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  • #46
    I found this Magnatone 212 Sitting next to a dumpster at my storage facility in the 90's. It's only problem was a shorted power tube.
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    • #47
      That looks like a 57-58 Custom 260?
      "Take two placebos, works twice as well." Enzo

      "Now get off my lawn with your silicooties and boom-chucka speakers and computers masquerading as amplifiers" Justin Thomas

      "If you're not interested in opinions and the experience of others, why even start a thread?
      You can't just expect consent." Helmholtz

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      • #48
        Originally posted by John_H View Post
        I found this Magnatone 212 Sitting next to a dumpster at my storage facility in the 90's. It's only problem was a shorted power tube.
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        Great find, John! Do you still have that amp?
        "I took a photo of my ohm meter... It didn't help." Enzo 8/20/22

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        • #49
          Originally posted by The Dude View Post

          Great find, John! Do you still have that amp?
          I wish. It was one of the amps stolen from my storage a few years ago. My daughter used it a bunch for guitar when she was starting out. It took effects well and worked ok, but it was perfect for her Farfisa organ. The vibrato was really neat.

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          • #50
            I found the Super Reverb for $100. It was heavily modified. I kept some of the mods. One in particular was the conversion to a solid-state rectifier. I converted it to a 2x10 and made a new cabinet for it. It sounded amazing. My favorite amp. Unfortunately, it too was stolen. Click image for larger version

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            • #51
              Originally posted by John_H View Post
              ... My favorite amp. Unfortunately, it too was stolen...
              I hope there is a special place in Hell for people that steal amps.

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              • #52
                Originally posted by John_H View Post
                I found this Magnatone 212 Sitting next to a dumpster at my storage facility in the 90's. It's only problem was a shorted power tube.
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                My son and his wife to be inherited her grandmothers house. In the basement was one of these, it belonged to her uncle when he was a kid taking guitar lessons. He said he used it twice so its condition is like brand new, replaced the filter caps and gave it a going over. Did a mod to slow the trem down. Has one of the best vibrato/trems ever.

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                • #53
                  Originally posted by Tom Phillips View Post
                  I hope there is a special place in Hell for people that steal amps.
                  Oh yeah there is for sure. The jam room they have for them is a room full of malfunctioning Mesa Boogies. Then they are informed they have an afterlife sentence of fixing amps for heaven.
                  When the going gets weird... The weird turn pro!

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                  • #54
                    Originally posted by John_H View Post
                    I found the Super Reverb for $100. It was heavily modified. I kept some of the mods. One in particular was the conversion to a solid-state rectifier. I converted it to a 2x10 and made a new cabinet for it. It sounded amazing. My favorite amp. Unfortunately, it too was stolen. Click image for larger version

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                    Beautiful restoration, John. I imagine it sounded as good as it looks.
                    "I took a photo of my ohm meter... It didn't help." Enzo 8/20/22

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                    • #55
                      Scored a 1940ish Leslie Tallboy.
                      Guy was going to trash it.
                      No idea what I am going to do with it.
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                      • #56
                        Originally posted by Tom Phillips View Post
                        I hope there is a special place in Hell for people that steal amps.
                        Anyone that steals any artist's or tradsman's tools (plus any fisherman's gear) should be peeled and salted in public.
                        "Take two placebos, works twice as well." Enzo

                        "Now get off my lawn with your silicooties and boom-chucka speakers and computers masquerading as amplifiers" Justin Thomas

                        "If you're not interested in opinions and the experience of others, why even start a thread?
                        You can't just expect consent." Helmholtz

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                        • #57
                          Originally posted by Jazz P Bass View Post
                          Scored a 1940ish Leslie Tallboy.
                          Guy was going to trash it.
                          No idea what I am going to do with it.
                          Too big to travel with. After the electronics are cleaned up, it would be nice to build a front end for it so you can drive it from an Effects Loop on guitar amps, and park it in a studio someplace, if there's room. Nothing like real Dopler vibrato. Hopefully the speaker and horn driver are still in decent shape. My band's organ player had a Hammond D Console (old Navy church organ that weighed a ton), but also had a Leslie 122. Sounded totally great driven hard. Tried one time with JBL D130F in place of its' original 15" but lost the natural overdrive break-up of the stock 15". Put the original 15" back in.
                          Logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence

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                          • #58
                            Having heard the real thing once or twice "I" would definitely try to get it in top shape just to hear that again It'll find a home. Yours or otherwise. Something very special.
                            "Take two placebos, works twice as well." Enzo

                            "Now get off my lawn with your silicooties and boom-chucka speakers and computers masquerading as amplifiers" Justin Thomas

                            "If you're not interested in opinions and the experience of others, why even start a thread?
                            You can't just expect consent." Helmholtz

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                            • #59
                              Originally posted by Jazz P Bass View Post
                              Scored a 1940ish Leslie Tallboy.
                              Dual rectifier? I wonder what was the first amp to have that.
                              Four 6L6 to make 30W ? Field coil speaker? That is a very nice piece (except the 200 pounds part).

                              Originally posted by Enzo
                              I have a sign in my shop that says, "Never think up reasons not to check something."


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