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Post subject: Where can I get blonde style fender emblems?
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 2:14 pm
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Im looking for a blonde style fender emblem for an amp project.
A super-sonic style emblem would be fine.
Just have not seen them available anywhere.


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Post subject: Re: Where can I get blonde style fender emblems?
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:43 pm
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Your Fender Dealer can probably help, or you might try Ebay...but they ain't cheap that's for sure.

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Post subject: Re: Where can I get blonde style fender emblems?
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:45 pm
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Fender's flat amp logos are now extremely rare since they are no longer available as accessories. Ebay is probably your best bet as they pop up there from time to time. Expect to pay double (or more) over the price of a standard blackface/silverface type.

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Post subject: Re: Where can I get blonde style fender emblems?
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 5:02 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
Fender's flat amp logos are now extremely rare since they are no longer available as accessories. Ebay is probably your best bet as they pop up there from time to time. Expect to pay double (or more) over the price of a standard blackface/silverface type.

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Any idea why they stopped being available as accessories...they still use them on the Supersonic series amps :?:

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Post subject: Re: Where can I get blonde style fender emblems?
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:09 pm
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T2Stratman wrote:
Any idea why they stopped being available as accessories...they still use them on the Supersonic series amps


Fender discontinued the sale of logos as accessories to the general public to prevent weisenheimers like me from building beautiful clones like this......

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Post subject: Re: Where can I get blonde style fender emblems?
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:14 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
T2Stratman wrote:
Any idea why they stopped being available as accessories...they still use them on the Supersonic series amps


Fender discontinued the sale of logos as accessories to the general public to prevent weisenheimers like me from building beautiful clones like this......

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I knew you would have an answer for that one...glad to see you are taking care of "MY" Pro Amp :!: :mrgreen:

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Post subject: Re: Where can I get blonde style fender emblems?
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 8:29 pm
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There must be some real jerks at Fender these days. The quality of their products seems low and overpriced. And now they won't even supply parts like name badges for our amps!

Even though I love some new amps like super-sonic, I would never again buy a newer product from them. I just can't justify paying that kind of money for something that more than likely will have a quality problem.

Vintage or nothing, from now on for me! It's a shame though.


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Post subject: Re: Where can I get blonde style fender emblems?
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 11:58 pm
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I'll say it again....man,that's a beautiful amp RJ!


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Post subject: Re: Where can I get blonde style fender emblems?
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 12:52 am
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Thanks, RS!

I played a small pub tonight and used it in tandem with my Spankmaster Reverb. The Fat '50's in my ash hardtail Mary Kaye just make that combination wail!

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Post subject: Re: Where can I get blonde style fender emblems?
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 12:55 am
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Arjay, When did Fender go the slightly darker shade of brown tolex? And if you think finding at flat logo is bad, try finding a good brown faceplate. :roll:

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Post subject: Re: Where can I get blonde style fender emblems?
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 1:05 am
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I think the brown Tolex (actually, "Nubtex") grew darker in color with each passing year until it was discontinued in the fall of '63. The first browns in 1960 looked visibly paler and more "pinkish". The brown dog bone handles also seemed to change in color, coincident with the differences in the brown Nubtex.

Hardware and chassis parts for the browns are extremely difficult to find. My front panel is an etched-and-laminated plastic repro, made by Doug Stalter when he still had his "Vintones" line of parts.

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Post subject: Re: Where can I get blonde style fender emblems?
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:26 am
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Here's a shot of the difference of Brown amps in two years...the 1960 Super has the "pinkish" rough tolex and the faceplate is a chocolate color,the grill cloth is leftover from the tweed era.
The 1962 Princeton has the "browner" covering with the wheat colored cloth,the faceplate is darker...there's many other changes,but those are the ones that catch your eye first.
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Post subject: Re: Where can I get blonde style fender emblems?
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 8:35 am
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Thanks, for the answer. I keep getting the blonde & various brown tolex eras mixed up. Were there some models that had different colored tolex the same model year? Seems to me I've seen blonde 1962 Twins with "wheat colored" grille and brown 1962 Vibroverb with similar colored grille. Or maybe someone just redid the covers.


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Post subject: Re: Where can I get blonde style fender emblems?
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 9:25 am
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The "blonde era" actually coincides with the "brown era". Both coverings were introduced with the commencement of the 1960 model year.

Blonde Nubtex was used on all production piggybacks and the combo Twin Amp, while the remaining combos (save for the Champ Amp) were covered in brown.

Initially, oxblood grill cloth was selected to complement the blonde covering while the brown amps "made do" with the leftover stocks of tweed-era cloth. Around mid-year of 1960 the browns also received the oxblood. Both the browns and the blondes would transition to the wheatstraw cloth, beginning in 1961.

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Post subject: Re: Where can I get blonde style fender emblems?
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:04 am
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It's not hard to get confused over the era between tweed and blackface...and maybe that has something to do with their being somewhat the "redheaded stepchild at the family reunion"....but they are exceptional amps.


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