Boogie lovers dept.

Come on then, i KNOW you're out there, I'll start the ball rolling with my trusty MKIIb, it's been trucked, flown and driven all over Europe, Scandinavia and the UK and all it has ever owed me is a fan unit, heavy as a power station but i LOVE this thing.
When i got it in new in '82 i know i got some gigs just because i had one !!

http://www.fotothing.com/photos/f14/f14380b487b7c6e042d4ad6365f94149.jpg?ts=1244991882

http://www.fotothing.com/photos/0c3/0c37e8296d5941da65505da8516d0a44.jpg?ts=1244992049

Yes, i DO polish it and love it !

Oh i get it ................... we are just too cool to post in these 'club' threads - :wink:

Great looking amp! no pics, but I own a 2005 Lonestar Classic, the blue model w/o Class A 5 watt mode.

Hey Big John,Not too cool ,just slow...MkII B here..... Blonde W/reverb+e.q. ,not QUITE as pretty ,it's had a hard life as well ,had it since mid 80's ,I also had to swap the fan but that is the only non routine maintanence required in all this time ,it has seen 47 states,and all of Canada ,rain ,snow,drinks thrown at it ......once it fell down a whole flight of concrete stairs (in the flight case) on the morning I was leavin for a 7 week tour and it did it's job without a grumble the whole trip,I couldn't love it any more.........unless it lost weight

I hear you Billy B.!!!

Mine also spent alooooong time touring north of the arctic circle in Norway, bad roads VERY cold, never popped a single tube. :grin:

Sweet.
I don't have pictures, but I've got a MkIV, Blue Angel, Maverick, Subway Blues, three Subway Rockets, a Quad Pre/50-50 and V-twin/20-20 setup, so I'm definitely down with Randall Smith.

tiktok, do you think you might have a problem ?, yuk yuk yuk.

Once we get a bit bigger i'm all for sneaking over to the 'Dr *' group and causing a ruckus !!

A Blue Angel fan here. It's the 2x10 combo and I've put in Jensen P10Q's. Found it used and cheap three years ago and it's still going strong. It's my #1.

My Trem-O-Verb:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y58/Lostheart/IMG_2019.jpg

One of the very firsts, factory-covered in real leather...

tiktok

Once we get a bit bigger i'm all for sneaking over to the 'Dr *' group and causing a ruckus !!



Yeah they got Brad but We got Woodie and Mick Jones and the Godfathers............I don't need no Doctor

Boogie DC-5 here. Purchased in 1997. Was the last line of Mesa amps that had the "Boogie" badge on front I think. I've gigged with it hundreds of times, and all I ever had to do was change tubes occassionally. Once the reverb cable needed replacing. And once the footswitch cable needed soldering. I'd say it has paid for itself many times over.

I got one in 1978 or maybe 77. They were just going national at the time. Even then it weighed a ton. I didn't use it well, though. I had never used master volume and I just got terrible sounds out of it. Then the EQ was something I could not keep my hands off. It wasn't be to be, but I consider the fault my own.

Hey Big John!! love your IIb!! What type of hardwood is it.....here are a few w/various views....open/closed back Boogie extension cabs cut for EVM 15Ls as well as a couple MKIIb combos with the IIc+ mods, and a compliment of MKI RIs combos and short heads, all custom cut for the EVM 15L ( cabs all short head width, standard small combo dimensions).

www.myspace.com/paulmcewen

Hey Big John!! love your IIb!! What type of hardwood is it.....


Oooh, oooh, oooh oh, i think i 've done something awkward to myself looking at them boxes !! :grin:

When i ordered the amp i specified 'hardwood' but am pretty sure back then you were not offered a choice, i don't remember being asked. Your open/closed one looks very, very similar, especially the top panel, is that koa ?

ooooh, they look nice together don't they ?

Nice amps guys.

I have a couple of Boogies.

A mid 90's Dual Rectifier rackmount and a Blue Angel head.
Very different amps- the Rackto gets the most use as it is part of my rock rig.

Oooh, oooh, oooh oh, i think i 've done something awkward to myself looking at them boxes !! :grin:

When i ordered the amp i specified 'hardwood' but am pretty sure back then you were not offered a choice, i don't remember being asked. Your open/closed one looks very, very similar, especially the top panel, is that koa ?

ooooh, they look nice together don't they ?

My Hardwoods are Walnut....four of which are select reserve, and four of which are premium select private reserve with each foresome being cut from the same plank....enabling continuous grain around the cab. Your's looks like premium select private reserve....gorgeous grain!!

Nice amps guys.

I have a couple of Boogies.

