|
Presents
Epiphone Valve Jr.
The Ultimate Upgrade
( NEW descriptions of both
Ultimate Upgrades are coming soon! )
These are
NOT KITS
- WE do the complete installation !
Updated - 9/07 - 6:00 AM - New Stuff Every Day !
New 15 Watt "PLUS" Ultimate
Upgrade !
Power Cut Knob is on the Back!
Before (stock):
Menu
After
(upgraded) :
Menu
|
Pricing on 7 Watt Ultimate Upgrade - $295.00
All 7 watt Valve Juniors have one 12AX7 and One EL84 !
Description
for 7 Watt Ultimate Upgrade :
This Upgrade is Actually a
WWW.WestLabs.COM
PicoFire (
List $1195.00 - Street $695.00 )
in an Epiphone Cabinet and
Chassis !
You Get Roughly Five Hours of OUR Labor Plus:
A New
PicoFire Output Transformer!
All New Floating Ground Cliff Jacks - Input and
Speaker Output
A New Tone Control - A New Brite Capacitor
New Conductive Plastic Volume , Tone, and Master
Volume Pots - New Chicken Head Knobs
All New Precision 1 Watt 750 Volt Resistors - A New .0022
Polystyrene Coupling Cap
A
New Heavy Duty Power Switch - (On Back of Amp)
A
New Standby and Pilot Light Switch - New Standby and
Play Pilot Lights
A New
Engraved Lifetime Front Plate
- The Letters CAN'T Wear Off !
Circuit Changes to Correct Grounding
Changes
to Correct Component Values
Changes
to Improve the Circuit
Our unique Power Cut Circuit six
position switch which allows you to decrease the output
tube's clipping level in 6 DB increments. This thing
sounds great (Cranked) down to a whisper!
See
WWW.WestLabs.COM for Details on the Pots, Switches,
Resistors, and Transformers!
Menu
- PicoFire Forum Testimonials -
Excerpt From
The Webber VST Amp Board :
Hey Tim....
-
Prairie Dawg 18:58:11 11/18/03 (2)
 what's
new out your way? See any cool amps?
... yes, the West PicoFire
- Tim Swartz 22:13:39 11/18/03 (1)
Dave
had me over for a test drive a couple weeks
ago..WHOOHHHWEEE! This thing will burn sand off the
desert floor. Single EL84 that has as much umph as
many amps with 2 EL84s. It is called a PicoFire.
Tim
Excerpt From
The Vintage Amps Bulletin Board :
I was
over at Dave's house yesterday, picking up one
of his 15w output transformers (a nice upgrade
for about any amp I can think of w/ 2 EL84s or
6V6s). I can tell you the new little amp he is
coming out with, the PicoFire is an absolute
killer.
Swarty
Menu
|
Back
View of 15 watt Ultimate Upgrade
Surprise your friends and other Valve Junior owners !
Pricing on 15 Watt Ultimate Upgrade -
$595.00
This amp Ultimate Upgrade has TWO 12AX7s and TWO
EL84s and puts out 15 Watts RMS !
Description for 15 Watt Ultimate
Upgrade
:
This Upgrade is
Actually a Matchless SpitfireTM
Type Circuit,
with
Genuine
Matchless Transformers from
WWW.WestLabs.COM
and ALL New Premium Components
in an Epiphone Cabinet and Chassis !
The only chassis part retained is the
AC input jack
!
You Get Roughly Twelve Hours of OUR Labor Plus:
(More to Come)
You also get our unique Power Cut Circuit six
position switch which allows you to decrease the output
tube's clipping level in 6 DB increments. This thing
sounds great (Cranked) down to a whisper!
More description
to come soon !
Menu
|
| |
Send Your
Amp for Modification to:
West Laboratories
4583 Comanche Drive
Okemos, MI 48864
Phone :
517-351-0149
Dave@ValveJr.COM
Dave@WestLabs.COM
Menu
First
Valve Junior Blog !
