Need help identifying amp
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Hi. I have a vintage amp of some kind. The amp is black. It looks to have a couple of tubes. It’s got a few knobs but no labels on the front face, which is a metallic color. The amp emits no sound (might be because it has no speakers). Does anybody know what make, model, and year this amp is and how valuable it is? I’ll take $600 shipped as-is. Sorry no pix. Cash or wire transfer only.
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> Hi. I have a vintage amp of some kind. > The amp is black. It looks to have a couple of tubes. It’s got a few > knobs but no labels on the front face, which is a metallic color. The > amp emits no sound (might be because it has no speakers). > Does anybody know what make, model, and year this amp is and how > valuable it is? I’ll take $600 shipped as-is. Sorry no pix. Cash or > wire transfer only.
Lol. Surely you jest?
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Wait! Let me in on this. I have a, er, vintage guitar, and it has SIX STRINGS! WITH TUNERS! it has some little metal strips across the neck, a couple of electrical things on the body, and the holes in the plastic part on top of the body, fits the ELECTRICAL THINGS perfectly! it has some knobs that do something and fits in a box that fits it exactly! They don’t make’um like this anymore, folks! I’ll take, lets see, $950 cash. thats right, hard to beleive, but I will let it go for that! Please, serious inquires only!
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Hi. I have a vintage amp of some kind. > The amp is black. It looks to have a couple of tubes. It’s got a few > knobs but no labels on the front face, which is a metallic color. The > amp emits no sound (might be because it has no speakers). > Does anybody know what make, model, and year this amp is and how > valuable it is? I’ll take $600 shipped as-is. Sorry no pix. Cash or > wire transfer only. > Lol. Surely you jest?
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> Hi. I have a vintage amp of some kind. > The amp is black. It looks to have a couple of tubes. It’s got a few > knobs but no labels on the front face, which is a metallic color. The > amp emits no sound (might be because it has no speakers). > Does anybody know what make, model, and year this amp is and how > valuable it is? I’ll take $600 shipped as-is. Sorry no pix. Cash or > wire transfer only.
It’s a 1974 Silver face Fender Twin Reverb and is worth $900. -David
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> Hi. I have a vintage amp of some kind. > The amp is black. It looks to have a couple of tubes. It’s got a few > knobs but no labels on the front face, which is a metallic color. The > amp emits no sound (might be because it has no speakers). > Does anybody know what make, model, and year this amp is and how > valuable it is? I’ll take $600 shipped as-is. Sorry no pix. Cash or > wire transfer only.
I already sent you the money via PayPalIraq and my money has been tied up for over two hours! If you don’t ship the amp by overnight insured confirmed courier immediately I’m going to post about what a wretched sales hack stalker you are in this group and a couple of others forever!
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> > Hi. I have a vintage amp of some kind. > The amp is black. It looks to have a couple of tubes. It’s got a few > knobs but no labels on the front face, which is a metallic color. The > amp emits no sound (might be because it has no speakers). > Does anybody know what make, model, and year this amp is and how > valuable it is? I’ll take $600 shipped as-is. Sorry no pix. Cash or > wire transfer only. > It’s a 1974 Silver face Fender Twin Reverb and is worth $900.
Ah, thank-you. I knew somebody here would know! One last question, did Fender amps have a label on the back saying "Wizzlebutt Amps"? – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> -David
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Hi. I have a vintage amp of some kind. > The amp is black. It looks to have a couple of tubes. It’s got a few > knobs but no labels on the front face, which is a metallic color. The > amp emits no sound (might be because it has no speakers). > Does anybody know what make, model, and year this amp is and how > valuable it is? I’ll take $600 shipped as-is. Sorry no pix. Cash or > wire transfer only. > I already sent you the money via PayPalIraq and my money has been tied up > for over two hours! If you don’t ship the amp by overnight insured > confirmed courier immediately I’m going to post about what a wretched sales > hack stalker you are in this group and a couple of others forever!
I never received that payment. If I don’t see it by the end of the day, I will post that you are deadbeat buyer.
