!!! NBPD 6G2 (recap content on Page 2) !!! PIC HEAVY
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:25 pm
New brown Princeton day!
(Well this is a little belated. Mostly due to being pretty busy lately.)
So here she is. A nearly mint Dec. '62 brown Princeton!
My favorite amp. I can't have only one of these, now can I? No way!!!
I have to thank the "Tell me about Brownface Princeton threads" for helping me justify the need for another one.
Special thanks to StevenO for enduring long winded PMs about these amps!
It's in a super great shape. Despite the new RCA plug on the original tremolo footswitch cable and the re-coned speaker its untouched.
Not a scratch. And the chrome looks new.
Sounds pretty damn good too, despite needing a dire cap job. All the electrolytics read much higher than their printed values.
For the time being, she sits and looks pretty until I get parts in the mail to do the recap and 3-prong cord conversion. Until then I'm not risking playing it.
I really had to convince myself to keep this one, let alone do the cap job. Its so pretty I'm almost afraid to ever take it out. My old '63 was a total beater and sounded so good, but I had no probs hauling it here and there. Might have to get a nice cover for this one. Or look for a beater again.
**Also for those interested (namely anyone following the couple of minute circuit differences amongst 6G2s)...
...this one has 270k bias resistors and a 1M volume pot.
Pron...
"LL" December 1962
Signature on the bottom of the cab. Is that "Ray" or "Paul", "Raul" perhaps?
Sisters.
(Well this is a little belated. Mostly due to being pretty busy lately.)
So here she is. A nearly mint Dec. '62 brown Princeton!
My favorite amp. I can't have only one of these, now can I? No way!!!
I have to thank the "Tell me about Brownface Princeton threads" for helping me justify the need for another one.
Special thanks to StevenO for enduring long winded PMs about these amps!
It's in a super great shape. Despite the new RCA plug on the original tremolo footswitch cable and the re-coned speaker its untouched.
Not a scratch. And the chrome looks new.
Sounds pretty damn good too, despite needing a dire cap job. All the electrolytics read much higher than their printed values.
For the time being, she sits and looks pretty until I get parts in the mail to do the recap and 3-prong cord conversion. Until then I'm not risking playing it.
I really had to convince myself to keep this one, let alone do the cap job. Its so pretty I'm almost afraid to ever take it out. My old '63 was a total beater and sounded so good, but I had no probs hauling it here and there. Might have to get a nice cover for this one. Or look for a beater again.
**Also for those interested (namely anyone following the couple of minute circuit differences amongst 6G2s)...
...this one has 270k bias resistors and a 1M volume pot.
Pron...
"LL" December 1962
Signature on the bottom of the cab. Is that "Ray" or "Paul", "Raul" perhaps?
Sisters.
And super clean, too. Seriously, I thought mine was clean, but that's near mint. And I totally understand what you mean about it being so clean that you're afraid to take it out. If you have a cover with yours, don't hesitate. I have a reissue Princeton cover for mine, which helps but I've also yet to gig mine. 
I've been too busy to do any serious picture taking I guess. So its a belated NAD.