New Old Fender Amp

[steveb63]

Long story associated with this amp, basically ended up buying it after scavenging parts off it for years lol.

It's Fender's last point to point hand wired amp, 75 vwatts, built in 1980, supposedly to compete with Mesa. It doesn't, but the cleans are great.

I have some work to do restoring, as I having been borrowing parts from it for about the last twenty years.

And here it is.....

 

[Don O]

You guys have an amp boneyard in AZ?

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

15 inch speaker?>

 

[67plexi]

This Fender amp is a 1983 I like the blue book price

 

[steveb63]

15 inch speaker?>

Yes sir, all transformer and speaker lil, 68 lbs.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

LOL Steveb63, a few pounds more than a bucket of Heavyweight Drywall mud.

I think my Red Knob The twin weighs around 80 or 90 lbs if I remember right.

 

[steveb63]

You guys have an amp boneyard in AZ?

Was in a corner of our practice studio, for the past ten years and well, I needed tubes one time.
A toggle switch next, you get the picture.
When the owner went to use it, he was none too happy.
I offered to buy it, and he sold it to me at a very reasonable price.

 

[Amp Mad Scientist]

This Fender amp is a 1983 I like the blue book price

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Every time I see a super champ, I am motivated to rip out the 6C10 and rebuild the preamp into something devious.
I also wanna put a 10 inch speaker in that puppy. (it fits with a shoe horn)

 

[steveb63]

This Fender amp is a 1983 I like the blue book price

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I'll get some photos when I get the chassis removed when I start the "rehab"

 

[Clockworkmike]

Long story associated with this amp, basically ended up buying it after scavenging parts off it for years lol.

It's Fender's last point to point hand wired amp, 75 vwatts, built in 1980, supposedly to compete with Mesa. It doesn't, but the cleans are great.

I have some work to do restoring, as I having been borrowing parts from it for about the last twenty years.

And here it is.....

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Reminds me of chopping parts off an old Honda Trail 70 to build two others when i was a kid. Ended up just putting the scavenger bike back together as well by the end of it all lol

 

[Clockworkmike]

LOL Steveb63, a few pounds more than a bucket of Heavyweight Drywall mud.

I think my Red Knob The twin weighs around 80 or 90 lbs if I remember right.

You gotta red knob twin? Those are kinda hard to come by these days!

 

[steveb63]

You gotta red knob twin? Those are kinda hard to come by these days!

No, actually more of a Marshall guy.

I have the 75, and an old Vibrolux, for my cleaner type amps.

The red knobs were fairly gnarly as far as I recommend.

 

[67plexi]

I still have two Fender Vibrolux amps 1961 and a 1964

 

[syscokid]

It's Fender's last point to point hand wired amp, 75 vwatts, built in 1980,

I use to have one. Bought it new in '80. It came with a 12" Electrovoice speaker. Sold it in the mid '90s. I wish I still had it.

 

[steveb63]

I use to have one. Bought it new in '80. It came with a 12" Electrovoice speaker. Sold it in the mid '90s. I wish I still had it.

This is the 15" version, great for the "Texas" blues sound.

 

[eSGEe]

15" .....damn Haus you BRINGING it

 

[steveb63]

Damn thing is heavy brotha.

Wait till you see the size of the transformers.

It's kinda comical, the components would suggest a higher price tag. It just has no real fanbase.

The clean, with a 15", would be awesome for some country type playing. It has a real "typical" Fender clean, if I'm remembering correctly.

 

[eSGEe]

Wait till you see the size of the transformers.

dated a girl like that from Toledo