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>> I already sent you the money via PayPalIraq and my money has been tied >> up > for over two hours! If you don’t ship the amp by overnight insured > confirmed courier immediately I’m going to post about what a wretched > sales > hack stalker you are in this group and a couple of others forever! > I never received that payment. If I don’t see it by the end of the day, > I will post that you are deadbeat buyer.
I sent the money (I’m rich because I got millions from this guy in Nigeria who needed to move it out of the country quietly) and I’m not going to look for the receipt now because I’m a country squire enjoying a couple of bottles of claret, Chateau Sydney if you must know, one of Australia’s finest fighting wines. And don’t bother sending your bullyboy squad here to stick up for you because I’m not intimidated by being kicked in the goolies. Now where is my amp, I’m an accomplished composer with some brilliant seal-bark music that I need to record and post to Will_never_be_heard.org so the world can appreciate my genius!
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> Hi. I have a vintage amp of some kind. > The amp is black. It looks to have a couple of tubes. It’s got a few > knobs but no labels on the front face, which is a metallic color. The > amp emits no sound (might be because it has no speakers).
That’s the infamous Wizzlebutt clone of the Fender SF Twin Reverb. They went out of business because (due to a minor QC fiasco) almost every amp left the factory without speakers. But they did include a nice pair of whistles that should have been shipped in cereal boxes. I’ve always wondered if somewhere in rural Idaho a lot of kids were hacked off when their Captain Foom cereal boxes had these big, heavy steel and paper things in them instead of secret decoder whistles. > Does anybody know what make, model, and year this amp is and how > valuable it is? I’ll take $600 shipped as-is. Sorry no pix. Cash or > wire transfer only.
It was produced in 1972 and 1975 (October only). The official name was the Wizzlebutt Twin Echo Monster, but because of the missing speakers it was commonly known as "The Eunuch". Seeing as there are so few left (most were destroyed in fits of rage disguised as Townsend concert endings), a good specimen is worth $400. The three remaining amps with factory speakers are worth an estimated $270,000 each, mostly because the speaker cones were reputedly made from wood salvaged from Stradivarius violins from the collection of one of Nero’s descendants (Orin the Fiddlemeister). While this amp was allegedly a clone of the SFTR, there were a few minor differences. For instance, it had only one channel, it used only two tubes, it had no reverb (the echo worked only in a large room), most of the knobs didn’t do anything, and the circuit was actually lifted directly from the Kalamazoo Model One (in the 75 model) or a modified Harmony H400A (72). It did, however, look rather like the SFTR. It weighed almost as much, too, as the chassis was made of depleted uranium (they got a deal on the black market). I hate to think what the ones with speakers weighed! -M’expert
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>> Hi. I have a vintage amp of some kind. >The official name was the Wizzlebutt Twin Echo Monster, >but because of the missing speakers it was commonly known >as "The Eunuch".
I ‘know’ I got a set up unused covers that will work with ser# BNTH76886655 and aside. Un-opened, as you know, since the amps could NOT be covered in any way shape or form. The pix of the original owner Clarence Hilliard praying in them can now only increases the value via the ebay ipod minions. Since they can not be photo-graphied, I can’t "amp-cover-pone’ them for humanity. The front cover ‘might’ be ‘cut’ or ‘ripp’ed..’, eunuch style.. Send me ya bank info..cash serious offers only… NO WANKERS !!!!! JJTj I am frolicsome, I am easy, Good tempered and free, And I don’t give a single pin my boys What the world thinks of me.
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> > Hi. I have a vintage amp of some kind. > > The amp is black. It looks to have a couple of tubes. It’s got a few > > knobs but no labels on the front face, which is a metallic color. The > > amp emits no sound (might be because it has no speakers). > > Does anybody know what make, model, and year this amp is and how > > valuable it is? I’ll take $600 shipped as-is. Sorry no pix. Cash or > > wire transfer only. > It’s a 1974 Silver face Fender Twin Reverb and is worth $900. > Ah, thank-you. I knew somebody here would know! One last question, did > Fender amps have a label on the back saying "Wizzlebutt Amps"? > -David
OH MY GOD!!! YOU HAVE A WIZZLEBUTT AMP! That’s amp was especially designed by Frank F. Wizzlebutt for Bachman Turner Overdrive in the early seventies! Don’t sell the amp…it is EXTREMELY rare! -DA
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> Does anybody know what make, model, and year this amp is and how > valuable it is?
