A Fine Example Of A Real T00b Amp

[Superlizard]

... as opposed to the sh!te they pump out nowadays.

In my sights - a near-mint '65 or '66 Fender Blackface Deluxe:

Guy (non-musician) bought it back in high school, "played" it here and there for a decade and then put it in a closet in his mom's house.

Been sitting there all safe and sound since the '70s.

I'll have to do the 3 prong power cord mod, get rid of the death cap and check the power caps as well as the routine bias and clean the pots, etc... .

Here's what it'll sound similar to (this clip is a "transitional" Silverface Deluxe Reverb; a slightly different circuit) - friend playing through one:

http://www.juhnke.com/mike/mp3s/DeluxeRBlooz.mp3

 

[mayfly]

Very nice!  I like these old blackfaces (I've got a '66 super - which sounds just, er, super!)

You also might want to look after that funky looking speaker cable (if that's what it is - hard to tell from the photo).
BTW - does he have the missing back plate?

 

[tfarny]

Oh! Me Want! Wow.

 

[Patrick from Davis]

Nice find.  That is the next project, err maybe, to build a Deluxe Reverb.  I'll probably buy a Hoffman board for it, but I really like those amps.  That speaker cord does look a bit iffy.  I'd sacrifice a power cable and make a clean looking one.  Just me...
Patrick

 

[DangerousR6]

... as opposed to the sh!te they pump out nowadays.

In my sights - a near-mint '65 or '66 Fender Blackface Deluxe:

Guy (non-musician) bought it back in high school, "played" it here and there for a decade and then put it in a closet in his mom's house.

Been sitting there all safe and sound since the '70s.

I'll have to do the 3 prong power cord mod, get rid of the death cap and check the power caps as well as the routine bias and clean the pots, etc... .

Here's what it'll sound similar to (this clip is a "transitional" Silverface Deluxe Reverb; a slightly different circuit) - friend playing through one:

http://www.juhnke.com/mike/mp3s/DeluxeRBlooz.mp3

Very sweet find indeed. But Where's the Fender logo... :icon_scratch:  And what's the "death cap"....A capacitor with uncovered leads or something?... :dontknow:

 

[Mor Paul]

The only wear I see is on the speaker...  :tard:
Doesn't make much sense to me... how is the speaker more worn than the tolex, grill, and everything else?

 

[rockskate4x]

when my church didn't have an amp for me to use I carried my combo with me with pedals, music binders, cables, etc, all shoved in the back. I don't use this method anymore because the speaker did get damaged when the combo was used as a brief case. maybe this guy did the same thing.

 

[Superlizard]

The only wear I see is on the speaker...  :tard:
Doesn't make much sense to me... how is the speaker more worn than the tolex, grill, and everything else?

A long time ago he took the speaker out and put it back for some thing.

 

[Superlizard]

Very sweet find indeed. But Where's the Fender logo... :icon_scratch:  And what's the "death cap"....A capacitor with uncovered leads or something?... :dontknow:

Some of these models came out of the factory sans grille logo.  http://www.ampwares.com/amp.asp?id=58  The Deluxe *Reverb* certainly has one. 

The death cap is:

http://www.theguitarfiles.com/guitarfile644.html

 

[DangerousR6]

Very sweet find indeed. But Where's the Fender logo... :icon_scratch:   And what's the "death cap"....A capacitor with uncovered leads or something?... :dontknow:

Some of these models came out of the factory sans grille logo.  http://www.ampwares.com/amp.asp?id=58  The Deluxe *Reverb* certainly has one. 

The death cap is:

http://www.theguitarfiles.com/guitarfile644.html

I hope they've addressed the "death cap"  issue on modern amps these days....

 

[Superlizard]

I hope they've addressed the "death cap"  issue on modern amps these days....

I'd be... shocked if they didn't.

HEY-O!  *drumroll*  :toothy10:

 

[DangerousR6]

I hope they've addressed the "death cap"  issue on modern amps these days....

I'd be... shocked if they didn't.

HEY-O!  *drumroll*   :toothy10:

 

[T.L.]

That's a sweet amp.  I have a friend who has one just like it (only his is really beat up)...

 

[OzziePete]

You know, I had a copy version of this amp for my first amp when I started playing.

I got my first guitar and amp from my brother in law, who played guiatr in the surf sound era of the 60s.

Can't remember the name of the amp, but it did sound great really cranked up. The Vibrato circuit was nearly useless to me, as I was trying to get the Marshall sound of the poor thing.

Eventually age caught up with it and it blew. Or so I thought.

I took it to a repairer who did work for Fender, and they just took a quick look and said it was junk and couldn't be resurrected.

I was young and naive and just accepted that as it wasn't working so if these guys said so, then it must be junk...so I left it with them.

Quite a few years later, I saw the Deluxe reissued by Fender and then it had dawned on me that the amp I had was possibly a circuit copy of the Fender and that I had given those repair guys a 60s version Deluxe for nothing and maybe only the power transformer or some tubes had blown!

 

[Superlizard]

I took it to a repairer who did work for Fender, and they just took a quick look and said it was junk and couldn't be resurrected.

I was young and naive and just accepted that as it wasn't working so if these guys said so, then it must be junk...so I left it with them.

Quite a few years later, I saw the Deluxe reissued by Fender and then it had dawned on me that the amp I had was possibly a circuit copy of the Fender and that I had given those repair guys a 60s version Deluxe for nothing and maybe only the power transformer or some tubes had blown!

Yeah, those bungholes.  I don't trust anyone but myself and my close amp/geetar buddies for this kinda stuff.

 

[exalted]

I lost an awesome guitar that way.

A left-handed Chet Atkins SST. I was 17 and worked all summer to buy it. A week or two after I got it, I took it into the local music store; the owner told me the neck was warped, and it wasn't worth even half of what I paid for it. Devastated, I traded it to him for a new pickup installation on my bass and a hundred or so dollars in discounts on merchandise.

He also played left-handed, and a few weeks later, the other owner of the store told me that the guy I traded it to had been looking for a guitar like that for years.

Earlier this year, I read that Epiphone only made 12 copies of the guitar. Ever. As I haven't seen one since, I'm inclined to believe that's the truth.