Foggy Notion

I think its ki da co that your 64 has a factory installed silver faceplate FWIW. I'd probably be more ok with it if I could confirm somehow that it was factory installed. The previous owner told me that it came back from Fender with the silver faceplate, but that was the story told to him by the friend that he got the amp from. I haven't been able to find any reference that Fender ever did this to any other amps that came in for service so I have my doubts. I think it's more likely that someone swapped faceplates in order to pass off a working silverface as an older blackface amp. I haven't tried to contact Fender to ask them about it. I'm gonna do that and see what they say.

I'm not sure she even knows what all she has. She said she has a lot and is slowly going through it all, trying to figure out what she has. She's mostly been listing vintage speakers of all types in various condition. She's selling them pretty cheap too because she doesn't know how to test them, so they are all being sold untested, as is. I asked her to keep an eye out for a blackface DR faceplate cuz the guy in Thailand who makes the repros stopped responding to my emails.

I thought it would never happen, but I found a 1964 Oxford 12K5-6 speaker for my 64 DR. I've been on the verge of buying an Eminence Allesandro GA-SC64 for the past couple months, but kept holding out, hoping for a period correct 12K5-6. This one popped up on Ebay last week on a 7 day auction. I messaged the seller and agreed on a Buy It Now price and bought it. 15th week of 1964 which is perfect for an amp made in May of 64. This one has been reconed which is fine with me. I'll be making an appointment soon with the restoration dude to have the baffle built and grill cloth installed. The seller is a woman whose husband built effects pedals and owned a vintage music store. He passed away about 10 years ago, and she's starting to sell all his music stuff she's had in storage. When she shipped the speaker, she packed it with a bunch of pages from a 1997 Vintage Guitar magazine. I'll post a couple pics of some of the ads in the guitar thread just to remind y'all how much the prices have gone up on vintage guitars over the past 22 years.

I don't. I traded it a while back for that 64 Deluxe Reverb project that I've been slowly restoring. I wasn't planning on selling it. I was selling a different guitar to a guy, and we started talking. He mentioned that he had the 64 DR. I asked him what he wanted for it, and he said he would trade it for a good American Tele. That was a great guitar, and you don't see many of them around. $750-800 is still a killer deal for an American Tele with a nitro finish and great pickups.

Generally speaking, 1968 is considered the first year of silverface. The 68s have the drip edge rail around the grill. The drip edge was gone from most models in early 69. However, the earliest silverfaces were actually made in late 1967. Although they might not have shown up in music stores until 1968.

Happy birthday, Deej! I'll be on the lookout for more 69s.

What about the body color? I've never seen a Montego Black guitar in person. Is it a metallic color? If so, are the metal flakes gold? One description I read online said it has flakes that look red and green in certain lighting.

Maybe black tweed?

Yeah those don't look white. Parchment is a kinda aged white, but it's not as yellow as cream. Fender uses a witch hat style knob on their American Vintage Jazzmasters that is listed as white but definitely looks more like parchment so those could be parchment plastic parts?

What color are the ones on there now? White? I would probably want them to match the knobs, which, according to the specs on Adorama, are white.

Stick with the white. Lollar makes a Jazzmaster P90 that drops in with no modifications. https://www.lollarguitars.com/lollar-p-90-pickups/p-90-jazzmaster

That looks great, Mojo! That silverburst paint job really pops. It looks a lot brighter and more vibrant than the stock pic from Adorama you had posted earlier. And $999 for that guitar, or any new American Professional model, is a steal.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the main difference is the type of magnets used in the pickups. A Jazzmaster pickup is similar in construction to a Strat pickup. The pole pieces are the magnets with wire wrapped around them. A P90 is a single coil, but it has two bar magnets at the bottom of the pickup. The pole pieces on a P90 aren't magnets, they are screws.

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No idea why the notch is there. Regarding the pearloid bottom, I think this is what I remember reading, but I can't find the link now so don't quote me on this. And this was probably speculation as opposed to being confirmed by Fender. In 68, Fender came out with the thinline Tele which had a pearloid pickguard. It was 3-ply with pearloid on top, black in the middle and white on the bottom. The speculation is that Fender bought a bunch of this pickguard material. They used it for pearloid pickguards and then they flipped it over to make all their white pickguards. So the white guards have pearloid bottoms. The 68 and 69 Strat white guards have pearloid bottoms too. Here are some pics of a 68 Thinline that show the front and the back of the pickguard...

Those really are some beautiful guitars, Mr. Fuck. Your daddy has nice taste. I've been staring at the CAR Tele all damn day. Pretty sure that was a custom color in '68. There can't be too many of those around. If you look at the top left corner of the pickguard where it meets the side of the neck, you'll notice a little notch, like the tip of the corner is cut off. You only see that on 68 and 69 Teles. The bottom layer of the pickguard is likely pearloid.

What do you like about this watch in particular? The chronograph dials on the face? The blue accents? The metal band? And what is your price range? I don't think Seiko makes a true automatic chronograph watch that will be anywhere close in price to the watch above. If the chronograph feature is not important, there are plenty of affordable Seiko automatics I and others can recommend. If you really want a chronograph without the hassle of a battery, Seiko's Solar line has some in the $300 range, but they are not true automatic watches.

I might be wrong, but I'm thinking those drums had the wrap taken off of them. I don't recall ever seeing a Rocker kit with a natural finish. If they've had the wrap removed, they don't have much resell value.

I really like the Fender MIM reissues including the road worn series, but I personally wouldn't pay $1k for one. But that's just me. I get why some guys prefer to buy new guitars, but I tend to buy used to get more bang for my buck. You can buy a used American Vintage Reissue 52 for $1100-1300, and it will retain its value if that's a concern.

And he's out. A "benefactor" helped him come up with the $160k. https://www.tmz.com/2019/03/09/r-kelly-pays-child-support-released-jail-cook-county-drea/

This article sums up Trump's dealings with two convicted drug dealers. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-who-talks-about-executing-drug-dealers-vouched-for-two-of-them

While I've never been a big fan of the MIM Standard series, that's a good price and you won't be able to buy a Mexican Fender for that cheap much longer. When Fender discontinued the Standard series last year and replaced it with the Player series, they raised the price too. The new Players feel pretty good, but a new MIM Fender will now set you back about $675. https://reverb.com/news/fender-discontinues-mim-standard-series-replaces-with-the-player-series

It was right after Home Alone. I was talking to my GF about this yesterday. Did Jackson hang around with famous kids like Culkin and Feldman but not do sex stuff with them so they would defend him? Could a predator like Jackson have that much restraint? I don't know, but I think it's more likely that they were victims too. He also played up his shitty childhood and used it to his advantage. In the post doc interview with Oprah, Robson talked about how Jackson had started grooming him and others before he ever met them. The Peter Pan persona, the idea that he wasn't a perv, he was just a weird dude who was robbed of his childhood so it's ok that he likes to have slumber parties with kids. That was calculated on Jackson's part.

Black to match the knobs and fretboard.

If you've gone down the wormhole, you've probably already seen this, but I'll post it anyway. GCJ at the Crossroads Festival in Chicago in 2010. This was him stepping on a big stage for the first time, and doing it in front of dudes like Clapton, BB King, Jeff Beck, Ronnie Wood and Buddy Guy.