Epiphone Valve Junior, G-10 Garolite, Hand-wired Turret-board. Stop Losing Precious Tone.

Build a Fender Champ or Dr Z,   If you have a Multimeter and soldering iron read on

G-10 Garolite Turret-board Parts Kit Standard Parts Kit Elite

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The thin traces on the PCB ROB your tone, they have poor layout, with power traces running beside signal traces.
Changing a circuit is difficult on a PCB, even swapping parts can sometimes damage or lift the flimsy traces.
You can get get Boutique  sound.

Detailed instructions & Schematic will make the Build, Biasing and dialling in sweet crunchy distortion easy as building Lego.
The instructions include, Discharge the Capacitors, Measuring Voltages, Biasing the Valves, How to use different value parts to dial in a sound. Build it to Marshall, Fender or Badcat Specs.
You could use a 6V6GT tube instead of the EL84 by getting the bigger octal socket on the board.

Check mounting holes before installing components. Some turrets have a few components connected so it is easier in the end to tie the first components low on the turret. To put less heat into the diodes and capacitors, solder the wiring and resistors in first and tin the bus wire.

1m resistor (R1) is soldered across the input jack, from the signal to ground The Signal is picked up at pin 1 on the preamp socket, across the coupling cap to the right hand pin on the volume pot (white wire). Then from the centre pin on the volume pot(red wire) connects to pin7(control grid) on the preamp socket. The left hand pin on the volume pot is connected to ground. Connect up the seven wires from the transformers: Green Wire - Ground, Red Wires - High voltage Supply,  Orange Wires - 6.3 volt heater Supply , White & Yellow Wires - Output transformer,

Pull Down, R1 1M Metal Film Grid Stopper, R2 39K Vishay Dale Grid Stopper, R15 3.6K Carbon Comp Grid Leak, R5 560K Plate Load (2)91k Allen Bradley Carbon Comp Dropper 560r 3 Watt Metal Film Cathode 270r 2 watt Metal Oxide Screen grid 1k 2 watt Metal Oxide

Cathode (2)2k Allen Bradley Carbon Comp Bleeder 390k 2 watt  R12 4.7k 2 watt Kiwame R13 10k  2 watt Kiwame R16/R17 100r 2 watt Kiwame Cathode Caps (2)1uf/50v Power tube Cathode Cap 100uf/25v

Filter Caps (4)F&T 22uf/450v Coupling Caps (2)K40r PiO 0.022uf C11 .1uf MKT1813 Roederstein Diodes (4)Ultra-Fast UF4008 Circuit Board Tube Sockets x 2