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Topic: Fender wiring |
Steven Paris
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Posted 13 Dec 2020 1:30 am |
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I am wondering.....what year did Fender switch from point-to-point hand wiring to printed circuit boards in their amplifers?
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Michael Brebes
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Northridge CA
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Posted 13 Dec 2020 8:14 am
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Some time in the late 80's or early 90's. Still using eyelet boards through the Rivera period in the 80's. The Blues Deluxe/DeVille were circuit boards.
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Michael Brebes
Instrument/amp/ pickup repair
MSA D10 Classic/Rickenbacher B6/
Dickerson MOTS/Dobro D32 Hawaiian/
Goldtone Paul Beard Reso
Mesa Boogie Studio Pre/Hafler 3000
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Gabriel Edell
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Hamilton, Ontario
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Posted 13 Dec 2020 4:44 pm
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1986 or 1987. The "red knob" amps (Actually, the ill-fated solidstate "Zodiac" amps from the late 60s/early 70s were circuit board amps, but we don't like to mention those).
To be picky about it, Fender never used true "point-to-point" wiring beyond the early woodie amps from the 1940s. All the tweed through silverface amps used fiber eyelet boards.
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Stephen Cowell
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Round Rock, Texas, USA
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Posted 13 Dec 2020 5:44 pm
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| Gabriel Edell wrote: |
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To be picky about it, Fender never used true "point-to-point" wiring beyond the early woodie amps from the 1940s. All the tweed through silverface amps used fiber eyelet boards. |
My woody Model 26 already had a perf board replacement in it... it's my understanding that the original board was eyelet, here's a still from a video:
And here's the video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7t_R-kWknc
I did hack on mine a little, in the '70s... I put a 9pin socket with a BF Bassman preamp section, improved it greatly (the Mic control became the bass).
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Gabriel Edell
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Hamilton, Ontario
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Steven Paris
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Los Angeles
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Posted 20 Dec 2020 8:13 am
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Gabriel, that link is broken.
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Stephen Cowell
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Round Rock, Texas, USA
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Steven Paris
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Los Angeles
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Posted 22 Dec 2020 3:31 am
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| Definitely a different amp... and it uses the (much weaker) 6K6GT instead of the 6V6GT. |
NOT according to Rob Robinette:
https://robrobinette.com/Fender_Deluxe_Models.htm
He shows it using 2 x 6V6s.
What a great looking cabinet!
I guess one could consider turret-board-wired amps as not true point-to-point, but the difference is minute compared to a full-on PCB-wired amp.
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