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Article #25FS: EARLY 70s SFDR
From: Lord Valve
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:28
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:28
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Lord Valve Selleth:
EARLY 70s FENDER SILVERFACE DELUXE REVERB, tweaked and
ready to rock. Details below!
THE FINE PRINT:
This item sold AS IS. No guarantee or warranty of
any type is expressed or implied. No personal checks
or CODs. No orders accepted by e-mail - use the
phone. First come, first served. USE MY CONVENIENT
LAYAWAY PLAN: HALF DOWN, AND THE REST RIGHT NOW. ;-)
I'll offer you a 7-day trial period, but if you return
it, you pay freight BOTH WAYS. See my sigfile for
contact details.
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I don't know what year this one is, but I'm eyeballin'
it at around '73-'74. No pull-boost switch. Has the
removable grille-frame. The Tolex is in good shape -
no major rips or holes anywhere. (I hot-glued a couple
of small dings on one of the bottom edges, but that's
about it.) I don't have time to give this amp a beauty
treatment, so you get it with 30 years of the normal
Tolex Grunge on it. (Some 409 and a bit of elbow
grease will work wonders on this one - I can tell.)
The grillecloth has no holes or tears, but it does show
the normal stress lines in the cloth that most amps
which use grille-frames exhibit. The knobs are in good
shape, the front panel has a few scratches but nothing
ugly. Both backs are in place and unbroken. Good
handle, good hardware. No rust.
WHAT'S NOT STOCK: First, it has a Celestion G12-K85
in it. Second, I blackfaced it. Third, I recapped
it with top-quality 'lytics - Sprague Atoms for the
HV supply, and some other good stuff you never heard
of for the cathode bypass caps. Fourth, I'm running
a GZ-34 in the rectifier hole. (Tube chart calls for
a 5U4GB.) Fifth, I didn't like the crummy plastic
right-angle RCA reverb tank leads, so I replaced them
with a pair of my vintage reproduction wires. (NO,
they don't sound any different - but they don't stick
out of the back of the amp and get broken all the time
like those crummy plastic ones do. They look cool,
too.) Sixth, I put a violet pilot jewel on it. (What
can I say - I'm partial to 'em. ;-)
This amp's been fully serviced - sockets cleaned
and retensioned, pots cleaned, anything that needed
resoldering got resoldered, etc. A cap job, as
stated above. One pot was replaced. Here's the tube
lineup, right to left, looking from the rear:
1) NOS Ruby Beijing grayplate 12AX7A
2) Ei/Yugo silverplate ECC83
3) NOS Philips JAN 12AT7WC/6201
4) NOS Philips JAN 12AX7WA
5) Audio Glassic Beijing grayplate 12AX7A (used)
6) NOS Philips JAN 12AT7WC/6201
7) NOS Philips JAN 6V6GTA
8) NOS Philips JAN 6V6GTA
9) Sovtek 5AR4/GZ34
I'll offer the buyer the option to go with a NOS
Philips JAN 5AR4 for $40 extra, or a NOS RCA or
Philips JAN 5U4GB for $20 extra. I'll also throw
in a brand new Fender reverb/trem switch (vintage
reproduction type) and a brand new Fender cover.
(The one that comes with a '65 reissue BFDR.)
Folks, this is a *kickass* amplifier. It sounds
*killer*. I did a few tweaks to it but it's pretty
damn close to stock. The price? A measly $749
plus shipping.
Now, before you go pitching a bitch about $749
being high bucks for a SFDR, remember - you don't
have to do *squat* to this amp besides clean the
Tolex. It won't need servicing, or tubes, or a
new speaker or reverb tank - nothing. It's ready
to rock, right out of the box. (Note that I will
ship this amp in two cartons - one for the amp
and the tubes, and one for the speaker. Amps
with particle-board baffles don't fare well if
shipped with the speaker installed; you'll have
to re-install it.) Not only that, it's been
imbued with the famous Lord Valve Mojo, known
for tone the world over. ;-)
Lord Valve
Tone Chaperone
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