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You can be old, fat, and bald with an Explorer shaped guitar if you play southern rock.

Sonny (tonewise) could crush most mere mortals playing a WalMart First Act through an iPod.

$600 I've been cruising my local Craigslist looking for a smaller amp than either my Super Reverb or my Boogie Mk IV, which I was tired of schlepping around (and had just sold). Due to my budget, I was mainly looking for either a silverface Princeton, Deluxe, or Vibrolux Reverb. I had inquired about a few, but none worked out for one reason or the other. Then last Friday I saw an ad for "66 Deluxe Reverb chassis only". Turns out it was an whole amp, but it had sat in a wet basement for quite a while and the cabinet was rotten, so he was just selling as the chassis. He was going to fix it up and had a cap job recently done, but was opening a new business the next day and needed insurance money right now. I know the guy, so when he told me that it fired up and sounded great I trusted him, so I bought it. The bottom of the cab was so rotten it fell off the cab when the guy first picked it up. The bottom back panel feels like paper, and the speaker was a mold garden. The amp? It had a lamp cord for a plug, which I figured was within my abilities to mod to a three-prong, so I did (Thanks internet!). Lamp cord Post Mod When the cap job was done, the tech had cleaned and re-tensioned the tube sockets, so I knew I was good there. Some light surface rust here and there, but the transformers looked to be in good shape. The speaker is fried, so I swapped in a no name Eminence speaker, hooked up the half-rusted reverb tank, grabbed a Strat and turned it on. Wow So that's a blackface Fender, eh? Now, my '74 SR is a nice sounding Fender in its own right, but this... First of all, other than new EH 6V6s, the rest are a mix of RCA, GE, and Amperex tubes, with the RCAs in V1&2, so I know that has something to do with it, but that big, glassy clean, the bit of 6V6 growl, with that full, loose low-end... Let's just say I'm not sad I sold my Mk IV to buy this rotten, old amp. So, while the tech who did the cap job made it workable, it still needs some TLC. There's reverb bleed through on the normal channel, the tremolo doesn't work, plus there seems to be, to me anyway, some abnormal speaker movement (read: a lot) when you really dig into the lower strings with a little volume. I just ordered another cabinet for it from Mather, but for now I just made a new bottom out of pine board. It works and is mostly invisible. I know I should get the 12k5-6 speaker reconed, but I've read that there a lot better speaker choices for a DR out there, so I'm in no hurry fix the stock one. All in all, I'm pretty happy with it. Even with a new cab and an once over by a tech, I should still be in < $1000 for a great amp.

Uh Kiz, Didn't you at least have one of these before? I am thinking #1 might have been in your possession. Hamerica I had all three, but that's beside the point - lol.

I had a Seafoam Green T-62 and sold it - D'OH!! (didn't put it on my list because I already had one)

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In my current, financial straits, I should have no problem with this kind of commitment. If, on the other hand, Lotto smiles on me...I'd fall off the wagon in a big way. Any future surrender to GAS should be predicated on that very if.

You mean like this? Yeah, maybe something a little bit like that That guitar is definitely drool worthy

"Inconceivable"..... Let me put it this way... Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Morons! I do not think that word means what you think it means.

"Inconceivable".....

Dude - seriously? So if that was yours and you let it get away, you should be banned from the forum - blasphemous! No, it was never mine. It was on eBay years ago. I didn't go after it because i was leery of the switch placement and the nasty gold hardware. Don't remember exactly what it went for, but I remember feeling it was peanuts relatively-speaking, so it definitely could have been mine. Still, if I bought it I would have sold it eventually anyway, so I guess I just skipped to the end - Austin

This is unamerican. Bad for the economy! ;-)

1. Zandard 2. Zandard 3. Zandard

I can't do it, partially because I enjoy buying and selling so much, but mostly because I have no intention of trying.

I'm out. Got Sunburst GAS.

Explain to me WTF that has to do with anything! No wonder the economy is in the crapper... People trying to get by on what they NEED will cripple us as a nation. Lockbody, why do you hate your country?

I'm officially not in. With all you guys out of play it is too attractive to gobble up some deals. I will buy a Strat or a Tele so i'm out.

Too many fish in the sea. & I love to fish

I vote that such a thing be allowed. Wouldn't want the likes of Stike or murkat to be deprived of business due to this idiocy.

It's not incentive for the Hamer Fan Club, either - lol! Imagine the board traffic after the rush of threads about how we're not buying or selling guitars. The silence would be deafening.

The premise of this thread ain't exactly incentive for Hamer to re-enter the marketplace. Just sayin' lol.

Yes - there is video series where he talks about the rig he used, and plays the exact guitar through the exact amp: http://www.mr335.tv/index.html?channel=steely&videofile=mr335/steely/steelyrig