A clever person would up some pictures up somewhere so that others could actually look at the thing.
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> Hi. I have a vintage amp of some kind. > The amp is black. It looks to have a couple of tubes. It’s got a few > knobs but no labels on the front face, which is a metallic color. The > amp emits no sound (might be because it has no speakers). > Does anybody know what make, model, and year this amp is and how > valuable it is? I’ll take $600 shipped as-is. Sorry no pix. Cash or > wire transfer only.
Hey, I used to have one of those! I traded this junkie a dime bag and a rig outside the bathroom of a gig out in the panhandle. It was stolen from me at load out from our next gig by another junkie lookin’ kid. What’s the serial number on yours? I’ll bet its the same one, and it rightfully belongs to me; because I got the junkie that I bought it from to sign a bill of sale with the serial number on it, and he swore on a stack of religious texts that it wasn’t stolen!!! In fact, he said it came from the barn of his cousin’s aunt, whose son was shipped out to ‘Nam in the late 60s, and he didn’t make it back. So it sat unused in the barn for about 35 years. When they plugged it in, it worked *perfect*! Let me know the serial number, and I’ll tell you if it matches, and where to send me the amp. Otherwise I call the Sheriff and file charges. John
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Wow, that’s weird! I got my amp from a junkie, too. Talk about coincidences! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Hi. I have a vintage amp of some kind. > The amp is black. It looks to have a couple of tubes. It’s got a few > knobs but no labels on the front face, which is a metallic color. The > amp emits no sound (might be because it has no speakers). > Does anybody know what make, model, and year this amp is and how > valuable it is? I’ll take $600 shipped as-is. Sorry no pix. Cash or > wire transfer only. > Hey, I used to have one of those! I traded this junkie > a dime bag and a rig outside the bathroom of a gig out > in the panhandle. It was stolen from me at load out from > our next gig by another junkie lookin’ kid. > What’s the serial number on yours? I’ll bet its the same > one, and it rightfully belongs to me; because I got the > junkie that I bought it from to sign a bill of sale with > the serial number on it, and he swore on a stack of religious > texts that it wasn’t stolen!!! > In fact, he said it came from the barn of his cousin’s aunt, > whose son was shipped out to ‘Nam in the late 60s, and he > didn’t make it back. So it sat unused in the barn for about > 35 years. When they plugged it in, it worked *perfect*! > Let me know the serial number, and I’ll tell you if it > matches, and where to send me the amp. Otherwise I call > the Sheriff and file charges. > John
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> > Does anybody know what make, model, and year this amp is and how > valuable it is? > A clever person would up some pictures up somewhere so that others could > actually look at the thing.
Come on, it’s black and it has knobs on it, no speakers, and perhaps even a tube. It’s got WizzleButt as a label on the back. I thnk Miles hit on the head.
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> Wait! Let me in on this. I have a, er, vintage guitar, and it has > SIX STRINGS! WITH TUNERS! it has some little metal strips across the > neck, a couple of electrical things on the body, and the holes in the > plastic part on top of the body, fits the ELECTRICAL THINGS > perfectly! it has some knobs that do something and fits in a box that > fits it exactly! They don’t make’um like this anymore, folks! I’ll > take, lets see, $950 cash. thats right, hard to beleive, but I will > let it go for that! Please, serious inquires only!
Are the strings original? What are the part numbers on them? – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->> Hi. I have a vintage amp of some kind. >> The amp is black. It looks to have a couple of tubes. It’s got a few >> knobs but no labels on the front face, which is a metallic color. >> The amp emits no sound (might be because it has no speakers). >> Does anybody know what make, model, and year this amp is and how >> valuable it is? I’ll take $600 shipped as-is. Sorry no pix. Cash or >> wire transfer only. > Lol. Surely you jest?
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