Vintage Fender Vibrolux - Pt. 8 | 1 in a MILLION!!!

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

Part 9 is up! Do some final touch ups / installs, and then we run voltage through the amp.... and find some issues 😅 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpLFeXupqqejhaM

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

Tongue in cheek, but I stand by it! Finding an adequate donor amp with the exact OT with the right date code OR an already separated OT with the right date code is going to be much rarer than a dumble.

[@defectivedigital4124]

Loving the series…this has been my escape binge watch this week. So glad it came up in my queue. You are making it all look so approachable. I appreciate your methodical and relaxed style. Can’t wait to see you fire it up in the next episode.

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

Thank you!

[@brownmonkeybananayellow]

No saying you're wrong but Leo left by '65 and first silvers starting in '67 had drip edge. Cool amp!

[@svbarr]

I get it but trust me I was commenting on a certain "respect" for Silverface amps that rightly or wrongly just did not exist in the vintage world as late as 1995ish? Yeah and what amps are cool or hot can be as childish as Junior High popularity rankings. I know lots of folks swear by and use silverface amps - particularly those who like clean headroom and who use pedals for grit and distortion. Also I understand the holy grail transformer thing. I have a 59 Bassman and I bought a 61 Concert partially because they use the same rare output transformer and the cost of the entire amp wasn't that much more than the cost of that transformer IF you could fine a working one. So now I have a backup transformer...

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

Totally get it. That was also before my time / nearly 30 years ago. Nowadays blackface amps are nearly unobtanium to the average person as their value has soared into the stratosphere. Silverface amps are much more attainable, but still "cool" and vintage to anyone my age. This '67 which is really a blackface in disguise, is the first silverface I've ever owned so can't really comment on anything beyond that! Jealous of that amp lineup, wow!

[@mohamedtlass3842]

The brown concert is a fine amp itself! Lots of great songs recorded with! Part of the guitar track on if it makes you happy

[@matthewf1979]

Hey, did you catch that the Vibrolux has a silver mica treble cap in the vibrato channel? I’d steal one of those ceramics out of the silver Pro.

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

Doh, I did not! All good this video is real time so I can do that tonight 🙌

[@ScottyBrockway]

A pro is an awesome amp too. Two awesome amps!

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

That they are!

[@Ninjametal]

I have a drip edge Showman Amp with the black lines, is it a 68?

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

How late you see those specs depends on the model I believe, but it's safe to assume it's probably a 67-68 as a starting point. You will know more if you check the transformer date codes, the chassis code, and the tube chart date code.

[@svbarr]

A couple REALLY cool amps that are selling for chump change if you can find one AMPRO made an accordian/guitar amp from the late 40' to mid 50's- single 12 spkr, 25 watts maybe think tweed deluxe. Ampro made stuff for home movies but they also made this one tube combo amp. It has odd trim kinda looks like a giant toaster meets the Jetson's.KILLER amps. Also cheap as crap all tube LECTROLAB amps. Most with cheapo particle board cabs, no frills but all tube and usually Jensen speakers. They creamy breakup - almost a tweed Valco like sound.

[@mohamedtlass3842]

Or the Ampro PA heads from the 40s! Octal top cap grid preamps, multiple rectifier tubes, interstage transformer, power tube driving another pair of larger power tubes! Quite loud and punchy actually!

[@svbarr]

@@mohamedtlass3842 I've seen them I'll grab one sometime...LOVE my Ampro

[@adamstorfer415]

It was no accident. Black lines matter!

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

😂 😅

[@scottjamable]

Nice amp BTW the early 67 silverface black line amps did have drip edge and are still the black face circuit for a couple of years longer. I've had a 67 deluxe reverb and I still have my 67 Princeton reverb both have black lines and drip edge. enjoy

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

Nice! Thanks for clarifying, I was told the earliest didn't all have the drip edge but all good either way!

[@scottjamable]

@@YeatzeeGuitar yeah I don't think that is true. I think people might have taken the drip edge off if you see it like that pre-69. About halfway through the year or some point in 1967 they introduced the silverface along with the drip edge and lots of people refer to them as early 1968 amps but were indeed put out starting in later 67. They did away with drip edge after or during 1969. I'm glad they left the blackface circuit intact on most of these early models. Very cool though I love researching and trying to figure out all of the changes they made or just trying to figure out what you have. love your videos keep them coming.

