The lead dress is the key, and IME it will be the dress around the phase inverter and output tubes that will make or brake you. Be carefull testing while the amp is oscillating - you can overheat the power tubes without hearing much at all (they can be going ballistic at a very HF). One thing to be carefull of are the primary leads of the OT - keep them tight together and away from the board (tight down against the chassis). The secondary leads should be as short as practical and away from the pre-amp leads as much as possible. Some little things that *might* help: 1. if you don't already have 5.6k grid stoppers, now's a good time. 2. try a bigger cap across the PI plates (stock is 47pF, try 100pF or 250pF) Maybe not something you want to leave in there, but it can help find the problem in the meantime. The longtail PI is prone to a self osc around 47kHz if I recall correctly. 3. Try putting a 100-ohm resistor on each power tube socket on pin 3. Attach the plate lead to the resistor. This can help dampen an osc in the plate circuit (by changing the Q). It won't affect the tone.. no worries. 4. Shielding the input jacks sometimes does the trick. (you have to fabricate a metal shield to go around the jacks.. a good bit of work.) You might VERY CAREFULLY poke around the wires leading to the preamp tube sockets, especially the (generally) purple wire that carries the negative feedback signal from the impedance selector to the circuit board. I like to use an insulated pair of small neddlenose pliers for this. I would set the amp up so it is oscillating and then start CAREFULLY (did I stress that enough?) moving wires around. If the oscillation changes, you're probably pretty close. I would then try to find a wire position where the amp doesn't oscillate. In general, I usually put the filament and grid wires as far apart as possible and I do this by pushing the filament wires against the chassis and leaving the grid wires up in the air. You have to be careful about where they go though.