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May 8, 2013 at 4:45 am #4818
ive never seen anything like this before
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May 8, 2013 at 9:14 am #10674
I remember those guitar amp combos when I was young, many years back in Fresno, Ca. Also Sears/Silvertone used to sell all kinds of amps that were tube powered also. They had this piggy-back amp head and cabnet that had a storage space in the cabnet for the amp head to be stored in. The amp head and cabnet had one cord, not the standard jack to plug into the head and cabnet. Those were the days. I heard that Danelectro??? made the guitars and amps for Sears. Not sure. Also Montgomery Ward sold guitars and banjos that were made by Recording King. Not sure, there used to be all kinds of cool gear at these two stores.
Thank you for a great post. You know what…………………That is a good deal.
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May 8, 2013 at 10:49 am #10675
the house where i am working this week has an ols sears amp setting by the door, its a head and cabinet and it says sears on it thr front of the head all it has are slide controlls
im not sure how old it is i think it says sears and roebucks
maybe ill try to get a picture of it. i believe my customer said his son use to play bass but he has some 6 strings upstairs also -
May 8, 2013 at 1:15 pm #10676
Dan Electro made guitars for a number of outlets and had no direct marketing of thier own. These were cheap plywood or composite board with arborite or maybe resoglass tops. Typical cheese cutter action for the budget guitars of the day.. They can be set up to play quite well but the new versions are much better.
They became famous for the “lipstick tube” pickups that had a unique sound and were often removed and put on other guitars. Tele’s were one of the most commen for many peoples remodeling ideas.
Jimmy page made them more popular with his use of them, mostly for recording, not so much for live use.The amp in a case idea was used by a few manufactures as well. The most interesting thing is that they are very low output amps, some under 1 watt.
They can be used to feed another amp directly, put a phone plug on the speaker wires and your set.
This is often a little noisy but you can get some nice distortion from the case amp and hit the front end of the amp hard enough to get it to breakup as well. Dime it (turn everthing up to 10) and you get the output stage to overload as well and probably some speaker distortion too. (if not absolute meltdown 🙂 )This “small amp into a larger amp” was the basis for Garnet Amplifiers “Herzog” which Randy Bachman used in the Guess Who. Think of the sustain sound in American Woman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ry30gRy3O4
The one in your picture looks to be in remarkable shape. A nice collecters item.
Gordo
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May 8, 2013 at 4:23 pm #10677
i see on the amp it says 25 watts 22 amps
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May 8, 2013 at 7:45 pm #10678
That is the current to run the amp not the output. Its also .22 amp (Point 22) 🙂
the 50C5 power tube will give 1-2 watt MAX. If this has no transformer it will be chassis hot and possibly very dangerous to use. It likely an old ham radio design.Gordo
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May 10, 2013 at 2:44 am #10690
That’s a cool find Butch. I guess it’s a good thing you’re not a collector of relics, or that would be in your studio for keeps sake.
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May 11, 2013 at 12:37 am #10705
Ive just never seen an amp in the hard shell case. i would guess it would be great for the street performers
i was just looking throught craigs list because god knows i dont have enough guitars now and happened on to it
i said HMMMM thats different, i think all the guys back at the site should see this one , and with the help of modern technology there ya go
really the only part of the whole thing i think is bitchin is the head stock. i think thats cool that they put all the tuners on one side lol
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