This is actually a belated NAD. About a month and a half late.
I bought for next to nothing, a 1968 all tube head, point to point handwired. It's a Lifco model 1000. Electrically it's a clone of the early Traynor yba-1 Bass Master, which makes it a close cousin of the 5F6A '59 Fender Bassman and the Marshall JTM45. It's currently running the original RCA 7027A power tubes and has two of the original made in canada 12ax7's in the preamp alongside a groove tubes 12ax7.
You can probably tell where i'm going with this...
Mods up the wazoo.
Adding in a few mods to take it back to full bassman/jtm specs, ability to use and bias up different power tubes, as well as some other nonsense for my own pleasure like extra gain stages and voicing options in the tone stack and NFB circuits.
Guts
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Giant transformers
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RCA toobz
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I bought for next to nothing, a 1968 all tube head, point to point handwired. It's a Lifco model 1000. Electrically it's a clone of the early Traynor yba-1 Bass Master, which makes it a close cousin of the 5F6A '59 Fender Bassman and the Marshall JTM45. It's currently running the original RCA 7027A power tubes and has two of the original made in canada 12ax7's in the preamp alongside a groove tubes 12ax7.
You can probably tell where i'm going with this...
Mods up the wazoo.
Adding in a few mods to take it back to full bassman/jtm specs, ability to use and bias up different power tubes, as well as some other nonsense for my own pleasure like extra gain stages and voicing options in the tone stack and NFB circuits.
Guts
Giant transformers
RCA toobz