Rare Gem | '63 Fender AA763 Deluxe Pt 1 | Initial Inspection
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- Опубліковано 6 тра 2024
- Such a beautiful rare bird. Just a few scars that give character.
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These are things I get asked about a lot :
Amp Tech Gear Used :
Hakko FX-951 soldering station
Weller SPG 80L soldering iron (chassis work)
Rigol DS1054Z digital oscilloscope
Thsinde 18B+ digital multimeters
Kester 60/40 solder
Techspray #4 No-Clean Desoldering Braid
Below are things that make this channel possible that people don’t usually think about. If any of these companies want to send me new and wonderful toys, I’m open to that. I can’t take free stuff when it comes to the amps I review, etc, but for the stuff below, bribe away!
Microphones/Audio Equipment :
Guitar Amps : Royer R-10 Hot Rod and/or Shure SM57 (noted in videos)
Voiceover Bench : sE Audio sE8 (small diaphragm condenser)
Voiceover Streaming : Shure SM57 with shockmount and windscreen
Voiceover Mic Arms : Elgato Wave Mic arms
Guitar Mic Stand : Gator Frameworks short weighted base stand with boom
Mic Cables and Guitar Cables : Mogami/Neutrik
Mic pre : MOTU M2
DAW : Logic Pro X on MacBook Pro 16 running Sonoma 14
Plugins : No effects other than level matching/normalization unless a recording
specifically has reverb etc added in post (rare, various Waves plugins)
Monitors : Yamaha HS7s
Monitor Stands : Gator Frameworks Desktop Clamp-On Stands
Monitor Isolation Mounts : IsoAcoustics Iso-Puck Minis
Headphones : Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro (main)
Headphones : Sony MDR-7506 (alternate)
Video Equipment :
Camera : Sony ZVE-10 with SmallRig Cage (main)
Lens : Sigma f2.8 18-50mm (main)
Lens : Sony ZVE10 kit lens (rarely used)
B Camera : Apple iPhone 13 Pro (rarely used)
Tripod : SmallRig 71” with SmallRig Fluid Video Head
Streaming Mount : Elgato Master Mount S with SmallRig Ballhead
Bench Light : SmallRig RC 120D
Bench Light Diffusor : SmallRig Lantern Softbox
Bench C-Stands (light and overhead camera) : Neewer Pro SS Heavy Duty
Streaming Light : SmallRig RC 120B
Streaming Diffusor : SmallRig Parabolic Softbox
Streaming Light Mount : SmallRig 148CM Wall Mount Boom with Triangle Base
Various Other Lights : Neewer LED Panels with Neewer Softboxes
Video Software :
Davinci Resolve 18
Paul Leeming LUTs
Adobe Illustrator 28
Adobe Photoshop 25
Ecamm Live (streaming software)
8:30 47th week of 1963? As a young lad, on Friday, November 22nd, I felt shock and disbelief at a level that would not be eclipsed until September 11, 2001. Each of us has experienced personal tragedy that has affected us more deeply. But as a nation, these events stunned us all simultaneously.
I was sitting in junior English class at duPont Jr Sr High School, when my history teacher stuck her head in the door and told us about the assassination. Really a stunner.
These, and the Princetons, have a different sound than the Reverb models ... they are wonderful.
Hey Lyle! One of these days it would be nice to see you do a show and tell of your favourite hand tools and tell us what you like about them. Personally, i"ve made better purchases by listening to experienced tradespeople explain what makes certain tools great and I'm curious about your take on things. Thanks!
Lyle's list of soldering gear doesn't mention the "Engineer" brand of manual solder-sucker he switched to recently.
@@goodun2974 engineer tools rule, especially the solder pump
Little piece of OCD trivia -- the cup washers for the back panel are from a later generation. They have the flat edges that don't cut into the tolex as the original type would. The original type cup washer can be seen in the view of the baffle board around 5:24
An old Oxford that has a basket that kind of looks like a Utah Coil, but it's an old Oxford. Back when that amp was new, both Jensen and Oxford speakers came in yellow or "gold" boxes with royal blue printing on them. The Oxford box had a blue ox on it. The Jensen box has blue trim with a few fleur de lis ornamentations on it, in blue, and the obvious words "Jensen Loud Speaker" on it, also in blue. Utah coil boxes were yellow or gold and red, and had Utah Coil printed in red ink several times in multiple lines, all running at a 45 degree angle. Those Utah Coil boxes really screamed for attention.
