I recently worked a deal that netted me a tweed Fender Bandmaster. The model designation for this amp is 5E7, which is the classic narrow panel 3×10 bandmaster produced form 1955 to 1960. These are cool amps. The three ten-inch speakers is interesting, and sounds punchy. Of course it is all tube with 5881 power tubes and three pre-amp tubes. And it is all point-to-point wired by hand – no printed circuit board or el-cheapo components. The ideas is to get as close to how Leo Fender was doing it back in the 50s as possible.
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Project Guitar Amp: Tweed Fender Bandmaster
Posted in Rock Gear, tagged 5E7, Band-Master, Bandmaster, fender, Fender Amp, Fender Amplifier, Fender Band-Master, Fender Bandmaster, Fender Tweed, Lacquered Tweed, Tweed Amp, Vintage Amp, Weber, Weber VST on December 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
And a fair amount of amps too. UPDATED 2/2/09
Posted in Bands, Music, Rock Gear, tagged 5E7, AC-15, AlNiCo, Ampeg, Bandmaster, Clone, Concert, fender, GA-20, Gemini, Gemini I, gibson, gretsch, JCM 900, Jensen, M-10 A, Magnatone, Marshall, Peavey, Princeton Reverb, reverb, so many amplifiers, Super Reverb, Twin Reverb, Vox, Weber on February 10, 2008 | 9 Comments »
This is the is the companion article to “Good Lord, that’s a lot of guitars.”, but with the focus on amplifiers this time. Granted, I’ve not owned as many amps as I have guitars, but there are fair amounts, as the headline indicates. Also, this article further supports my claim to total embarrassing guitar nerd-dom, so don’t be thinking that is new news to the Jeddler. Here we go basically in chronological order as best as I can remember…
