I'm not sure what to do with this fella, but I have a feeling it will stay in the shop as a guitar demo unit (I do like the cleans mixed with the spring reverb) until someone needs a beat-up rawk machine. Send and return with footswitch included.The tube allows a natural distortion when pushed. With Reverb.Has line out and extra out to plug into a larger cabinet. It has a clean and an overdrive with Hi, Mid, Lo controls each channel. With Reverb.Has line out and extra out to plug into a larger cabinet. This is a vintage B.K Butler Tube Works Tube driver Combo amplifier. It seems that the tolex-covered (rather than felt-covered) versions of these are a little rarer and they sure look a lot better. This is a vintage B.K Butler Tube Works Tube driver Combo amplifier. The upper (non-padded) jack also does not hold plugs all that well compared to the lower. The jacks are all those panel-style ones with the irritating plastic threads, too, so you have to be careful about not over-tightening them. It's now ready to roll, though it does show plenty of wear-and-tear to the tolex covering and metal hardware. My own work on it included fixing things that'd been fudged before: it needed a new 3-prong cord installed as someone had clipped the ground prong, all the pots needed spraying-out and the jacks needed tightening, the two preamp tubes needed replacing (I just stuck some spare Chinese 12AX7 ones in there but would put lower-gain tubes in if I were planning to get a more bluesy tone), it needed a serious amount of cleaning-up, the fiber-board holder for the speaker connector tabs needed to be fixed back onto the speaker's frame, and the speaker cable needed replacing as it'd been hacked-up.
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