Handmade Vacuum Tubes
While vacuum tubes are still used in specialty situations like guitar amps and enthusiast audio equipment, finding older models is becoming quite difficult as the supply dries up. Of course, if you’re awesome enough, you can simply make your own.
Claude Paillard is a French gentlemen who, from start to finish, handcrafts his own vacuum tubes. The above is part one of two videos, both of which painstakingly and marvelously detail his process.
Posted by carneywilson on Jun. 23, 2010