About me

Hi there!

My name is Sergey Zababurin, I am building guitar tube amps and repairing old tube radios. Want to repair your gear or have a custom amp? Reach out at: Serg dot Zababurin at gmail dot com. Otherwise enjoy the beauty of valve technologies, it is going to be a lot of pictures.  

A bit more about me

I got started in electronics in a middle school. Late eighties  was an amazing time when you had to do it yourself if you need something. I build my first amp at about thirteen and first guitar pedal at 15. Never played guitar myself, had best friend instead who played in a band. I spent tons of time writing down schematic from magazines or disassembling used electronics found on dumps for parts. Lucky enough I got a great support from some dad's friends, grown man willing to spend their time talking to a boy or sharing their parts\books.

The hobby has later developed into a master’s degree in applied physics and first student job as an electronic assembler. Then life made a turn, I moved to IT field and computer networking which is what I am doing so far for almost 20 years. Another great turn was an immigration to Canada in 2018. I am currently working as a technical architect in a big telco company, holding Cisco CCNP and Juniper JNCIP certificates along with some other Cloud, Cyber Sec, and platform ones. 

My hobby to electronics was on a long pause till about a year ago a friend of mine asked me to help their 10 years old boy with his first circuit. I realized how much I am missing smell of rosin flux and little pieces of wire scattered all around the house. It took less then a month to fill a bookcase with tools, piles of boxes full of parts, wire bobbins, and old radio chassis. More fun to come..

October 2025, Halifax, NS