Here's an interesting amp... and perhaps the best Blackface Fender amp I have ever heard. 1964 Fender Vibroverb 1 X 15 combo. Yes, This is the Stevie Ray Vaughan amp! I am selling this amp for less than I have into it... and it's "stupid cheap" for what it is... just over $4,000 USD... even with the changes listed further down in this ad... so here's the story. I bought this amp and had my amp tech go through it... lots of messy work and cheap replacement components. So I had the amp cleaned up and restored - with the best vintage style caps and resistors, etc. The PT was wrong and replaced, and we installed the correct Hammond replacement. The cost of this extensive work was $900. The baffle was wrong, so I had a plywood baffle made with an aged, correct grill cloth. The "aged" cloth I purchased still didn't look quite right and dark enough, so I did the research and further aged it until it looked the part. The speaker is an old re-coned JBL. Pretty much what would have originally been in there, but a replacement... it sounds fantastic and I would never change it! So what's with the "Joe Walsh Barnstorm" thing? As far as I can tell, Joe Walsh toured (and perhaps recorded) with this amp in the early 70s. My tech sent a picture of the amp to Joe on Facebook and Joe "liked" it. That's all I know! As you can see, I had a padded cover made. There's an old footswitch included - plus all the detailed info on the work just done by my amp tech. The amp weighs 56lbs... so not a feather, but not a boat anchor either. I would ship... but at your expense and risk. Thanks for looking! EMT hugh@realtyguy.com
bluehugh2
1964 Fender Vibroverb 1 X 15 ... Real Deal... Joe Walsh Owned… trades
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Here's an interesting amp... and perhaps the best Blackface Fender amp I have ever heard. 1964 Fender Vibroverb 1 X 15 combo. Yes, This is the Stevie Ray Vaughan amp! I am selling this amp for less than I have into it... and it's "stupid cheap" for what it is... just over $4,000 USD... even with the changes listed further down in this ad... so here's the story. I bought this amp and had my amp tech go through it... lots of messy work and cheap replacement components. So I had the amp cleaned up and restored - with the best vintage style caps and resistors, etc. The PT was wrong and replaced, and we installed the correct Hammond replacement. The cost of this extensive work was $900. The baffle was wrong, so I had a plywood baffle made with an aged, correct grill cloth. The "aged" cloth I purchased still didn't look quite right and dark enough, so I did the research and further aged it until it looked the part. The speaker is an old re-coned JBL. Pretty much what would have originally been in there, but a replacement... it sounds fantastic and I would never change it! So what's with the "Joe Walsh Barnstorm" thing? As far as I can tell, Joe Walsh toured (and perhaps recorded) with this amp in the early 70s. My tech sent a picture of the amp to Joe on Facebook and Joe "liked" it. That's all I know! As you can see, I had a padded cover made. There's an old footswitch included - plus all the detailed info on the work just done by my amp tech. The amp weighs 56lbs... so not a feather, but not a boat anchor either. I would ship... but at your expense and risk. Thanks for looking! EMT hugh@realtyguy.com
I might be open to a partial trade or even a 100% trade - provided, of course, that I can run it by Joe and get his “two thumbs up”. Guitars preferred… Fender Relics… whatever…
Here’s a pic of the “aged” black/silver 60s grill cloth both before and after I aged it…
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Here’s a pic of the “aged” black/silver 60s grill cloth both before and after I aged it…
You’re nothing if not detail oriented, Hugh ….it would be cool to hear what mojo that JBL 15” imparts to the amp’s tone. 👍 GLWS!
I agree, it would be cool to hear what mojo that JBL 15” imparts to the original Vibroverb’s tone. Maybe I'll do just that. And compare it to the mojo that 2x10" speakers impart to the other original Vibroverb’s tone. A Vibroverb get-together of sorts. Yeah, that sounds like a bit of fun.
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