Members homestar_kevin Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 I'm tempted to. that is about an hour away from my house give or take 15 minutes, just to put the distance in some perspective. http://baltimore.craigslist.org/msg/496389027.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MathiasWilliam Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Noise... Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 Why would you? There's absolutely no info on it, and it's an hour away. $100+Gas for a no-name amp that you know nothing about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tietjen Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members english_bob Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 I dunno. It's cheapish, but I don't recognise the brand, and there's no guarantee that it doesn't suck. If you can spare the money and the time, why not? It might be your "secret weapon", or at least you might get some vintage tubes with some mileage in them and a brand name speaker you can eBay... or it might suck, have no "scrap value" and cost you petrol money. That's less of a "what if..." All in all, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members homestar_kevin Posted December 2, 2007 Author Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 I don't know man, he's posted before and had a brand on there so I don't know if that was legit or not. I don't know why I want it. ahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members comfortablynumb Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 You should learn the ways of the question mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members L6Sguy Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 i'd at least find out what kind of tubes are in there before planning a trip. OTOH, there wasnt a whole lot of reinventing the wheel back then, most rigs were slight variations on the usual schematic themes of the day = good things. also keep in mind that store branding/etc was quite common back then, a non-known name doesnt really mean too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members homestar_kevin Posted December 2, 2007 Author Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 You should learn the ways of the question mark. you should get an avatar back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Keith SIO Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 buy your f'ing strat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NoirAbattoir Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 i'd at least find out what kind of tubes are in there before planning a trip. QUOTE] Yeah, if it's got tubes that are easily found today I would hit that hard. Those old amps are usually sleepers. Especially if he had a tech give it the once over. It's probably got some miles left, and low wattage amps are killer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members comfortablynumb Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 you should get an avatar back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DADGADammit Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 if it was near me, i'd definitely go over there and test it out, look what type of tubes it uses. could be an awesome amp. old silvertone sears brand one possibly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mad Hatter Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 No. I've had people give me stuff like that and it will die in a few hours/days of use, it will be a major pain in the ass to fix it because the components are all weird crap you can't find any more, the speaker will suck, it will just suck, it will make you suck playing through it, and you will have wasted $100+gas money plus a couple hours of your life you can't get back. But you can give it a try if you must, maybe this one will kick ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members L6Sguy Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 unbranded amps = always die within a few hours of purchase, even if said amp is still operable after 40+ yrs, prior to purchase. check the schematics, you'll see that its wired that way, and theres no way to mod it to not be so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mad Hatter Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 Ok you are joking with me but I am serious, I've had quite a few odd ball junk stuff like that, and they all really did die in relatively no time, then I took it to a tech and he is like wtf, I can't fix this, or he is like it is going to cost $40billion dollars for NOS parts, and so I figured out why they were given to me for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members homestar_kevin Posted December 3, 2007 Author Members Share Posted December 3, 2007 Ok so after I emailed the guy I found out that the tubes it uses are:12AX7, 6V6 and 5Y3 and the badge over the speaker says Gene Leis, who was a guitar player of some sort? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members L6Sguy Posted December 3, 2007 Members Share Posted December 3, 2007 right off the top of my head, i can think of one amp that uses that config: tweed champ. another: blackface and silverface champ chances are, the purveyors of this amp werent out to re-invent the wheel. think about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members squareking Posted December 3, 2007 Members Share Posted December 3, 2007 erksin to thread It's been checked out and L6Sguy is right...could be a nice lil tweedy thing. Might be worth a trip. If you hate it, I'll buy it from you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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