A mid 90's Dual Rectifier rackmount and a Blue Angel head.
Very different amps- the Rackto gets the most use as it is part of my rock rig.
Nice Rigs octatonic!!....I can hear them from here!!

no pics but I still keep my heartbreaker head glowing and movin the air out of a genz-benz gflex 212 cabby

Hey John...
Here's my Boogie Baby...

http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/539/Boogie_2.JPG

I guess I bought this in about '83 used.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p23/oldcane/New%20Builds/Daphne_finished010.jpg

A Blue Angel fan here. It's the 2x10 combo and I've put in Jensen P10Q's. Found it used and cheap three years ago and it's still going strong. It's my #1.

The Blue Angel is very nice. I recently sold mine to finance the purchase of another amp that more or less covers the same ground (but with a different flavor). I'd consider getting one again in the future if I could find it in the head version. I had the 4x10 combo and it weighed about 70 pounds. My back would hurt just from looking at it.

See ................ why would any sane man even think of buying any of this tweed covered, sub 10W 'boutique' pooh pooh ?


Nice looking pickguard BigMike ! :wink:

tiktok, do you think you might have a problem ?, yuk yuk yuk.

Once we get a bit bigger i'm all for sneaking over to the 'Dr *' group and causing a ruckus !!

My problem is a shortage of hardwood cabinet models. THE Boogie look in my book.

My problem is a shortage of hardwood cabinet models. THE Boogie look in my book.

In My experiences....they'll make a hardwood counterpart for any model they produce...if they can get planks to suit....all of mine are custom made to my specs...a very customizing friendly company...if you go to the top...Jim Ashow....V.P. of the company and also designed a good deal of the cabs they produce. They've always risen to any challenge presented.

In My experiences....they'll make a hardwood counterpart for any model they produce...if they can get planks to suit....all of mine are custom made to my specs...a very customizing friendly company...if you go to the top...Jim Ashow....V.P. of the company and also designed a good deal of the cabs they produce. They've always risen to any challenge presented.

I know! But even I'd have trouble being the first man with a $1200 Subway Rocket!

I keep waiting for a hw/wicker MkI or III to show up locally.

I know! But even I'd have trouble being the first man with a $1200 Subway Rocket!

I keep waiting for a hw/wicker MkI or III to show up locally.

If it's custom work....the cab alone would probably be $1200.00...if you're lucky. Private Reserve...way more!! Wicker is a $200.00 option in and of itself. The IIc+ is the model I'd be on the lookout for...I had my IIB's modded with the IIc+ conversion and they opened up considerably...and they sounded great in the first place!! Though any 60 or 100 watt MK is tops in my estimation....and the best deal going in the preowned market.

If it's custom work....the cab alone would probably be $1200.00...if you're lucky. Private Reserve...way more!! Wicker is a $200.00 option in and of itself.

I remember looking into it at the time, and it was $600 to upgrade the SR. Who knows what they're up to now.

I'm a simple man though, so something like this (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180375360441&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:Watchlink:middle:us) would do just fine.

http://i.ebayimg.com/02/!BVYNL6!Bmk~$(KGrHgoH-DcEkJw2KwwWBKSOCRZWw!~~_1.JPG

Hi all. The Boogie looks fantastic. Just as a bit of info for you. A company in Auckland NZ (i think they were Cleft Industries) were making exact replicas of Boogies calling them Rockit amps I had a Rockit superlead Mk v.) which, if memory serves is exactly the same as the Boogie. Wood cabinet, 5 band Eq. and it was fitted with a RCF 12" speaker. it also had a switch to bring in or out a additional set of tubes to go from 75W to 130W. It was so well made it was bullitproof... But i remember thinking at the time that the sound was a bit harsh. so the guy that built them replaced the 12" with a 15" (yes it did fit) and the sound was trimmed down a bit.
They were about half the price of a Boogie in NZ

Love the Boogie.

Hi all. The Boogie looks fantastic. Just as a bit of info for you. A company in Auckland NZ (i think they were Cleft Industries) were making exact replicas of Boogies calling them Rockit amps I had a Rockit superlead Mk v.) which, if memory serves is exactly the same as the Boogie. Wood cabinet, 5 band Eq. and it was fitted with a RCF 12" speaker. it also had a switch to bring in or out a additional set of tubes to go from 75W to 130W. It was so well made it was bullitproof... But i remember thinking at the time that the sound was a bit harsh. so the guy that built them replaced the 12" with a 15" (yes it did fit) and the sound was trimmed down a bit.
They were about half the price of a Boogie in NZ

Love the Boogie.

If they were exact replicas of a Boogie MK combo.... a 15" wouldn't fit....see post #13 above...the 4 hardwood "short chassis" combos pictured were custom made by Boogie 3" taller than stock to accomodate EVM 15Ls. The stock width remains and the 15" fits like a glove. Boogie did make a "long chassis" and a combo to match that accomodated a 15", but that that combo was huge with the longer 22" chassis and unliftable.

