{"product_id":"1962-fender-bandmaster-vintage-pre-cbs-tube-amp-blonde-w-1x12-tone-ring-cab-oxford-12m6","title":"1962 Fender Bandmaster Vintage Pre-CBS Tube Amp Blonde w\/ 1x12 Tone Ring Cab, Oxford 12M6","description":"Up for sale, a 1962 Fender Bandmaster in excellent condition and in perfect working order. Extremely original and complete right down to the matched pair of original \"dogbone\" handles and the head's Victoria Luggage canvas cover, this is the very first iteration of the \"Piggyback\" Bandmaster with a head\/cab configuration, decked out in original rough blonde tolex and oxblood grillcloth. What makes this early Brown Panel Bandmaster stand out from the pack is the Tone Ring 1x12 speaker cabinet, loaded with the stock Oxford 12M6 speaker. An elegant and ingenious idea (yet not cost effective for Fender), the Tone Ring design was dropped in early '62.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThis Brown Panel circuit drives two matched Tung Sol small bottle 5881 (6L6GC) power tubes for 40 powerful watts. Like the Tweed amps that preceded it, the Brown Panel circuits are dynamic and responsive, delivering Fender's hi-fi glassy clean tones. The EQ controls have a positively huge sweep, from thick and mellow to biting, twangy snap. After around 5 on the volume dial, the amp cascades into rich tube overdrive that compresses a bit and feels slightly loose and gritty in just the right way without losing too much clarity. It's the kind of natural tube overdrive that only comes from pushing a well-designed Fender circuit. The Harmonic Vibrato circuit is also a complex design only found on the top tier Brown Panel models, utilizing three tubes and creating a lush pitch shifting effect that has more in common with a Leslie or Chorus than a traditional tremolo.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThis Bandmaster's ported Tone Ring speaker cabinet is a 1x12 enclosure designed to deliver the clearest, most pure Fender tone via the Oxford speaker, and as such utilizes a dual baffle board design in which the speaker floats between the baffles, mounted to a metal \"tone ring.\" This design makes the cabinet work as a closed back, ported enclosure and you'll notice greater range of your EQ controls, ample bass response, and an overall sweeter, balanced tone that you simply can't get with any other Fender cabinet. The Oxford 12M6 speaker has been professionally reconed.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe circuit is very original and has been well-maintained and recently serviced. The full complement of original Schumacher-made transformers are intact with date codes from 1961. The preamp retains all of the famed yellow Astron and blue Ajax tone caps along with all of the original CTS and Stackpole pots. Maintenance includes new smaller electrolytic caps in the preamp, a full recap of the power supply with high quality Sprague Atoms, and fresh screen grid resistors on the power tube sockets. The power cable is the original gray two-prong, and a three-prong cable can be installed at no additional cost at the next owner's discretion. Tubes include a pair of matched small bottle Tung Sol 5881 (6L6GC) power tubes with Sovtek-branded valves in the preamp.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nCosmetically, this is an extremely well-kept example of one of Fender's rarest Pre-CBS designs, with clean and original rough blonde tolex and oxblood grillcloth. Both the head and cab feature original unbroken brown \"dogbone\" molded Fender handles too, a true rarity. The Tone Ring cab retains its original baffles, ring, and fiberglass insulation sheets, and the back panel has the distinctive vertical slats only seen on Tone Ring cabs. The tube chart is intact inside the head with an LA-prefix stamp translating to January of 1962. The faceplate and backplate are in great shape, and all of the original cream barrel knobs are present. Both flat Fender logos are original on the head and cab and all additional stock hardware is present too, with tilt-back chrome legs, leg stops, sphinx glides (feet), nickel corners, and piggyback clip bars.","brand":"Fender","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48790090645760,"sku":"52999","price":4099.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/4437\/4714\/files\/medium_761a5cd5-7485-4ea7-a628-4d992861a2de.jpg?v=1780443728","url":"https:\/\/mmguitarbar.com\/products\/1962-fender-bandmaster-vintage-pre-cbs-tube-amp-blonde-w-1x12-tone-ring-cab-oxford-12m6","provider":"Mike \u0026 Mike's Guitar Bar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}