Classic Amplification is a small custom-shop style business located in Sammamish Washington (USA) doing custom building, repairing, modification work on guitars, tube amps, effects, and Studio equipment.

Building, repairing and rewinding pickups, and guitar electronics.

Classic Amplification started with me back in the late 70's as a technical service for working professional musicians and has developed over the years into a small custom-shop style business. Most of my work is one-off and limited-run production jobs.

Classic Amplification currently doesn't mass-produce anything, all work is performed on a custom order basis.

Brad Burt

Just for some nostalgia-fun, here's a picture of the very first custom job I did back in 1978 on my own guitar, a Gibson SG that I gig'ed with until 1987:

The wine red Gibson SG was purchased new in 1978, it had a fairly uncommon Ebony fingerboard and the small square position markers, no binding.

The stock pickups were those awfull epoxy potted humbucker (horrible tone) pickups, they got removed right away and replaced with DiMarzio "Dual-Sound" which were the thing to have back then, the wiring was Phase switch on Bridge PU, Series-Parallel-Coils on both, and Series-Parallel-Pickups which was my first spin on getting a sound nobody had back then.

A few of my other interests...

1967 SS 350 Camaro, 290 Cam, 4:56 Posi, and 4 speed M21 Muncy
(best 1/4 mile time was 12 seconds at Bremerton Raceway)

1965 Mustang, stock 289, was my daily driver for years.

Finally, my favorite interest and pastime is hanging out with my lovely wife Anne...

Cheers!

© 2002 Brad Burt