Hi Telesavant.

As far as i can remember the cahange over to the RCF 15 just required the removal of the front baffle, and the install of a baffle with a 15" hole. The speaker was lowered in the 15 (as in closer to the bottom of the cabinet as opposed to the speaker being in the middle) this was to allow clearance from the transformers and valves. The change over was done while i waited. and I would say it was about 1982-83.

Hi Telesavant.

As far as i can remember the cahange over to the RCF 15 just required the removal of the front baffle, and the install of a baffle with a 15" hole. The speaker was lowered in the 15 (as in closer to the bottom of the cabinet as opposed to the speaker being in the middle) this was to allow clearance from the transformers and valves. The change over was done while i waited. and I would say it was about 1982-83.

Hello scouse2000; The cab that fellow made HAD to be larger than an "exact replica" of a MK Boogie...as you can see the "extension cab" on the left was made to the exact dimensions of a 1-12" MK except for a straight front...but the baffle was cut to fit an EVM 15L...If anyone can see where a 100 watt MK head would fit....I'm all ears.

The combo on the right shares the exact dimensions of a 1-12" MK combo except slightly taller to accomodate the 15" speaker (stock width works fine)...and as you can see from the back shot even with the cabinet stretched....a preamp tube's cover rests on the speaker frame. The lower shot of the combo's front baffle illuminates the lower rear baffle cleat that is the same height as the 15's opening and the visable line of where the 15 rests in front.....almost touching the hardwood....and the grills were a nightmare to cut and fit....as you can see from a rear shot of the grills....the top and bottom had to be cut wafer thin to fit between the front mounted speaker frame and the hardwood cabinet....the baffles have to fit like a glove....between that speaker frame and cab....these grills sink around the speaker and rest on the baffle....wood to wood...they don't rest in front of it like other grills. There is no way that a 15 will fit in a stock dimension 1-12" Boogie MK combo.....

Most manufacturers of 1-12" combos make their cabs larger than they have to for a 12" speaker....Boogie does not....for the "short Chassis" MK series....everything was made to "just fit".

I'd love to see pics of that amp....

Pauly

............There is no way that a 15 will fit in a stock dimension 1-12" Boogie MK combo.....


Thats correct ! ...... a 13" now that would work fine ! :grin:

I believe a member here from Oz has an original MKI or II in a 15" cabinet and it stands out a mile that it is a different size.

i love my Express 5 50.

Let me in, let me in I say, I qualify !!
I have a MK III Simulclass EV Blue Stripe that I just love to bits. I recently bought a C90 loaded thiele cab. to go with it but have not gigged with the whole rig yet.

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/789954542c236ee18ee21f16249a62abe7ffbee8911e3a9f0d 7136c049a28f3fe31d02a5.jpg

I'm talking to someone right now about duplicating both cabs to look like this..
http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/767917370e2549d3b68cba6a4379f048109ed5bdc625fb166b 26b90da2761aaea2d6edbe.jpg

After decades of wanting a MK1 I finally found one that I just HAD to have.

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj251/rhinocaster/DSCN0685.jpg

This gives me HUGE tones and more power than I'll ever need.

Covered in Rhinohide too!:grin:

Let me in, let me in I say, I qualify !!
I have a MK III Simulclass EV Blue Stripe that I just love to bits.

Aaaah go on then, just as long as the next time i'm playing up there i get to use it !! :wink:

Mk IIC+ in cream tolex here. Lovely amp, but hard to move and way too loud to play anywhere :(

Aaaah go on then, just as long as the next time i'm playing up there i get to use it !! :wink:

You got it !!

Not a Mark and not hardwood, but I love it!-
http://images.lilypix.com/albums/userpics/10467/Mesa_Express.jpg

Mesa Boogie Lonestar, 100w/50w switchable, Blue tolex, YUMMY!

Pete

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc297/battleminnow/IMG_2357.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc297/battleminnow/IMG_2356.jpg

Those hardwood cabs are just superb. Stunning.

Just one question, how do you protect them when gigging? Hard flight case?

Andy

Those hardwood cabs are just superb. Stunning.

Just one question, how do you protect them when gigging? Hard flight case?

Andy
My hardwoods don't leave the house without their flight cases....which they are sitting on in post #13...a while back in this thread.

Mine have toured all through the UK and Europe lots of times in 27 years and spent a long time in Scandinavia including north of the arctic circle, a good flight case helps !!

