Fender amp baffles

GuitarJonz · November 26th, 2003, 09:01 PM

Anyone know what year fender changed from the screw-in speaker baffles to the non-removeable glued-in baffles?

zook · November 26th, 2003, 09:16 PM

I'm going to take an educated guess and say 1970. The 68 and 69 silverface amps were in the same style cabs as the BF amps. In 1970 they dumped the aluminum channel edgeing on the baffle and narrowed the Pro Reverbs cabinets.

Are you familiar with this page?

http://www.ampwares.com/ffg/index.html

Winnie Thomas

www.frd.cc/winamp

Ringo · November 27th, 2003, 11:48 AM

It varies, some of the early SF amps still had floating baffleboards, I had a post 68 non master SF Twin that did.
But by mid 70's most if not all had the glued in baffle.
Tonally I don't personally think it makes much difference -but the older cabs seem to be ligher andof course its much easier to mod the amp with different speaker configurations etc with the seperate baffle.

tjalla · November 27th, 2003, 01:35 PM

Good ta see you on the board...

Your homepage in your signature is wrong tho

Dropping 6V6s into the Lizzie tomorrow, just got the Copper Cap from Ted Weber... fingers crossed.

Trev

zook · November 27th, 2003, 08:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tjalla

Good ta see you on the board...

Your homepage in your signature is wrong tho

Dropping 6V6s into the Lizzie tomorrow, just got the Copper Cap from Ted Weber... fingers crossed.

Trev

Trevor,

Rob gave me the heads up too. I think It's correct now.

Let me know how the copper cap works for dropping the voltage. The fellow that bought the one oin Rob's cabinet is interested in the possibility too.

I've been using a smaller PT and havomng very good results. It can take both 6V6 and 6L6 andis still plenty loud.

My Blue Lizzie is set up that way. It's the one I got back from Singapore because your current and the reverb circuit were incompatible. It works fine here. I've been using it for a long time.

Winnie

www.rfd.cc/winamp

da dougster · November 28th, 2003, 12:00 AM

With the Twin Reverb's it was '72 when you first see the CTS/Utah/whatever speakers with JBL style offset speaker mounting holes. Also the same time of the 100Watt/ Master Volume change.....

November 26th, 2003, 09:01 PM	#1 (permalink)
GuitarJonz Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Central Mass. Posts: 2,716 7 Photos	Fender amp baffles Anyone know what year fender changed from the screw-in speaker baffles to the non-removeable glued-in baffles?

November 26th, 2003, 09:16 PM	#2 (permalink)
zook Tele-Holic Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northeast Kingdom, Vermont Posts: 801	Changed Baffles I'm going to take an educated guess and say 1970. The 68 and 69 silverface amps were in the same style cabs as the BF amps. In 1970 they dumped the aluminum channel edgeing on the baffle and narrowed the Pro Reverbs cabinets. Are you familiar with this page? http://www.ampwares.com/ffg/index.html Winnie Thomas www.frd.cc/winamp

November 27th, 2003, 11:48 AM	#3 (permalink)
Ringo Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Memphis TN Posts: 1,911	glued in baffles It varies, some of the early SF amps still had floating baffleboards, I had a post 68 non master SF Twin that did. But by mid 70's most if not all had the glued in baffle. Tonally I don't personally think it makes much difference -but the older cabs seem to be ligher andof course its much easier to mod the amp with different speaker configurations etc with the seperate baffle.

November 27th, 2003, 01:35 PM	#4 (permalink)
tjalla Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Perth, Western Australia Posts: 1,826 7 Photos	Heads up Winnie! Good ta see you on the board... Your homepage in your signature is wrong tho Dropping 6V6s into the Lizzie tomorrow, just got the Copper Cap from Ted Weber... fingers crossed. Trev

November 28th, 2003, 12:00 AM	#6 (permalink)
da dougster Tele-Meister Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Beautiful downtown Ayuh Posts: 300	With the Twin Reverb's it was '72 when you first see the CTS/Utah/whatever speakers with JBL style offset speaker mounting holes. Also the same time of the 100Watt/ Master Volume change..... __________________ "Somebody set up us the bomb!!"