ScumbackSpeakers
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OK, I'll snap some photos tomorrow. I hope we both learn something.
Saw your pics, obviously a 412 cab with pinstripe cloth is 67 or earlier. Your handles are the same size as mine,
the bracing on the bottom of the baffle board is the same as well.
I've got an old basketweave slant here, used to be owned by Queen, then George Lynch of Dokken, and some band named "Nazgul"
from all of the stencils on the back. It's got late 67 (Oct/November) G12M 20w T1221's in it...but it has basketweave cloth, not
pinstripe cloth.
Here's the insides of a 68 slant I restored 10 years ago...serial #: 29999
Here's the insides of a 67 slant I restored 11 years ago...it had the salt & pepper basketweave cloth, not pinstripe.
My conclusion is that (typical Marshall) there was the usual lengthy transition period from pinstripe to basketweave
cloth, narrow flange metal handles to wide flange metal handles, G12M 20w to G12M 25w, etc, etc.
I've never seen a 68 cab with the side to side bracing on the baffle board, or with narrow flange metal
handles, so the bracing and the narrow flange metal handles are kind of the determining factor for me
on the age since I have the other ones (minus the pinstripe cloth). My understanding is that the serial #'s on the
cabs aren't sequential for dating purposes, and some of my own cabs have serial #'s before and after the 68
slant's 29999 and they're from 69-72.
My restoration thread on that 68 slant is here on the TGP forum if anyone cares to see it.
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/i...estoration-not-for-the-faint-of-heart.214442/
Basically I think this comes down to pinstripe cloth is definitely 67 or earlier, and basketweave started sneaking in
at the end of 67 since it's definitely in the 1968 Marshall catalogs.
Thanks for the pics, F-Hole!