Stratoben127
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Wow. On Saturday I walked into a guitar store to browse and ended up putting some money down on a well-priced Quad Reverb. At the same time I was also testing some guitars out through a player grade '65 Deluxe that sounded remarkably good. I had pretty much no money aside for a few hundred for the Quad though. Turns out, my good friend (and a burst owner) was actually the former owner of the Quad.
So I called him up and he said he's been trying to get some money together to buy it back from the store, but if I want it I could grab it and sell it to him if I ever wanted to let it go. During this phone call he asked me to come out and play at a gig he had the next day (Sunday). So I came out, brought my reissue Deluxe that I barely use because most of my gigs are on a 50 watt Alessandro (dream amp #1), and we got to talking. His main amp is a '65 Deluxe. I mentioned before the gig how much I loved the portability of the reissue Deluxe for small gigs over the Alessandro, but it sounded crappy, especially compared to his '65. He asked me if I had plugged into the '65 Deluxe at the store with the replaced PT and I said yes, and he said it's a great amp and I really should try to talk them down on it because it was priced on the high side.
So that night I listed the RI Deluxe and some other things on Reverb and made $1,100 in four hours. I was thinking I could talk the guy down a few hundred and grab the Deluxe at the store for under two grand. Around the same time, a trade deal I was in the middle of started to go sour, so I got my other Alessandro that I was in the process of trading away back. I decided to throw that on Reverb and this morning it sold. So I ended up with almost $2,500 extra in my pocket. Time to go shopping!
I spent all of today shopping around and couldn't find a single Vibrolux, Deluxe, or Pro that I liked enough in my price range. I was ready to just hold off until the right one came around so I just clicked on the Reverb home page before closing my computer, and the newest listing was for a '64 no-logo Deluxe Reverb (the exact variety I wanted) that was all original save for a cap job and three prong cord. I made an offer that was immediately accepted and now I have a clean '64 Deluxe with a road case and old RCA tubes coming for well under $2,500. Dream amp #2 is mine. Unfortunately it will get here while I'm away next week. The wait begins...
Shitty teaser pic:
And this is dream amp #1, now my main rig, pictured with my '53 "semi-conversion" Les Paul "Patchy."
So I called him up and he said he's been trying to get some money together to buy it back from the store, but if I want it I could grab it and sell it to him if I ever wanted to let it go. During this phone call he asked me to come out and play at a gig he had the next day (Sunday). So I came out, brought my reissue Deluxe that I barely use because most of my gigs are on a 50 watt Alessandro (dream amp #1), and we got to talking. His main amp is a '65 Deluxe. I mentioned before the gig how much I loved the portability of the reissue Deluxe for small gigs over the Alessandro, but it sounded crappy, especially compared to his '65. He asked me if I had plugged into the '65 Deluxe at the store with the replaced PT and I said yes, and he said it's a great amp and I really should try to talk them down on it because it was priced on the high side.
So that night I listed the RI Deluxe and some other things on Reverb and made $1,100 in four hours. I was thinking I could talk the guy down a few hundred and grab the Deluxe at the store for under two grand. Around the same time, a trade deal I was in the middle of started to go sour, so I got my other Alessandro that I was in the process of trading away back. I decided to throw that on Reverb and this morning it sold. So I ended up with almost $2,500 extra in my pocket. Time to go shopping!
I spent all of today shopping around and couldn't find a single Vibrolux, Deluxe, or Pro that I liked enough in my price range. I was ready to just hold off until the right one came around so I just clicked on the Reverb home page before closing my computer, and the newest listing was for a '64 no-logo Deluxe Reverb (the exact variety I wanted) that was all original save for a cap job and three prong cord. I made an offer that was immediately accepted and now I have a clean '64 Deluxe with a road case and old RCA tubes coming for well under $2,500. Dream amp #2 is mine. Unfortunately it will get here while I'm away next week. The wait begins...
Shitty teaser pic:
And this is dream amp #1, now my main rig, pictured with my '53 "semi-conversion" Les Paul "Patchy."
