Gold Tone
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After many months (many, many months) of searching for as many NOS parts as possible, finding the absolute BEST repro part if NOS was impossible to find, and many hours of work...my '58/'59 Tweed Bassman is finally done!!
Cabinet is extremely accurate repro by Gregg Hopkins, MM iron, vintage: tubes, speakers, caps, resistors, tube sockets and shields, knobs, speaker jacks, light, fuse holder, etc, etc...
Gregg Hopkins also suppled the vintage correct "Victoria Luggage Co." amp cover made with NOS roll of tan material as used in the original covers.
Even folowed the lead dress/layout as closely as possible by comparing many photos.
Found the right shade green paint that was used as "lock tight" for the speaker jacks nuts.
This is about as close to a real vintage Tweed Bassman as can be built today.
I spent A LOT of time making sure each and every solder joint is sound and perfect.
The end result is an amp that is dead quiet (no hum, crackle, pops...nothing!) and sounds better than any of my other amps (around 18 vintage amps by Marshall, Fender, Supro, etc, etc).
I couldn't be happier with the result!! WELL worth the time and effort...I highly recommend this project to all tone lovers.
Thanks for looking!
Cheers,
GT
Cabinet is extremely accurate repro by Gregg Hopkins, MM iron, vintage: tubes, speakers, caps, resistors, tube sockets and shields, knobs, speaker jacks, light, fuse holder, etc, etc...
Gregg Hopkins also suppled the vintage correct "Victoria Luggage Co." amp cover made with NOS roll of tan material as used in the original covers.
Even folowed the lead dress/layout as closely as possible by comparing many photos.
Found the right shade green paint that was used as "lock tight" for the speaker jacks nuts.
This is about as close to a real vintage Tweed Bassman as can be built today.
I spent A LOT of time making sure each and every solder joint is sound and perfect.
The end result is an amp that is dead quiet (no hum, crackle, pops...nothing!) and sounds better than any of my other amps (around 18 vintage amps by Marshall, Fender, Supro, etc, etc).
I couldn't be happier with the result!! WELL worth the time and effort...I highly recommend this project to all tone lovers.
Thanks for looking!
Cheers,
GT
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