'68 Fender Dual Showman & 2X15 JBL Bandmaster Cab

Fender Dual Showman & 2X15 Cab

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'68 Fender Dual Showman & 2X15 JBL Bandmaster Cab

This is the amp that Dick Dale used to get his signature sound. Early ’68 Fender Drip Face black-line Dual Showman piggy back amp with tremolo. Combined with a custom factory ordered ’68 drip face Bandmaster cabinet with JBL D-130 speakers. Original AB763 Blackface circuit - not modded. Serial number A119911 which is actually a ’67 number. Output transformer is dated June of ’67, Choke -Aug of ’67 and Power transformer- Jan. of ’68. The original electrolytic Mallory caps are all dated ’67.

Head is in excellent condition, and has been recently recapped with F&T & Sprague caps A few out of spec resistors were replaced. 4 New JJ matched Power tubes, 2 new JJ12AX7’s on inputs and a NOS Sylvania 12AX7 for the Tremolo circuit and an RCA 12AT7 Phase inverter. At some point in it’s past someone added a 1/4” jack to the back for the tremolo off-on circuit - possibly for a pedal rack control? Includes the original tremolo foot switch.

Big, rich, deep AB763 Fender tone similar to a Twin Reverb but not having the Twin's reverb circuit. Lots of glassy, clean headroom making this amp an ideal pedal platform with a warm tube tone. And loud. Has not been over restored. Metal straps and handle metal has some light rust. Tolex has a few scrapes but is in overall good condition.

The Bandmaster Cabinet was a factory ordered one-off custom with 2- 15” JBL D130F speakers. One of the D130F’s has been replaced with a D130 smooth cone that was re-coned sometime in the past. The cab has some minor wear but no tears. The original green thread grill cloth is in good shape - with one edge pulled slightly. Has durable casters installed.

A few models during this early silverface period actually have the new silver face-plate and the old blackface style back-plate, and the earliest silver faceplates have the mysterious slim black vertical lines. These amps are “sleepers” as most are in every way a blackface amp with silverface cosmetics. There is no clear consensus as to why these lines exist; they appear just before the Volume controls and on either side of the amps name. These lines are a great clue that the amp is one of the earliest with the silverface cosmetics, many of which were otherwise unchanged from the blackface design.

A great condition, great sounding vintage amp and cab that feature that classic Fender Blackface sound.