Lots of Stella Amp news

By John, 20 June, 2012

First off, I'm starting something new. I've arranged with a friend of mine to pre-build some Stella Amp kits! So for an extra assembly fee, you can get the board pre-soldered. All the wires and potentiometers and such are not soldered. If you want one of these you will still have to solder on the pots and the input jack and the like. If you are unsure of your soldering skills or if you just want to save yourself some time, you can pick one of these up.

I want to be clear, this is just the board with all of the components that will be assembled. It won't come with a speaker or a cigar box, and it certainly won't be ready to play. You'll still have to put some DIY elbow grease into getting it to work. But if your favorite part of making an amp is the woodworking or the exterior decoration, and you find the the actual electronics assembly tedious, then this will be a way that you can outsource some of that tedium.

Oh, and if you want to sell assembled Stella Amp kits on ebay or something, I do offer quantity discounts on kits. Unfortunately, I don't have any way of making that quantity discount happen automatically with my shopping cart software (although that feature is on my massive list of things to do). So if you want to order a bunch of kits, drop me a line at support@crazybutable.com, let me know what kind of volume you are interested in, and we'll talk.

Finally, I wouldn't normally tell you all this, but I just bought a postage scale. That means I can start fighting with my shopping cart to offer shipping based on weight. Once I can ship based on weight (instead of stuffing everything in USPS flat rate boxes), I can offer things for sale in the store that don't fit in the standard flat rate box. Things like speakers and cigar boxes. But that's all coming in the future, and I don't even know how far in the future it's going to be because I don't know how hard it's going to be.

Interesting times!

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