Re: Early 60's Fender Super Reverb Head



MattGator216@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Aug 8, 6:03 pm, Lord Valve <detri...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Although - what with the easy availability of "replacement"
BF-era faceplates, you won't really know if it's the real
thing until you take it apart and check date codes on
things like pots (usually, these are the most reliable,
since there's a shitload of them) caps and transformers.

If I were you, I'd let him know that you can find an *unhacked*
BF Super Reverb - one with the speakers still in it - for
around the same price that he's asking for the head.
(Well-used ones are in the $1200 - $1700 range, nice
ones are around $2.0K - 2.5K, and mint ones cost more than
you want to know. ;-)

Offer him $750. And be aware that unless it's been changed,
the output transformer in that amp is looking to see a 2-ohm
load. Run it hard into anything higher than around 4 ohms
and you'll be looking at arced sockets (or worse).

For my money, that's the best sounding guitar amp ever
built on this planet or any other. Cop it if you can.

Lord Valve
Expert

So what codes should I be looking for? I would rather not have to
take it all apart in the store, but I guess I really should.

Date codes on pots and caps look like this: 3564

That's the 35th week of 1964. Caps are much more
likely to have been replaced. Go by the *youngest*
date code you can find - an amp with half the pots
coded for the middle of '64 and the rest coded for
the last week of '64 is probably a '65.



I was going to run it through a Line 6 412s cabinet (a POS but it was
all I could afford at the time) and their website says it's 2/8 ohm
mono,

Set it for 2 ohms mono. That'll be *exactly* right.

LV

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