Hackaday featured [hackaday.com] the work of "Simplified," a craftsperson who moved from building incandescent bulbs and gas discharge lamps to making vacuum diodes and triodes [neocities.org], and an audio amplifier [neocities.org] designed around them.
In a 2014 article [hackaday.com] the site set forth procedures for making what it calls "artisanal vacuum tubes."