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N0_Camping4U
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Link Posted on Oct 13 2024 10:05 PM

https://reverb.com/item/84881194-1961-fender-showman-blonde?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=84881194

As always, no affiliation.

Seems a tad expensive - but it's relatively all original. Especially the transformer which is almost always replaced.

Hope someone scoops it up. If it was 1,000 cheaper I'd buy it to match my own head!

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N0_Camping4U
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Link Posted on Oct 19 2024 09:11 PM

Just adding. If this is indeed a 61 then it may be the rarer 6G14 NON 'A' circuitry. Which is what Dick Dale had.

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Link Posted on Oct 21 2024 06:40 PM

Hmm...I wonder what makes you think it's a 6G14 when the tube chart says 6G14 A (the A in pen)?
If the tube chart said just 6G14 and it was a 1960 (not 1961), I would have said it's more plausible.
As mentioned before in another thread, it seems not very many of the "non A" variant were made before they were switched.
As to what Dick Dale had, not sure, he had a lot of amps over the years, many of them with wheat grill cloth (so if original, definitely 6G14-A). I am certainly not an expert on Dick Dale's gear, though.

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Link Posted on Oct 22 2024 06:46 AM

Dick's "number one" was a 6G14-A that was originally 8 ohm but had a 4 ohm Twin OT installed.

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