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Post subject: Silver-Face grill cloth?
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:21 am
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I got a Pro-Reverb around 1968 (long gone, sigh...). It was a Silver-Face and I distinctly remember that the grill cloth had turquoise threads in it that matched the lettering. I've seen some newer Silver-Faces around recently and they look like that have regular Black-Face grill cloth. I'm wondering: Did they only use the matching grill cloth early in the Silver-Face period? Have the turquoise threads in the matching grill cloth faded so they look gray or silver? Are my eyes going? Is my memory going...?


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Post subject: Re: Silver-Face grill cloth?
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:09 pm
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There were several grill cloth variations used on the silverface amps -- all are era-specific and have significant differences. The first, introduced in 1967 when the drip-edge cosmetics appeared, had a weave comprised of primarily silver metallic, black, and pale blue (this latter color closely matched the amp name stenciled on the front panel). It was used only up until the end of the 1968 model year. Replacing it was a pattern consisting of metallic silver, ivory white, and metallic turquoise. This cloth periodically was used on a few drip-edge amps that were still shipping in 1969 (by 1970 the drip-edge molding was totally discontinued) and remained the standard until the 1974 model year. By then, the metallic turquoise vertical stripe was replaced by a rust-orange color (identical to the cloth used on those miserable solid-state "Zodiac" amps). In mid/late 1977 the stocks of orange cloth were exhausted and FMI reverted back to the 69-style weave, with the metallic turquoise vertical stripe. This remained standard up until around 1980, when a quasi-blackface cloth was employed (this coincided with the end of the silverface era and many amp models offered optional blackface cosmetics).

There are some exception to this, of course -- I've seen a paltry few documented-and-original instances of '67 blackface amps using the pale blue cloth (mostly Bassmans) and a few of the smaller combos in the mid '70s with the metallic turquoise variant.

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Post subject: Re: Silver-Face grill cloth?
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:58 pm
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Red, Wow did you set up Arjay! He LIVES for these type of questions. He is practically a walking Encylopedia (for you younger folks, those are books with mounds of information on everything) on Fender Amps and the minutia of them.

Great Answer there Arjay, precise, informative, the only thing you left out was some of your usual great humor!

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Post subject: Re: Silver-Face grill cloth?
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:44 pm
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T2Stratman wrote:
Great Answer there Arjay, precise, informative, the only thing you left out was some of your usual great humor!


Gimme a break! He's a newbie......I didn't wanna scare him off.

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