11/27/2023 0 Comments 1964 fender musicmaster 2 picsAs well, the Bandmaster design has a fairly low headroom level, leading to early breakup. However, they were overtaken by other higher powered designs as the demand for volume grew. These are great vintage amps, and were pretty high powered for the time. The head still has the original slides, however the original cabinet bolts are gone and replaced with other working units. On the bottom of the amp head, there are two slotted arms that slide out, and the cabinet has threaded ferrules to accept a pair of bolts. The Fender ‘Piggyback’ design includes hardware to couple the head to the cabinet. Here, the Tolex covering is in pretty good shape considering the realities of use, but the cabinet grille cloth has a few small holes visible in the cabinet-front image. The grille cloth and black Tolex coverings on these amps are the most vulnerable to wear and (literal) tear from normal use. The cabinet carries a pair of 1962 Utah speakers. Though it’s not pictured, a Vibrato footswitch is included. The head features its original, dated to 1964 transformers, and some caps have been replaced – this is ultimately necessary on virtually all amps as these parts do wear out. The head is in Blackface garb – white script logo lettering on a black panel, with black Tolex covering. Here we’re looking at a Fender Bandmaster head and cabinet set, built during 1964 at the Fender plant in Fullerton, California. This was immediately referred to as the ‘Piggyback’ design and every other manufacturer soon followed. This solution makes so much sense and became so common that it seems obvious now, but simply separating the amplifier and speakers into separate cabinets was a breakthrough. So a highly innovative solution was found. As power levels started to rise, physically repairing amps took more and more space. In the early 1960s Fender was realizing that combo amplifiers carried service issues in the ever-larger cabinets. Along the way it was also available, from 1955 to 1960, as a 28 watt 3×10 inch speaker combo. Contact us with any questions on other fine amplifiers or instruments we can assist you with!įirst appearing in 1954 and built to 1974, the Fender Bandmaster amplifier transformed from a 26 watt single-15 inch tweed combo to, in 1961, a 40 watt head and 2×12 cabinet set. We’re maintaining this post for reference. q-pickupsīut if any of you have other suggestions, I'd love to hear them.NOTE: This item has been discontinued and is no longer available. So i think this Q pickup is perfect for me. As I like the neck pickup so much (and I normally don't use the bridge pickup that much), I'm not looking for an expensive vintage bridge pickup. I just need a Bridge pickup for this build. Right now all the parts are on their way. New Alpha pots, new mustang switch, wiring and control plate Modified 1964 Musicmaster Pickguard (someone routed a bridge pickup and a selector switch hole in it) So the parts I am making this guitar form are: So that's when I decided to make a Fender Swinger, the raddest Fender guitar to be ever produced. So that is when I decided to complete the whole guitar.Īfter searching on ebay for the rest of the guitar parts, I maneged to find all the Musicmaster parts at reasonable prices, except for the body. So a couple of months later I found a good deal on a 1964 Fender Musicmaster neck. So I put it in one of my Strats, and it sounded great. My intention was to hear by myself how a pre-CBS pickup would sound. So I started looking for Musicmasters and Duo Sonics, because they are very similar.Īnd as I was looking over Ebay and Reverb, I found this fair priced 1964 Fender Musicmaster pickup, so I decided to go for it. So they basically used all the parts form the Musicmaster, modified the headstock shape, and used a modified Bass V Body.Īs I just got out of highschool, I don't have the money to buy an original one, as they are quiet rare (only 250 to 300 were produced). In short: In 1969 Fender had some left over parts from the Musicmasters and Bass V and decided to use them for a new guitar design. I've always liked the look and the story of the Fender Swinger/Musiclander/Arrow. This is going to be my second vintage build/restoration (first one is a Vintage JMI Vox Consort, but I haven't posted about that guitar yet).
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