Arafel Electronics

Arafel Electronics Creating custom amplifiers and effects. Modifying/repairing/restoring guitars, amplifiers, and effects. Generally upping the punx.

Selling vintage speakers and whatever else I may come across.

three more rats in for modification. i can never seem to keep these in stock
08/08/2024

three more rats in for modification. i can never seem to keep these in stock

'73 fender pro reverb belonging to a local studio that was blowing fuses and filament artificial center tap resistors. m...
08/18/2022

'73 fender pro reverb belonging to a local studio that was blowing fuses and filament artificial center tap resistors. my first thought was arcing between power tube pins necessitating replacing a socket or two but turns out it was an internal power tube short. while in there i replaced the terribly drifted screen resistors with flameproof metal oxide and cleaned a TON of solder flux off the eyelet board (before and after pictures included). personal pet peeve of mine, looks nasty. new power tubes and biased and ready to rock (or twang)!

here's a 2000s-era fender custom vibrolux reverb I've been working on on and off for a few weeks. as modern fenders go t...
08/05/2022

here's a 2000s-era fender custom vibrolux reverb I've been working on on and off for a few weeks. as modern fenders go these have a really good reputation, same transformer set as the hot rod deluxe and previous owner even put some sweet weber speakers in it. the bad: these pcbs aren't great to work on as it is and that goes even more when you're not accustomed to then. somebody attempted "the fromel mods" and destroyed the pcbs so i gutted it and built on eyelet boards (as any good fender amp should be). one thing that's always bothered me with blackface amps is that the reverb is only on one channel which both leaves the normal channel too range and doesn't allow jumping the channels like an old four hole marshall. so reverb is on both channels now, the normal channel is a 6g6b blonde bassman normal channel (with proper 350k tapped treble pot) and the bright channel is blackface vibrolux with some tweaked values to bring out the brightness (also has a "fat" switch for more gain and bass). liked the idea of bias vary tremolo so i took that from the 6g16 brownface vibroverb (the last 'big' fender amp with bias vary trem... not fond of the 'roach' used in later amps). phase inverter converted to 12at7 as any ab763 should have and there's slightly less global negative feedback (but more than none like these originally were). TONS of reverb on tap. this can certainly do clean but also gets nasty if you crank it. this is now a true handwired custom shop amp

got some fun stuff wrapping up in the next week or so
07/30/2022

got some fun stuff wrapping up in the next week or so

i do have some cool amp stuff on the way but here's the studio portion of the new shop framed out (besides blocking boar...
07/29/2022

i do have some cool amp stuff on the way but here's the studio portion of the new shop framed out (besides blocking boards and the floor)

CHOAM - sort of a dr z stangray clone but with a pair of fixed bias 6v6 (instead of a quad of el84) and a raw switch to ...
07/24/2022

CHOAM - sort of a dr z stangray clone but with a pair of fixed bias 6v6 (instead of a quad of el84) and a raw switch to bypass the lossy tone stack. in 'smooth' mode it's very clean, great for some chicken pickin'. in 'raw' mode it's raunchy, thick, almost tweed-like
got some help from to etch the aluminum faceplate through electrolysis

if you ever run into any issues with gear purchased from us, rest assured that we've got our best people standing by to ...
07/24/2022

if you ever run into any issues with gear purchased from us, rest assured that we've got our best people standing by to assist you

y'all haven't heard much from me because I've been busy building the new shop/studio home of arafel electronics/math eve...
07/20/2022

y'all haven't heard much from me because I've been busy building the new shop/studio home of arafel electronics/math event studios/etc but i just finished the auliya prototype. sorta vox-y 2xel84 amp with reverb

06/13/2022

do you like death metal? threw some love and new electro caps into this marshall valvestate 8100

~1949 gibson br-9 amp gets a recap (partial recap had already been done with modern radial caps 😞), three prong power co...
06/05/2022

~1949 gibson br-9 amp gets a recap (partial recap had already been done with modern radial caps 😞), three prong power cord grounded to chassis, and proper power switch/fuse wiring (now switches line instead of neutral). size would lead one to believe it's similar to a champ but there are push pull 6v6 like a tweed deluxe! plugged my les paul in and it sounds killer for an old 8" combo!
still needs a cleaning on the outside and some work on the lap steel that came with it but a nice little sunday project here

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