Picked up a Silverface Fender Pro Reverb Head in Pieces

[Platefire]

Installed the new vib roach this afternoon. The vib seems to be working strong without any ticking. Jammed through it the better part of an hour and it seems to be running well/sounding good. Guess the next thing I'll do for it is build a back-plate. Platefire

[Platefire]

OK, This is pretty old, a little over a year. This is the 1974 Fender Pro Head I picked up for $20.00 in pieces. The cab is not stock/normal. From what I can tell someone cut down a combo or another head and made it into this head you see but the chassis and parts dates to 1974. I can tell the cab was cut down from something else because of the uneven carpentry done in the re-assembly. I still haven't identified what model cab the front black grill and badge came from???
If anyone can ID it, please let me know. I would like to know what cab they made this from.

The reason I'm posting is I finally got around to building a back-plate for it. Didn't have enough black tolex to cover it, so I used imitation leather/vinyl material from wal mart and glued it down with contact cement. I call it my Snake Head Pro because of the snake tolex. To reiterate previous info of this thread, it was modified to 1965 Blackface specs and sounds great. So these are the finish pictures including the new back-plate I made for it. So as Paul Harvey(remember him) use to say "This is the rest of the Story" Platefire

[TIMBO]

I love it when a job comes together, well done Plate.

[Platefire]

Thanks! Ever since I got into tube amps 15 years ago I have been looking for a vintage Fender amp without having to get it off E-bay. Well 1974 is not very old vintage compared to 50s & 60s and it's a long ways from being original stock but represents some sort of break through in my original vintage Fender quest. Platefire

[Ed_Chambley]

Cool amp and 74 is vintage, the problem is we are too so 74 does not sound vintage.

[Platefire]

Yeah, the 70's just seems like yesterday to me. What year would be latest vintage now, 90's??



BTW: can you tell that one of the openings in the back-plate is 1/2" longer than the other one? It was a mistake in my layout and I only discovered it after I had already cut it out. It went in anyway!

[Platefire]

Don't know if I have any bragging rights around here, so I won't go for that. How about happy accident!?!

Anyway this Snake Head Pro Reverb I've been playing over lately and it was sounding ok but the reverb
was getting a little noisy cause when I turned the reverb knob down the noise would disappear.

So I replaced the reverb driver and recovery tubes---problem solved, a lot quieter!

But wait a minuet whoa---the thing sounds suddenly awesome and the response is very flexable even at low volumes---currently playing at 1 1/2. Even the tremolo seems to even stepped up a notch--which it needed to because I needed a little more intensity.

So I'm a little flabbergasted that just the reverb tubes replacement had given it the added oompth to take it from OK to Wow! I'll sure pay closer attention to the health of those reverb tubes from now on as they seem to effect more than I knew. Platefire