First big post in a long while, as I've been changing jobs, getting married and having offspring!
A while ago I was gushing about my incredible luck at being able to buy a salty 1962 Fender BandMaster for cheapz. Here's the threadsurrection :
http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtop ... highlight=
Here's a piccy to jog yer grey matter of how she looked when I bought her for £40 in December 2011....
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I took the decision to return the amp back to standard by getting the amp tech I use (John@HarmonicElectronic Coventry) to remove the reverb tank & transformer, and return to standard.
My brief was to replace any valves and capacitors, resistors etc where needed, and tweak bias, replace power cable and clean everything. In the meantime I would sort the cabinet by cleaning the black tolex back to blonde, replace the front panel grill cloth, and replace the hardware with original stuff where needed.
After tons of Nitromors stripper, elbow grease and light wire brushing, I was no further forward than backwards!
Very soon it was becoming apparent I wasn't going to get the finish I was after, so I decided to cut my losses and purchase original blonde tolex from Solsound and recover using the original tolex pieces as templates.
Power jack hole filled, and whole head filled and sanded.
Made a new back panel out of spare ply, and routed inner holes with bevels like original ones.
End Results!!!
All in she owes me around £250, so cheap as chips and a sound investment. Oh yeh, it sounds SUPER AWESOME!!! especially the vibrato!!
Cheers
Johnny.
