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Post subject: Princeton Reverb II, Super Pro Series
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 12:51 am
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A rare sighting: https://www.avenue-guitars.com/fenderprincetonreverb.htm

Paul Rivera is quoted in Tom Wheeler's The Soul of Tone:
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I came up with a plan in ’82 to sneak some new amps past the accounting department. I got so tired of the negative ‘You can’t do a low-volume amp’ thing that I conspired with purchasing and the factory in Hoopeston, Illinois. I had some dovetailed oak plank cabinets done in Indiana by the company that made home organ cabinets for Gulbransen. The front panels were made by Miller Dial [El Monte, CA] in Champagne Beige and Choco Brown. Mellotone [Wendell Fabrics, Blacksburg, SC] had a run of matching grille cloths made as well. Kurz-Kasch [Dayton, OH] made the knobs for us and did a perfect color match.

It was a fun project, and we did succeed in doing it below the corporate radar. We called them the Super Pro Series, and we did the Super Champ, Princeton II, and Concert 1x12, each with an EVM speaker and a padded brown slip cover. We only built a hundred pieces of each one for the whole world. They are rare puppies. I have Super Champ #1.


All that is missing from the photographs is the amber glow of the jewel when the amp is running. The price is eye-watering.

Wheeler, Tom. The Soul of Tone: Celebrating sixty years of Fender amps. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard, 2007, pp339-40


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Post subject: Re: Princeton Reverb II, Super Pro Series
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:49 am
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Being a 2x10 Concert owner, I always liked the oak cosmetics and that is one clean example! Thanks for posting!

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