Blues Jr and Bill M or other Mods

[whiskeyzulu]

Anybody have any experience +/- w/ Bill M or other mods, including speaker, for a blues junior (cream board)? Thx.

[G Man]

I owned a green board BJr for a while, had all of the standard BillM mods, as well as an audio taper MV pot and a Eminence Cannabis Rex. Had really nice tone, but it suffered from a rattle I could never quite track down, and so away it went. I am guessing the newer creme boards don't have the rattle problem. And the Cannabis Rex did a great job of taming any ice pick tones the amp had.

[Brewmaster]

Make sure you get somebody who knows what they are doing since modding the board is the easy part, getting the damn thing out is the chore.

I have done a bunch of the BillM mods. I would suggest people stay with the basic mods and save your $$$. I have done speaker upgrades and one was a Cannabis Rex. The other were to G12m greenbacks The cream board Blues jrs didn't have some of the rattle issues, which was more of a cab design flaw. At least the ones I worked on didn't have a rattle issue.

You have to watch the Illinois electrolytic caps on some of those Fender boards. It seems there was a bad run a while back and I have had to swap out more than a few. The last one was a 2003 Vibroverb. Two caps were bulging and one was oozing. I now use F&T electrolytic caps in my builds and as replacements. My preference. YMMV.

[whiskeyzulu]

Right on, thanks for the input guys. I have an early cream board and no rattle issues, at least not yet . I've read about the IC caps issues, but looked mine over and they seem ok, so i'm leaving them and doing basic cream board mod + the new heyboyer OT.

I'm gonna hold off on speaker swap until the mods are done, but the cannabis rex was in my top 2 choices after reading reviews from Bjr owners. If anyone has one for sale let me know. thx.