FCK’N LOVE PETH🤘🏽

Seeing yall in september for KNON. Will have a banana in my pocket.

The Bass Player has a really wonderful tone. Love the bass "chords".

I like the music

The GT LP is the business Nice amp!

Ok too stupid to comment on, peace out.

sounds good. really needs the reverb for me, or at least an effects loop or both. Most of those songs i play as well :)

Last thing I needed was encouragement to build one of these lol maybe i need to do it. This was a very interesting and in-depth walk-through. Thank you!

I just did one of these and when you solder your brass plate to chassis I had to scuff the chassis .it seemed to help .my deluxe came out nice . Peace

And you didn’t bloody play it

Very nice kit! I've heard that the pio caps sound great for the coupling caps from the phase inverter to the power tubes. They came from Russia, I think I'm going to try them in my next build.

what a cool video.

Great Info. Thank You

Thanks for this video...been taking all the D-Lab suggestions...nice of you to mention him. The brass ground plane seems to be the way to go. My Blackface Deluxe is in progress...going slowly and carefully. For the brass shim stock, I clamped it to the back of the chassis front with a strip of wood the full length...just drilled right through the brass and the wood. D-Lab recommended a stepper drill bit for the final hole drill, and that worked for me. Thanks again...

PS, what type of solder are you using? Leadfree, probably supplied by Mojotone? Leadfree solder has a higher melting point than leaded solder, and doesn't wet and flow as well as leaded solder does. It's particularly difficult to make chassis grounds with leadfree solder, especially with a marginally suitable iron that isnt hot enough. Also, shine up the brass with a scotchbright pad before trying to solder to it ---- it probably has a greasy oxide layer.

This is a pretty good tutorial, but, using a transformer mounting bolt for the bias-supply ground is *dangerous to the existence of the amplifier*. Those nuts loosen over time, from transport shock, speaker vibration, and expansion/contraction of the bolts. If that bias ground is intermittent, you can blow up output tubes in a minute and perhaps take out some transformers with it. I know Fender did that way, but it was a poor idea and it's not reliable for the long term. Either drill a hole for a dedicated grounding bolt or solder the wire directly to the chassis (this goes double for the green power cord ground wire; bolting it to the transformer isn't safe and DOES NOT MEET MODERN ELECTRICAL CODE. Mojotone should know better, and should provide a dedicated ground lug. I dont want to see anyone get hurt, nor do I want to see lawsuits from someone getting electrocuted. Also, although your soldering of components to the board looks good, and your wiring layout is generally okay, it's clear from the closeup of the brass ground plane at 41:14 that *your soldering iron is completely inadequate for making those ground connections*. I'm sorry to have to tell you this; but I've got over 50 years of soldering and repairing audio electronics under my belt, and those solder connections to the brass plate are obviously cold-soldered and unreliable. You need to buy a heavy duty, high-wattage soldering iron or gun and redo those grounds, including the bias-supply and earth ground. Good soldering directly to the chassis will make the amp safe, reliable, and low-noise.

The cabinet was probably made taller than most Fender head cabs so that it could be used for a Bandmaster Reverb as well as a regular Bandmaster. The reverb tank needs to be farther away from the transformers then it would be in a regular Fender head cabinet, otherwise you'll get hum radiating into the reverb transducers, which are electromagnetic, similarly to guitar pickups.

I just received this exact kit from mojo with the 1x12 cab. This is an excellent video and will help me with the build. Thanks for posting!

Great video! And good timing for me as I am considering building this for my first amp. I was bummed to see that it doesn't include the step by step instructions like their tweed deluxe. Maybe with the help of this video I could handle it!

I've known the folks in Rifflord for a good while now, love them and their music. The band is about to drop a new album in June, which I'm so happy for! Stay tuned, I'm sure some more live shows are coming soon enough!

COWARDS!!!!

Ya mon

Some of the greatest lyrics ever…..😊

So fucking good!!!

