So just a bit more on the Mojo Chassis saga. I have been issued an RMA but so far no prepaid shipping label. Hopefully that is just and oversight. We'll see. The Mojo guys seem like pretty nice fellows but I'm getting the feeling that they believe I'm some knucklehead who doesn't understand how Fender chassis are laid out. And in their defense, they are taking the chassis back (with return shipping paid by them I think) while possibly believing I'm a moron.
I'm sure they get that a lot but I have serviced, built and otherwise had my hands on a virtual plethora of Fender Tweed, brown, black and silver face amplifiers in the last 25 years. Literally hundreds of them. I have built at least 30 blackface clones and drafted and had engraved the custom faceplate for everyone of those amps.
Many of the blackface amps I've built were built in original Fender chassis which came my way one way or another without their original circuitry. Suffice it to say, I know pretty well how Fender chassis are supposed to be dimensioned. As I said in a previous post, the typical blackface Fender chassis has it's control holes centered at anywhere from 15/16" to 1" from the bottom of the chassis measuring along the angled face. The fellow in Arkansas, from whom I have been buying my chassis as of late, tells me he uses Mojo's dimensions for his replicas. I have also had good luck with Mojo's chassis in the past so this is obviously an anomaly. I don't know if someone was hung-over the day this chassis was made or out on a smoke break when the milling machine went off kilter but 1/8" up makes a huge difference when lining up knobs and lettering on a faceplate. Attached are a photo of both the 1967 Showman chassis I just cleaned up and the Mojo chassis I also had to buff out with a ruler clamped along the face. You will see the original Fender holes are at 1" exactly from the chassis bottom and the Mojo is at 1-1/8" That doesn't seem like much but it is.
