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+1 for Doctor Mobius

+1 for twotimingpete

I got three great looking New Old Stock JAN Philips tubes from Doc Morbius.

Always good to do business with him.

And I got a pair of BG Pure 90s pups from twotimingpete. Shipped fast, look great.

+1 for 6StrngStrangler

Got a nice set of Grover knockoff tuners from him and he shipped them fast, fast, fast.

Right now, my #1 goal is go have a local guy build a lacquered tweed 1x15 amp housing for my Twin II. I'll have him build it out of light-ish weight pine to keep the weight down and I have a single 15" Weber Michigan (EV clone) to go in. My goal is to knock 20lbs off the weight of the Twin II.

After that, I wouldn't mind getting either a Matchless or a Dumble clone. I have a couple amps I could part with to more than offset the cost so that would be easily do-able.

I'm pretty happy guitar-wise, but I might be buying a set of BG Pure 90s and if I do, I'll have to buy something to put them in. Probably look around for another Ibanez AX120 which is like a couple steps up from a GAX70/75. Here's my silver AX120 with 57 Classics. Maybe something like that in black or dark grey.

Practice man... I did so many pinch harmonics in the 80s that now I can get them out of acoustics. Sometimes when I'm playing stuff I used to play back then, I'll inadvertently pinch them out of muscle memory even when I don't want to.

There's no trick though I guess I'd suggest using a thicker than average pick and maybe trying a couple of the little Dunlop Jazz picks if you haven't already. Less 'extra' pick forces you to hold the pick lower.

Yep... from looking at various used ones, I'd think an hour or so just with a couple clean t-shirts would get you going in the right direction.

Hell yeah, I would have done that deal as well... or at least I would have gone to check it out.

If my defense Wyatt, I admitted that I had never played the Bassman 20 but the OP asked about how the Bassman 20 would compare to a Deluxe and I still would suggest that a most Bassman amps that I've played through - Silverface, Blackface and Reissue - have more in common tone-wise with lower gain Marshalls than they do with the 'Fender tone' we usually expect from Silverfaces and Blackfaces.

And again, I want to make it clear, I've never played a Bassman 20. For all I know, it sounds a lot more like a 'Deluxe but with less controls' than it does a typical Bassman.

I've never played either a Deluxe II or a Bassman 20, but I've played plenty of Blackface and Silverface Bassmans and Deluxes both original and reissues.

In general, the Deluxe is going to give you Blackface tone, but at reasonable volume levels compared to a Twin. The Bassman starts sounding quite a bit like a Marshall once you get it to break up.

Having said that, according to Ampwares.com, the Bassman 20 and te Deluxe II circuits looks somewhat similar. Not identical, but similar. I'd still expect the Bassman 20 to be about vintage Marshall type breakup while a Blackface, Silver or reissue Deluxe to be about clean Fendery tones, capable of breakup, rather than BEING about breakup.

Most people don't realize how similar the Bassman circuit is to earlier Marshalls. If you plug a Les Paul into a 1970 - 1985 Bassman and run almost any sort of boost in front of it, most folks would think it was a Marshall rather than a Fender.

Just throwing that out there. The Bassman is definitely a cool amp, but I doubt many folks that have played through both many times intentionally cross shop the Bassman with a Deluxe.

My advice would be this: If you play through one locally and dig it and think it will be loud enough for your purposes, go for it. They are as easy to repair as any point to point Fender. But the Rivera era stuff in general is unique unto itself among Fender. If you keep them clean, I don't feel they are a radical departure from the Blackface and Silverface amps, but they have a couple unique features. If you haven't played through a Rivera amp or a Rivera-era Fender, imagine if a Blackface had a baby with a circa 1980 Mesa Boogie.

There are folks that LOVE the actual Rivera era amps and the red knob Fenders that were actually his design, but they have more detractors than advocates.

On the other hand, you can get great deals from time to time. Silverface Twins usually go for around $600 - $900 or so and I got a perfectly functional Twin II for the equivalent of $400. That's a lot of loud Fendery goodness for $400. Maybe not quite Blackface goodness, but when's the last time you saw a $400 Blackface Twin?

I have seen two of those Bassman 20s lately and two Bassman Bantams which is kind of weird because I had never seen either of them before this year and I've been looking at Fender amps for over 25 years.

I really like both, but other than both being heavy, loud 2x12s that have been around for a long time, they aren't terribly similar.

I'm more of a Fender guy... The Twin is a fine amp, but unless I was in a surf band or a country band, I think I'd lean towards the AC30. I owned a silverface Twin and currently own a Twin II. I've never owned an AC30, but I've played through them quite a bit and I've owned two AC15s. I haven't messed with many boutique pedals, but I've never quite found a gainy tone that I really bonded with with a Twin or a Deluxe whereas with an AC15, it's very easy to dial in a little gain on the amp, then run a Marshall Guv'nor or an OCD in the front and take it from Vox chime to Marshall roar, plus the AC15/AC30 is very capable of great cleans... they just aren't quite as sparkly as the Fender.

