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Post subject: Re: Grading & Collecting Vintage Fender Amps
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 1:05 pm
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This is just phenomenal stuff. :shock:
I'm spellbound by every post.


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Post subject: Re: Grading & Collecting Vintage Fender Amps
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 7:28 pm
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Amizing how much of this vintage stuff is still around. I remember seeing this old gray metal Kauffman and Fender amp sitting in the corner of a tech's workroom. Boy, I would have love to have that one.

Paper. I have this 1948 original Champion 600. Think the "x-out" on the tube chart is Leo's handwriting?

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Post subject: Re: Grading & Collecting Vintage Fender Amps
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:24 pm
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It's very possible, Leo was so involved with the final prep and shipping of the products, especially in the early days and into the 50s, Pre-Forrest White.

I also have an early 2-tone Champ with the crossed-out tube chart, I will look at mine and see what the s/n is and photo the tube chart.

If you think about it, Leo was building amps a year after WWII, and Jazz music was all the rage. Western & Country Western was just starting to get popular.

When you look at the chassis of my Woody Deluxe you can see Leo used the Western Electric Cloth Covered wire, the wire with the black dotted lines on it. It's high end tinned copper, the best in it's day.

Leo's success was using the absolute best available materials, components, caps, resistors available back then, and he made a "Works-in-a-drawer" serviceable chassis that was easily removable and easy to work on.

Solving the problem on the early Tweeds by drilling 1/4" holes in the edge of the top/cab and driving 4-1/2" long 1/4" wooden dowels in the tops to add strength to the chassis screw/bolt holes and the dowels prevented the small wooden-return pieces from breaking. The box jointed cab, the 1/4" dowels, the soft pine for warm tone.

Sometimes good designs happen by accident, but when it comes to Leo Fender, the man was a genius.


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Post subject: Re: Grading & Collecting Vintage Fender Amps
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 2:36 pm
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paper wrote:
Leo's success was using the absolute best available materials, components, caps, resistors available back then, and he made a "Works-in-a-drawer" serviceable chassis that was easily removable and easy to work on.


There's a lesson for all amp manufacturers to be learned here...... :wink:

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Sometimes good designs happen by accident, but when it comes to Leo Fender, the man was a genius.


Absolutely! Like Alex Bell, Tommy Edison, Jimmy Lansing, and others...... 8)

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Post subject: Re: Grading & Collecting Vintage Fender Amps
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 4:58 pm
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Arjay,

I agree with you on the Musical Pioneers you listed,
Jim Lansing was the high quality in the 50s HiFi craze
and his name lives-on even stronger today.

We have a new May of 2012 JBL Line Array system, the VT4888 speaker system is 8-high on each side and will do up to a 30,000 seat arena. The system is powered with the new Crown IT12000HD amps 5 each side and the Avid Venue SC48 main board controls the show. We put subs on the outside corners of the stage for this show. You have to go to JBL School for a week to learn how to properly set-up this system so the audience enjoys the full sound experience. A few degrees off and the sound goes up to the ceiling.

If you download the VT4888 pdf from a Google search you will see a detailed schematic of the speakers. All snakes are Socapex and the full system will assemble together in an afternoon with our custom pigtails.

He is a photo of the speakers set-up at a show..

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