Fender Princeton 112 Serial Numbers
Posted By admin On 17.09.19Fender Princeton 112 Serial Numbers 3,6/5 4427 reviews
The twin becomes the classic we know today. The Super Reverb, Deluxe Reverb and Vibroverb all emerge. (The Vibro Verb is the first Fender Amp with built in reverb) 1964 - Princeton Reverb, Super and Vibrasonic discontinued. 1965 - It's official as CBS takes over and Fender Musical Instruments Co. Bassman 50, Bassman 70. To help out with this I've put a SURVEY FORMup to collect date, serial number and transformer info. If you'd like to help out on this project, please fill out the form for each of the Fender tube amps you own. Completed forms will be entered into a quarterly drawing for a cool Fender amp geek prize. Thanks in advance for your help.
Fender Princeton 112 Amp Specs
On this one in the video I left the laminated butcher block maple boards exposed and didn't Formica the top of it. I just applied a couple of coats of Amber shellac to seal it for a real good neck/bridge connection to the wood. The bridge and neck is welded together. I used the newer Carter keyhead and pedal board on it. The strings are sloped from the bridge to the keyhead 1/4' just like a violin or 6 string guitar. That way it exerts more string pressure at the changer end. It's the way the changer is built with a 3/8' small axle resting on individual supports across the whole changer and those supports are all attached to a strip at the bottom that runs across the width of the changer that makes the MCI/EMCI sound. I tried putting the newer Carter changer on an EMCI welded body with butcher block maple boards and it sounded okay but lost the MCI sound and sustain. I also have the original MCI that Bud Carter built in Waco, Tx. and although it has wood necks and a wood body it makes the same sound. The secret is in the tailpiece/changer. I know of no other pedal steel built that way. If you had those little castings with fingers they made for the wood neck EMCI's you could make any brand pedal steel have that sound. I like it a whole lot better than a push pull I paid a fortune for freshly built by Bryan Adams that had 10 knee levers. It played as good as an all pull but didn't have the singing sound of my EMCI's. This is just a cellphone video but you can kinda hear the tone. It sounds 10 times better on a record.
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