Clark Beaufort Special 5E3 Tweed Deluxe Boutique Tube Amp 1x12 Celestion Blue

Up for sale, a Clark Beaufort Special 1x12 boutique tube combo amplifier in excellent condition and in perfect working order. This finely crafted version of Fender's famed 5E3 Tweed Deluxe is true to the original circuit down to the smallest details. And this isn't your ordinary, run of the mill 5E3 copy. No expense was spared in attention to detail and component quality, and the Clark Beaufort captures the nuance, complexity, and sweet musical quality that this circuit is capable of delivering. Fitted with an upgraded Celestion Blue speaker, the tone has the chime, rich breakup, and touch-sensitive qualities for which this premium alnico magnet speaker is known. Tone simply doesn't get more pure or instinctive than with a lovingly-made 5E3 circuit, and Clark has absolutely nailed the unique combination of materials and specs that has made the Deluxe so enduringly popular.Features include:-Normal and Bright channels with common tone control-Voltage corrected power and custom wound output transformer. No harsh high voltages-Clark's custom wound interleaved windings output transformer. Superb deep piano string bottom, with high end extension to give it that classic 5E3 acoustic quality-Tube complement is one 5Y3 rectifier, two 6V6 JJ power tubes, one 12AX7 and one 12AY7 in the preamp-All Allen Bradley carbon composition resistors-SoZo capacitors, these caps really nail the tone of the original Astrons-Sprague electrolytics-Original solid 22g cloth covered wire-NOS tube sockets Mil SpecCosmetically, this amp is very clean, with a cabinet made of solid pine and Finnish birch, finished in the proper diagonal tweed and ambered nitro lacquer. The chrome plating on the faceplate has plenty of shine, with clean white silkscreen lettering. There's one glued tear in the tweed on the lower left edge, a tiny amount of corner wear, and light staining on the oxblood grillcloth.