This is how I like it!!!!! Fat & groovy with some tasty wah-licks. Greetings from Germany

I stumbled into this video because I've been a little fascinated that beyond some Insta stories, Fender didn't really release any media related to this. They had a full-on production team on the day, so it just seemed weird to me. The blurb that I saw indicated you signed up, you weren't guaranteed entry, and there would be 51 guitars at the 51 price. I managed to get there around 11 in the morning, stood around with a group of guys that ranged from a highschool student skipping school, to a contractor who was skipping work. There were 51 gold bingo balls and something like 150 blackside bingo balls in a hopper. When they opened, they checked you in, and you spun the bingo hopper. Blackball, enjoy the free drinks, check out the guitars, Gold ball, congrats, you're a winner. I was probably 40 people back in line. A lot of people in front of me hit. The 7th person in front of me won. The six after that didn't. My turn. Gold ball. Everything after that is a little fuzzy. I went to the side and paid, they handed me an AVII neck plate, and a guitar in a case. Some guy took my picture. A lady with a video camera asked me what I thought. I was moderately dazed. The head of the product design team, and some other Fender guitar nerds were there. I got to talk to the head guy for a bit about the brass saddles. He was nice. I think a lot of people who won, bounced out kind of it'squick because its kind of hard to hang out with 2 grand in your hand. To your point about the money Fender spent, who knows what the space cost them, or what they paid bands. I imagine the booze was pretty cheap. But, they sold 51 guitars that retail for $2200 for $250. That right there is a $100k loss. The event was maybe poorly organized, and poorly promoted. But, I had an incredible afternoon, got an amazing guitar I would have struggled to justify buying, and I play it almost every single day.

Good video. Good sound.

We're at the point of total ridiculousness in the escalation of prices on vintage stuff. Dealers are just putting these things out to see if anyone is silly enough to pay crazy prices and raising the prices a grand a week. $13 grand for a Les Paul Junior? Really? I've been buying & selling guitars since the 70's and I'll be the first to admit my perspective is warped out. I went to the Dallas G Show in 1980. It's one thing to pay up for an old Strat, those are pretty rare and they have an interesting vibe. But a LP Jr? I'm just glad that in my old age, these things just don't light me up like they once did.

I’m going to the 2023 show. I’m looking for a ‘59 Les Paul reissue. 🤙🏼

Great Stuff ! 😎

They were ready to go, but Karen stopped them.

Jesus Christ….

An amazing set! Hope to catch ‘em live

hell yes i seen them play back in 2009 in austin, definitely one of the jammiest bands out there. austin legends

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Nice Eye Candy but it would be nicer for some narrative of the show instead of loud elevator rock! LOL!

Hey cool ride I gots 76 stingray yellow all muscle will trade for music gear ? Cool car for cool gear.

Can't wait to catch them at Black Magic Social Club here in H-Town this weekend! Super stoked!

Killer. Fantastic background music!

FUCK YEAH!! SO HAPPY THEY ARE BACK!! 🤘

I bought a AVII '57 Blonde finish Strat with ash body. I had to order direct from Fender and although it showed "in stock" it took three weeks to get it sent out. It does have the narrow V neck with the 7.25" radius. I don't find the strings too close where they roll off the edge on mine. But for someone used to a fatter neck it might be different. No flaws at all I can find. It is a great guitar. I'm saving up for one of the telecasters.

Speaking to my local guitar store guys, the AV2 guitars are in global short supply. I have ordered the 63 tele in sunburst and won’t get it til April 2023. I played the Crimson red 63 tele in a store and it was way better than the American Pro 2 tele and the Ultra tele.

Fender did a much better job on the previous batch of AVRI guitars from 2012-2017. These new ones aren't as detailed.

I enjoyed the guitar show, thank you!

Bro I took off of work that day and waited in the line from 8am. I was one of the ppl who won a guitar. If u really wanted to win one u just had to plan to be there early. They had 51 guitars available to win. They said all of this in the advert. It was a rwally fun event and i feel like ur experience would have been better if u actually planned to be there. There were about 300 ppl in line by time the doors opened. They made it super fair to win one based on the raffle. This is my favorite guitar and it was the only time I was able to afford a brand new fender guitar and i have been playing fenders professionally for 10 years. I met some really cool ppl and saw a lot of my colleagues who are heavy players in the scene. If u put in minimal effort u get minimal results

Cool video you make this recently ahhhhoooiooo!

My favorite guitar ever

F&@k yeah!!

another good bait-and-switch name for this group might be "Not Your Average Weed-Metal Band".

What a great video! The bands are amazing!