. 

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Permalink Reply by KOOL DOG HOOCH on January 30, 2020 at 1:51am

Look in Facebook marketplace. So far I've picked up 3 amps for less than $20 ea, one of them for $5. I also got one free from the trash, it needed a power transformer. Granted they aren't window breaking, earth shaking stage amps, they work just fine.

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