I saw a very early one and got to play it for about an hour once in Austin it was a tweed in near mint condition and it had a Chrome divider down the front top to bottom and the grill cloth was bright red. a very sweet sounding amp.. I know we also did a repair on some when I was working building amps in Austin 25 years ago... The owner duplicated the amp and called it a 'do awl'.
The one I played at Rays heart of Texas looked like it had been in a vault since when it was made....
It was a 1946..
I think the price was 5000 then and I remember reeling from that price saying why
first answer LOOK AT IT when is the last time you saw an amp from 1946 in that condition..?
second answer listen too it Steve Hennig played it and hes Rays son and quite a picker...
I did not believe it was from 1946 I was WRONG...
I said I only said that because it looks like the day it was made...
Here you go... This one is original
They are not real loud but rather sweet sounding not unlike a tweed twin or early bassman
low wattage amp..
I can say this between that amp and Urban's tweed twin I would choose the tweed twin and
thats after playing both we also had tweed twins come through... at the time we were the first ones doing tweed knock offs before THD came out..
I helped cover the amps do the grill cloth build the ilet boards and I did final testing on them and drove them too the airport to ship them to Japan... The Japanese went wild for the tweed knockoffs If they were not perfect cosmetically they were not shipped... It was like working for Fender without permission...
Of all the tweed amps ive played in person and watched be repaired Id say the tweed twins were the cats meow..
Urbans amp is a sweet kitty.. You wont miss the dual professional once you play that amp all night long..
I cant imagine how much the 46 at Rays would sell for now.. Ray Henning was the oldest Fender dealer in Texas
Thats why I lived there as my 2nd home besides where else could you see SRV or EJ come in weekly ?
The grill cloth was this color and I thought it had been replaced they said no
we went back and forth and I looked in the back and I lost..
Not the first time ive been wrong about something and wont be the last it looked so new though..
These small amps above are from about 1947 they were called woodies because you know you could put this in your woody wagon on the way too the beach..
Sometimes I think I was hired at that amp place to get me out of Rays seriously..
Mary jo used to look at me like Mehgyn Kelly leers at Trump...
She was Rays wife and I was broke thats why...
If you did get one to model you would want to try these speakers in it Jensen PM10-C..
This was a 2 10 amp... pre Bassman 4 10 Think Scotty Moore Elvis or may you never hear surf music AGAIN.. Surf music amp....
Keep in mind Leo loved Hawaiian Lap steel he and his wife loved to travel there and
Freddie Tavares was Hawaiian Freddie designed the stratocaster body outline and headstock..
They asked him what he had in mind while drawing it he instantly said its a Woman see her shoulders and waist and hips its a hula girl sitting on the beach..
Bill Carson was responsible for the belly cut on the strat he said the tele was hurting his rib cage so they said well here is a new shape Freddie is working on now Bill told me he took it too the sander and sanded off the front where your elbow goes and he said they cut the first bodies on the bandsaw I said how and handed him my 1959 dakota red strat and he turned it upside down on the table and showed me in the Dallas guitar show and I screamed out loud AH Ha he laughed cause he saw the lightbulb go off in my head He said they had to be careful and not cut their thumbs off..
I went straight home and cut my first stratocaster by hand the same way Bill showed me how at the Dallas Guitar show..
After I built tweed fenders I built 50s strats and tele knockoffs by hand just like they did at fender.
Im an old sole born too late..
Ya had to bring up Fender dual professionals huh I just told M@ id try to lurk more and shut up
M@ I tried.... I really really tried..
I cant help it Well He asked........