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Re: Black grille cloth on blackface Showman amps?

reventlos - 05 Dec 2005 16:58:13

Another clue is the staples themselves. All the '60's stuff I've seen
use fairly large black staples. Re-grilled cab's invariably have the
more modern skinnier silver ones (not to mention that the cloth never
seems as straight as Fender got it---would love to know exactly how
they did it).
Matt Q
> Has anyone noticed that some blackface Showman heads (so roughly '64'-
> '67) have black grille cloth on the front rather than the customary
> silver sparkle? For example, there's a Showman head on eBay (the
> auction ended on Saturday) like that:

See this post in context.