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Steamboat 9 Year Anniversary Party & Charity Fundraiser

Steamboat Amps celebrates 9 years in business with a new partnership and charity fundraising event February 8th, 2018 Sponsored by Sugarhill Studios, St Arnold's Brewery, Moving Sidewalk and Nite Owls Print Shop. Let us know you are interested on Facebook! Houston, TX -- Jacob "Captain Jake" Rynearson started Steamboat Amps in January of [...]

By |2018-02-03T13:22:55+00:00February 3rd, 2018|Blog|Comments Off on Steamboat 9 Year Anniversary Party & Charity Fundraiser

VoyageHouston – Meet Jacob Rynearson of Steamboat

We were recently featured in VoyageHouston! Here is the article: Today we’d like to introduce you to Jacob Rynearson. Thanks for sharing your story with us Jacob. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there. In 2006 I started working for Hawkins Amplification under an apprenticeship building and repairing guitar [...]

By |2017-06-15T19:36:24+00:00June 15th, 2017|Blog|Comments Off on VoyageHouston – Meet Jacob Rynearson of Steamboat

Mini Maxin’

Recently I acquired a Mini Max bandsaw.  I was originally looking for a saw in the 14" wheel size range, but this 18" behemoth popped up at just the right time for a fair price.  Luckily, the owner kept the 1980's saw in great condition and it only needed some minor cleaning and set up, [...]

By |2015-10-08T12:55:00+00:00October 8th, 2015|Blog|Comments Off on Mini Maxin’

All Pro

Ever since I began repairing tube amps, nearly ten years ago, I've been up to my eyeballs in vintage Fenders.  In that time, I've seen nearly every iteration of Fender's amplifier legacy - from Champ amps to Twin Reverbs, Musicmasters to the insane 400PS.  I remember the first time I ever saw a blonde Fender, [...]

By |2015-06-08T10:00:00+00:00June 8th, 2015|Blog|Comments Off on All Pro

MFAH Shadow Monsters

This year I was commissioned to design custom speakers for an exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.  Artist Phillip Worthington's Shadow Monsters is an interactive multimedia work which utilizes audience participation, video and audio.  The unique challenges of this project were to incorporate three separate sound systems in the MFAH's glorious Cullinan Hall, [...]

By |2015-05-29T09:30:00+00:00May 29th, 2015|Blog|Comments Off on MFAH Shadow Monsters

Marshall 8×10 Restoration

Last year we had a customer bring us a classic 1970's Marshall 8x10.  The cab was in pretty poor shape - even the finger joints were starting to loose.  At Steamboat we stripped her down, patched up the damaged areas, and replaced all of the tolex, grill cloth, piping and handles.   Finally we re-wired the [...]

By |2015-05-26T05:17:00+00:00May 26th, 2015|Blog|Comments Off on Marshall 8×10 Restoration

Git-bildin’

For years myself and several friends have been experimenting with different guitar building techniques.  We've explored the typical "parts" guitar projects, where the guitar is assembled from all pre-built parts, and then later moved on to more advanced guitar building techniques implementing one-piece mahogany bodies, bolt-on style necks from a variety of wood species and [...]

By |2014-05-12T22:43:00+00:00May 12th, 2014|Blog|Comments Off on Git-bildin’

Kid tested, Mother disproves

What is it about the electric guitar that transcends our culture? Is it the look - an instrument strung over the player's shoulder like a battle axe? Is it the player - a grimacing, rebellious showman flailing on the strings while sliding across the stage? Or is it the sound?  As loud as your electric [...]

By |2014-02-07T11:50:00+00:00February 7th, 2014|Blog|Comments Off on Kid tested, Mother disproves

Duplum Temporis

Here's a custom order long in the making.  Here's a description of this amp in a series of haikus: A guitarist needs Tools of the trade; an input Output, and in'tween Effects and Channels Scrambling trammels and room sound Master volume, noise Tone stack, Tone stack two Forced feedback, pentode output Adjustable bias [...]

By |2013-06-13T16:19:00+00:00June 13th, 2013|Blog|Comments Off on Duplum Temporis

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