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FS: EARLY 70s SFDR

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From: Lord Valve
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.

_________________________________________________________

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

     VISIT MY WEBSITE:  http://www.nebsnow.com/LordValve
      I specialize in top quality HAND SELECTED NOS and
        current-production vacuum tubes for guitar and
           bass amps.  Good  prices, fast service.
     QSC amps, RNC compressors, lots of other good stuff!

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