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Post by will on Mar 29, 2011 20:09:26 GMT -5
The usual is to go big, bad, loud, etc. I can do that, but the latest noisemaker is really little.  The speaker is getting reconed this week. I expect to have it back in the next couple of weeks with new resistors, capacitors, etc. It was a mess. The photo is after a couple hours of taking it apart, clearing out dead spiders, etc. Having to wait to find out what it sounds like is pretty tough. |
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Post by jesus on Mar 30, 2011 10:43:52 GMT -5
That thing is ridiculously cool. Looking forward to hearing what it sounds like.
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Post by will on Mar 30, 2011 18:26:12 GMT -5
It is being reconed now. That will take a couple of weeks, unfortunately. One piece of information I got is the speaker is date coded to 1948, so the amp was probably made in 1948 or 1949 at the latest. Gibson stopped making them in this kind of case in 1950, so it's a little unusual, but they made something like 2600 of them, so it's not some kind of holy grail collectors item. Making it a perfect little amp to haul around and play with.
I'm told it has about 10 watts of output and the field coil speaker is fairly efficient. Meaning it will be a whole lot louder than it could be and it will take a fair amount of driving before it breaks up much. It sure sounded great in a thoroughly ragged way when I played through it with a torn speaker cone and the death cord. It won't be as gritty, but it won't be a shock hazard when it gets finished. I don't know what to expect it to sound like.
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Post by jeromeoneil on Mar 31, 2011 17:16:19 GMT -5
If it's that old, it's old school tube goodness, which means it's gonna be louder than you might expect. The loudest amp in our entire setup is a little 12W Kustom tube amp. It's obnoxiously loud, and has a phenomenal clean tone for blues.
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Post by will on Mar 31, 2011 18:03:57 GMT -5
If it's that old, it's old school tube goodness, which means it's gonna be louder than you might expect. The loudest amp in our entire setup is a little 12W Kustom tube amp. It's obnoxiously loud, and has a phenomenal clean tone for blues. That's probably pretty close to what this will sound like, but it predates any Kustom by a whole lot. The speaker is eight whole inches in diameter. Gibson sold these as part of a set with a lap steel guitar, but the amps and lap steel guitars seem to have parted ways most of the time. That's fine with me, since I don't have much interest in owning a lap steel guitar, but this little amp is pretty great, if it works like it could. It only has a volume knob. That's all the controls it has, and it's all I need. I might have to put P90s on the guitar just because. |
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Post by jeromeoneil on Mar 31, 2011 19:08:47 GMT -5
American Music in Bellevue has both a vintage lap steel and a similar amp up on a shelf. The guy says "I don't know if I'll ever fix it, it's just cool to have." I don't think it's that old, but it's there. It's purple. Since SWIT owes me a guitar (she lost the bet) I may make that my prize.
Sweet!
-J
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Post by jesus on Apr 1, 2011 8:36:18 GMT -5
I would definitely make that your prize!
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Post by jeromeoneil on Apr 1, 2011 12:29:24 GMT -5
I think I definitely will. A uke and a lap steel within a month. I love oligarchy!
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