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Post subject: Dating a '65 Super Reverb Reissue & other questions
Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 8:16 am
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I just picked up a '65 Super Reverb off of fleebay. It was represented as a 2006 model, but I'm trying to verify this. The production date code says JA, which per the fender site means it was produced in Jan 1999. But my understanding is that these were not reissued until 2001. So, I'm a bit confused. Am I reading the code incorrectly?

I understand that the new ones are made in mexico, is that true? I don't see a "made in XXX" anywhere other than the "A product of Fender.... Corona, CA". I'll take that mine is MIA, correct?

The speakers in mine were replaced with Copperheads and Rajun Cajuns. What's the consensus on how these sound compared to the Jensens? I have Jensens in my Custom Vibrolux Reverb, but I have never been happy with that amp - not sure if it was the amp or the speakers.

Thanks for the help.


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Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 11:00 am
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Take a look at the EIA manufacturing codes stamped on all of the amp's trannies -- those may be a more definitive way of pinning the build date down. AFAIK the '65 re-issues come from Corona, excepting the really early production models like mine that were made in Brea.

As for re-issue Jensens, I am no fan of them either. IMO the best OEM 10-inch speakers that Fender ever installed in a Super Reverb were these......

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They sound outstanding in a Princeton Reverb as well.

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