I don't see how you could go wrong with either amp as long as you know what you're getting, but I'll vote for the AC30.

I haven't read the other responses, just the first post.

I think you were both pretty wrong. Him for seemingly taking total offense at your first cash offer and you for taking a lecturing stance.

But, it's all good. I've dealt with worse people on craigslist. Some folks have a greatly inflated idea of the value of their stuff. I've listed stuff at twice what I think I'd get for it. Usually with no success, but sometimes it works.

I kinda collect cameras and I like the Canon G series of cameras. I have a G1, G2, G3 and G7. There was a person that had a G5 listed for $300. To put it in perspective, the G7 is about 4 years newer and twice the camera the G5 is and at that time, there were about 25 completed auctions on eBay and all but one was $70 - $100 other than a single one that was $125, but it was brand new in an unopened box... For $125. This guy was asking $300. I offered $125 and told him about the eBay auctions and he said he'd throw the camera away before he'd sell it for less than $200.

I got a Teisco hand-me-down something funky with the slider pickup selectors when I was probably 8. It only had 2 strings for about a year and I got a full set when I was 9. When I was about 10 and a half, I got a Squier or a Fender strat without a pickguard that was creamy white and a black headstock. I always thought it was a Squier, but I've never seen a pic of that guitar with a Squier logo, but I've seen a few with a Fender logo.

Then when I was 13, I got a Kramer Beretta and a full setup.

Looking back the Fender/Squier was probably a fine guitar, but we didn't get a set up and of course, I was totally clueless about such things.

Another +1 to the always reliable Doctor Morbius for a couple wiring harnesses.

I need to give a couple more +1s.

+1 to voxmarshall I got a TV Jone HiLoTron from him and it was shipped very quickly and well packed.

+1 to woodyjunior I traded into a BEAUTIFUL Vox AC15H1TV. I'm in love!

+1 Markus RN

Got a very nice Weber P12NT speaker from Markus RN. Smooth deal, shipped fast, perfect condition and well packed.

If you want paper in oil caps, there's a guy that sells them for $10 per pair shipped but they'd be pretty far down my list. If I had your guitar (I had the one with HBs) saddles would be my first change, then I'd replace the pickup I played the most, then pots, then maybe the caps.

Absolutely zero contest... it would have to be a strat.

Having said that, there are plenty of lovely teles and Pauls out there, but one guitar only? It would absolutely 100% be a strat.

Well, most of the more popular Fenders have reasons for existence that are realized by many, many folks or else some of them would just die away after 40+ years, no?



The Deluxe is about achieving clean and overdriven power tube tones at somewhat reasonable levels in an easy to move package. The Princeton is about the same thing, but with less bottom end and an even smaller package. The Twin is about always staying CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN at all levels forever that isn't terribly heavy, but it IS heavy. The Bassman is about breakup and getting into Marshally territory. The Super Reverb is about combining the Deluxe and the Bassman in one package.

If you want to play Fender cleans at Muzak levels, they will all do a very, very good job. If you want it to stay fairly clean and sound just like it's cookin a bit, get the Deluxe or the Princeton. If you want to get Fender and slightly Marshally tones without using a pedal, get the Bassman or Super Reverb. The Bassman and Super Reverb certainly are capable of playing at very loud levels for sure, but at those loudest levels, the Twin is still unbelievably clean.

My take is, for playing at home, get a Deluxe or Princeton. If you don't 'get' the Deluxe, then it is lost on you and pass it over. If you want to play crazy loud with both cleans from the amp and dirt from the pedal, get the Twin. Sounds like you kinda want a Super Reverb though... so get it. I doubt you'll be disappointed.

+1 for Adam Poland

I traded him some pedals for a nice Ibanez AXS32 and it got here in record time.

+1 for outtahear

I got 4 paper in oil caps for $20 shipped. GREAT deal if you're looking for high end caps as they often cost this much EACH.

He is a very well-established forum member here, but the thread was from another forum. Not to pimp his stuff, but here's the thread:

http://www.buildyourownclone.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=20881

Definitely love him more than hate him. He seems pretty slow on the uptake for certain areas of his life and he has a tremendous ego even by rockstar standards but how any open-minded guitarist can listen to anything from VHI through OU812 and not respect the hell out of the guy as a played is beyond me.

+1 for senor-penguin

I got a Dream 180 from him for cheap cheap cheap, in perfect condition and shipped quickly.

+1 to stevemignano for some nice George L cables.

A few more good deals:

+1 deepdownfool (Some ProCo cables for cheap... shipped fast)

+1 mc_carlini (Traded pickups for pickups. His was faster shipping than on my end)

+1 papadotas (Two used Seth Lover pickups shipped fast fast!)

+1 richyirich (Got a 1 Spot power supply)

And a big +10 to ashasha for his hard work in keeping all this stuff straight!

And a +1 for Doctor Morbius as well.