^ I'd love to see/hear that! I was originally in the market for a nice Princeton, but I couldn't find any locally.
What's up bro? Anything else that's keeping you busy? I recently had the chance to get up close and personal with a '51 valco spectator, thought it was a cool amp! Can't ask for more mojo than that.
Post some of your fender restorations naman!
@ Teleclem and Siore:
I'm out of the country mga bro and the princeton reverb is with me.
I've never seen another one in Philmusic since I joined PM a few years ago. Bart has a Li'l King Reverb which is a very nice boutique clone of the princeton reverb.
You have probably seen this amp when this was advertised for sale here. It went to vegetablejoe for a time and then it was again sold by deltaslim for the second time and that is when I got it.
It is working pretty well but the physical condition is poor. I cleaned it up a bit, put in a new Accutronics reverb tank kasi yung nakalagay mahina ang reverb, hindi yata exact replacement model. The reverb is working fine now. I also replaced the knobs and chassis straps with new original replacements.
I plan to restore this to original schematic and try to see if that is preferable over the PaulC mod done to it when owned by deltaslim.
I've got a very clean early 70s original cabinet for it (now in Manila). I also got an original fender output transformer to replace the non-original one on it now.
This is costing me more than it would to buy a similar model on Ebay but it is still worth it for me. It is satisfying to restore a vintage amp.
I like the Youtube demos of the Valco Spectator. IIRC si Filippo yata or si Musicjunkie meron nyan.
May offers nga for my Jester Oahu
but I'm keeping this one as long as I can afford to keep it. These circuits are as basic as can be and dahil yata dyan kaya mas raw ang tone.
These are deltaslim's pics (I hope he won't mind
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This is the very nice and very clean original fender cabinet I got from Ebay. This is complete including original speaker, reverb tank and cables, only the amp chassis is missing.
This is the original Fender output transformer I also got from Ebay.