2-08-07
I just spent an hour with the latest "tune-up" of
the 15 watt Ultimate Upgrade, a couple of
my favorite war toys, and one of our dual twelve
open back cabinets with Celestion Vintage 30s. We
have a lot more high quality gain then a stock
Spitfire now!
What a gas. Jimi move over!
And I really don't play the guitar! I think the
concept is now 99% done! Maybe next week it will be
101% !
Instead of paralleling the triodes inside a 12AXY
(for NO good reason) like the Spitfire, we are now
putting two 12AU7s in SERIES with the volume and
tone controls in the middle. The "perfect" amount of
gain, about four times the original.
This (15-20 watt ) amp is loud enough to "Kick It" on just about
any gig available these days. It is now on it's way
to a six hour Blues Jam Session over at the
Unicorn! All the best local guitar players will be
there, including the legendary "Frog" (of
Frog and the Beeftones) from
Elderly Instruments!
Dave West
Menu
|
2-09-07
A detailed report of the Six Hour Blues Jam Session
at the Unicorn on 2-08-07 featuring the 15 Watt Ultimate
Upgrade
will appear here as soon as I get it
finished.
Needless to say, the amplifier was a rousing success!
Dave West
Menu
|
|
Availability
7 Watt Ultimate
Upgrade for the Valve Jr - Available March
1st, 2007 !
15 Watt Ultimate
Upgrade for the Valve Jr - Available March
1st, 2007 !
Menu
|
|
Who Are We ?
We are
West Laboratoriestm.
We built the West amps (Avalon, Grande and Fillmore)
back in the late 60s and early 70s. These amps were used
by Grand Funk Railroad, Edgar Winter, BB King's bass
player and many others. West Labs is located in Okemos,
Michigan (Lansing).
We currently offer our
FAB
(Factory Authorized Blueprint) on the older amps. We
are currently bringing out a new series of West amps.
Our first offering, the 7 Watt
Picofire will be
in production soon. The development of this amplifier
has taken almost four years. We like to get things
right!
This amp (the PicoFire) is virtually
duplicated in our 7 Watt Ultimate Upgrade.
We have
an
Ebay Store where we sell cabinet corners, pots, pot
nuts, etc.
and have over 1300
Positive Feedbacks on Ebay under the
Ebay name DaveWest.
West Laboratoriestm wants to assure your total
satisfaction with our Ultimate Upgrades to the
Epiphone Valve Junior.
Dave West
Menu
|
|
Purchasing an Ultimate Upgrade
Ship your amp to us at our contact
address along with a 50% deposit on the modification you
require. You may send a check with the amp or send a Paypal
to us
at Dave@WestLabs.COM. We prefer
Paypal. Personal checks
will take 10 days to clear before we can begin work on
your amp. You may Email us your address and your phone
number, or you may send this information along with the
amp.
West Labs will inspect your amp to make sure it is in good
working condition. We will test your tubes on our
Hickok
539A Tube Tester and our Otto-1 Multi Tube Tester
and Matching System. If your tubes are not up to snuff we
will replace them with
Sovtek tubes and bill them on your final bill. Cost
will be $12.00 per tube. We will then modify and test
your amp. It will not be shipped until it meets our
standards for power, playability, and tone.
West Labs is trying to return all
upgrades within 7 days, As our backlog increases this
may stretch out some. If the box you sent your amp in
does not meet our standards, a new one will be furnished
and $10.00 will be added to your final bill. We will
ship your amp back to you via UPS insured. The ACTUAL
UPS cost of shipping will be
added to your final bill.
West Laboratoriestm will notify you when your
amp is done and send you your final bill via Email. We
expect this bill to paid paid promptly with
Paypal or
mail us a check. Your amp will be shipped immediately upon receipt
of funds into our bank account.
If you currently do not own a Valve
Junior to be upgraded, we can furnish a brand new core unit to
be upgraded. The head will cost $170.00
and the Combo will cost $220.00. Remember that you
do not have to pay to ship the unit to us! The cost of the core, and 50% of the cost of the upgrade will be
due to start an upgrade for you.
Menu
|
Epiphone ValveJr
|