The beauty of a quality hardwood is that if it takes a knock or two you can often polish it right out, mine got dropped on it's head out of a truck (in it's case) and the handle has dug in but at the end of the day it's an amplifier, yes i cosset it when i feel like it but thats 'me' therapy as much as it is looking after a piece of wood.

The first "Ding" is always the toughest!! My hardwood combos are all but unliftable...the cases roll like butter easing transport and are virtually indistructable.

I guess I should join this club, I have a few Mesas. I'm not right up on the exact model/mk nos...

Mesa SOB
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-7/1052255/MesaBoogieSonofBoogie_2.JPG

Mk III (???)
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-7/1052255/MesaBoogieMkIIICombo_2.JPG

Mk III with eq
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-7/1052255/MesaBoogieMkIIIEQ_2.JPG

Satellite
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-7/1052255/MesaBoogieSatellite60Combo2_1.JPG

I've only owned one Mesa Boogie and I loved it.

It was a Subway Blues. It was so simple buy sounded so great. Tube reverb, 10" speaker. Just a great amp all around. I've had a bunch of amps but I think that's the only one that I ever regret selling.

Count me in proud owner of a Triple Rec solo head and 4x12 cab loaded w Celestion V30's. No pictures sorry

Mark IIB 50watt, reverb, I Love This Amp!

I'm in, I've got a MkIIB with EQ, reverb, and the 60/100 watt switch. It's a BEAST. And it's got great tone, because it was owned by a rock star. (No, not me)

Love my Caliber.50 . I've owned it for 10yrs now, and is sounds great. It was built in 1988. I play it through the matching original 4x12 Mesa cab loaded with Black Shadow MC90's.

I just picked up a studio series, it's a .22 that just says studio series on the front with cream tolex covering. I love her.

Craig

http://i559.photobucket.com/albums/ss35/blsplyr/DSC00879.jpgHere's my 1986 SOB in cream tolex. Bought in 1988

http://http://i559.photobucket.com/albums/ss35/blsplyr/DSC00879.jpg

I did a search but didn't find one,
[Mod. edit: You probably searched "Mesa." So I've added your post here to the existing Boogie club thread.]
so here it is: The Mesa Boogie Players Club!

I've been a big fan for a long time, and have couple that I use:
'75 Mark I
'95 Tremoverb (serious go-to amp)
'00 Nomad 100 2x12 (great for recording)

No pix currently (long story (http://www.tdpri.com/forum/stratocaster-discussion-forum/173983-before-after-story-smokie.html)) but would love to see what all is hiding in studios out there on the "intertubes"!

http://i559.photobucket.com/albums/ss35/blsplyr/DSC00879.jpgHere's my 1986 SOB in cream tolex. Bought in 1988

http://http://i559.photobucket.com/albums/ss35/blsplyr/DSC00879.jpg

Man, this looks great!

Here are my Mk series Boogies:

'84 MKIIC+ Simul-Class Loaded Bubinga/Wicker Combo:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d7/Texsunburst59/000_0013.jpg

'84 MKIIC+ 60 watt Combo:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d7/Texsunburst59/000_0018.jpg

'86 MKIII Simul-Class Loaded Combo:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d7/Texsunburst59/000_0021.jpg

Hey guys. I'm the Aussie guy Big John mentioned earlier. I believe my Boogie is a very early Mk II - we bantered that around for a bit after I bought it. Blonde tolex - stock 15" JBL. Bigger cab. Anvil roadcase. Still in 110v. Sounds massive. Even though it has a 15, with the amount of tonal control available I have no problems dialling in a great tone. And, like BJ, I LIKE COUNTRY ! Regards.

I've got two, a MK I RI with hardwood cab and EVM 12L and a Studio .22+ with an Altec-Lansing 417-8H speaker. I use the Studio for 90% of my gigs. Both are great amps.

I have schematic for a set of mods from Gil Ayan (who developed the Smooth and Slim pedal) for MK I RI Boogies. The mods are simple and reversable. They smooth the overdrive, get rid of the "farty" lows and improve the reverb (a lot!). Gil said I could share them as long as no one uses them for financial gain. . If anyone is interested in the mods shoot me an e-mail at pablomago AT earthlink DOT net.

I also put in a bias pot in my MK I RI. Gives me a lot more options for tubes

This used to be a dc5 combo, rebuilt it to a nice and portable
home-made head;

http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/500/mesa.jpg

Mesa DC-3...35 watt with single 12"...love it!!!! My #1.

I've only owned one Mesa Boogie and I loved it.

It was a Subway Blues. It was so simple buy sounded so great. Tube reverb, 10" speaker. Just a great amp all around. I've had a bunch of amps but I think that's the only one that I ever regret selling.

That's my main amp these days. If I need a little more output, I stack it on a Boogie EV Thiele extension.