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

@@scottjamable I didn't even know the black line existed a week ago! Fascinating history in these old amps

[@scottjamable]

@@YeatzeeGuitar I bought the 67 deluxe reverb from a man in his 70's. He was given the amp by the family some 30 years ago of his childhood friend who had been killed in a car accident very soon after his parents bought it for him like 16 yrs old. The family kept the kids room intact and the amp stayed in his closet with the cover on it all those years until it was given to the man I bought it from. He didn't play electric guitar much so it was in mint mint condition all original tubes not a scratch on it! the screws had never been touched anywhere on the amp. I was the first one to pull out the chassis. I sold it for 2300 like a dumb ass serveral years ago because I was scared to play it LOL... I wish I had it back total time machine find!!!!

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

@@scottjamable WOW! What a cool story, dang that's awesome.. bummer you sold it but I get that. I've got an all original nearly museum quality '59 Princeton that I'm a bit terrified of. Still very much debating whether I want to work on it and get it good to play or just leave it as a time capsule.

[@alraymond1618]

So are Pro Reverb's the same as the Vibrolux, except with 12" speakers vs. 10" ones in the Vibro?

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

The Pro Reverb also has a bigger Power Transformer I believe

[@MichaelSmith-rn1qw]

I have a blackline silverface drip-edge Bassman from 1968.

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

Rad!

[@svbarr]

LOL - I've been around a LONG time in the amp and guitar vintage world. My my how things have changed.Back in the day silverfaced amps were almost a joke. As in you could get a clean silverfaced Twin Reverb for 3-400 bucks, a silverfaced Bassman was 200, etc...The really valuable amps in the 70-80's were tweeds, blondes and brown Fenders, Blackfaces were "so-so:" To a guy like me raving about how special a post CBS silverface is is like bragging you just bought a hot rod AMC Gremlin...PREDICTION and you can take this to the bank. Someday the most hated amps in Fender history -- the first generation solid state amps that sounded thin and blew up -- some day because there are so few that weren't trashed, burned or blown up -- they WILL go up in value too.

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

😅 Well the excitement isn't about the amp itself, it's about the OT it happens to have for a project I'm working on. Keep watching the video 😉

[@chrisa3012]

Good point, I'm gonna start buying every $25 Frontman I can find 😃

[@Guitar5986]

The V2 tube w/ the blue/green print is most likely an old Sylvania 12AX7WA. Great classic tube. And for dealing with delicate parts like wires, caps, or resistors you should pick up a hemostat. Much safer than pliers when you are trying to conserve the original component. A dental pick is great too but sometimes you need to physically grab the part with something. Also, you may have an OCD disorder. I mean that in the best possible way lol

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

Like the surgical tool? That's a neat trick! And yaaaaa just maybe 🤣

[@Guitar5986]

@@YeatzeeGuitar Yep exactly the surgical tool. It can be easy to get overzealous w/ pliers but a hemostat is much more precise & gentle in how the pressure is applied. Plus they are easier to work in tight spaces.

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

@@Guitar5986 Got it! I've been using those fairly thin small little plyers, they've worked the best for me so far but aren't perfect

[@Guitar5986]

@@YeatzeeGuitar I have a pair just like that which I use all the time. They're great. But the hemostat definitely gets a lot of use as well. Especially when you're trying to pull tightly fit resistors & caps out of eyelets without damaging them. Plus you can soft lock them on a lead so you're not even worried about pressure applied. Definitely not an original idea. I saw someone in a forum recommend it & boy were they right!

[@mohamedtlass3842]

So what will happen to the poor pro reverb now? They are also nice amps…

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

My bandmate will be taking it! It's already been tested with the "new" 1966 OT out of the Vibrolux and works great, just like it did before.

[@mohamedtlass3842]

@@YeatzeeGuitar oh that’s good!

[@cpk313]

You lost me with the car grease.....

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

😂