The Eagle 100
January 2022 – The Eagle 100 amp was intended to be an amp package that I could offer for under $100. If you want to learn more of the details the whole story is over on the AmpGarage forum: https://ampgarage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13407
Woody Creech on stage with the Sim Balky Band
It’s funny that one of my most popular and road tested amps turns out to be perhaps the simplest one of them all.
Turns out that is entirely possible to build a nice little amp for less than 100 dollar bill, but the thing I found was that the desire for the simple amp was not as great as the various custom mods that folks were asking for. After this fling ran it’s course and I had built a few, I put this project to rest because the custom requests defeated my efforts to make this $100 amp package. Just one of the many ideas that didn’t quite turn out the way I thought it would.
I built a couple of these and still have at least one of them around for the occasions where I want to tinker with a minimal sized tube amp. One of the other mistakes I made in marketing these was to create a tube hanger version and a tubes up version. It is too simple of an amp to merit the optional versions.
I found these photos of my prototype. I think it was the one that I made into a finished head and sent off to market.
I packaged this up in a nice little head cab and made a custom faceplate for a guy named Woody that played in a country band. This was his main amp until I sold him one of my Eagle Supre amps.
Thank you for looking! rj