If only old Utah Coil speakers were as loud as their boxes.
M&M Guitar Bar is a great outfit.
Purchased from them many times.
Give your camera more credit. Those screen grid resistors do look crackly glazed & slightly overcooked to my eyes. Ouch, such a nice amp and the chassis has that big cludge dinger dent in it. I have faith that Lyle can make that chassis look as straight as anyone else can, regardless of the tools in the tool box. I bought some of those sheet metal pliers and found me some gently used yard sale Snap On duck bill pliers. Sadly I'd really like to have 3 pairs of those smooth jaw Snap On duck bill pliers, just not for $295. Vise grips with an old paperback book stuffed inside the jaws can work wonders too.
Can’t wait to see and hear the finished product!
I bought a gorgeous condition 5e3 from Mike and Mike's and can confirm comparably immaculate packing. Very impressed with the experience
Grill cloth has been changed as well.
Plenty space on the back panel to drill holes for pentode/triode switch and effects loop . Lol
Please, please, please do a segment called, “Lyle, Love It Or Hate It”!
Adore what you do! You helped inspire me to start tinkering and I recently put a 5E3 kit together and am now hooked.
My sincerest gratitude.
Lyle love it or leave it?
A well preserved mummy ready to rise.
thank YOU . For all that you share .Cheers
@psionic audio One of my Dr Z Route 66’s that you worked on came from Mike & Mikes…their packing is second to none.
The tfk reissue tubes are JJ
I owned one of those. Sold it to buy a Fender Electric Princeton Reverb which I’ve used a thousand times.
I have a 64 deluxe reverb. It looks very much like your deluxe. I bought it about 1980 for $200. I blew the original speaker and replaced it. Its been re-tubed twice, and I had the "death-cap" removed and a grounded cord installed.
I love watching your vids.
Great shows!
Thanks.
Someday I'll have to get a vintage amp! I have a tone master now.. it's awesome
well, the 47th week of 1963 was *mostly* the kennedy administration…
Oh, jeez, that very week. I almost made a reference but it seemed in bad taste. Yikes.
Spookily close to the assassination.
that’s a real beauty
One sweet Deluxe Amp...
" fender electric "...We know youll fix it correctly .Cheers !
I had a 67 Super with a nearly identical dent on the faceplate. I modified a cheap slide hammer to pull most of it out.
I wish I never sold that one. A literal barn find amp that sounded amazing.
Thank you Sir.
It's a shame the chassis has the dent in it. I know it's pretty easy to straighten out the face plate. I didn't know the early black face amps didn't have the Fender logo on the grill cloth.
I would love to do a 63 deluxe build. Then switch my ToneMaster into a brownface
Mike & Mikes? So the owner paid about 20% over market for it but they got a nice card. Nice.
A nice card and a great amp..
May have gotten a better deal because of the faceplate.
Holy shit man! 😎 af
😃👍👍
I must've got lucky with my JJ 6v6s. They've been in my Marshall studio 15 for hundreds of hours of play time and shipping from the US to the UK. What brand do you recommend, though?
I look at this amp...
? I recently watched a video by Fryette amps about reforming the filter caps in his old fender concert. Is this a technique you would employ when you service amps? Pro's and con's of doing so? Maybe a video on the subject would be cool... Thanks...
the caps looked good, no bulging.
No pros, all cons, just replace them
That style of "Slo-blow" fuse, with the spiral filament wrapped around a central core (fiberglas?) appear to have been designed for resistance to sagging from shock and vibration during transport, or perhaps resistance to thermal failure from quick inrushes of current at turn-on. Probably a good choice for use in a tube amp, though 2 amps is definitely too high. I would hesitate to use a fuse rated higher than 25% over the value stated on the back panel.
Don't clean the chasis! Leo used to slather his amps in zinc oxide to make them more UV resistant...
You are right to be suspicious of those CC screen grid resistors. They look like the ones from CE distribution…total garbage. I purchased a bunch with the plan to use them on Fender repairs…all of them were way out of tolerance and look and feel and taste off almost like they are fake. I believe others, myself included notified them so not sure if they are still available…buyer beware. FYI I love and support CE, but this particular product is a fail.