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bigsur78 wrote:PUPS Pickups (do people say that here or have I been spending too much time elsewhere?)

This one's a pet peeve of mine, but luckily for me, it's not an acronym, so I don't have to worry about it!

OCR: Old Candy apple Red, a Fender Japan color option, a dark candy apple red
TAD: Tube Amp Doctor, vacuum tube retailer
NOS: New Old Stock
FDP: Fender Discussion Pages, located at http://www.fenderforum.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
MOTO: MOther of TOilet seat, a synthetic pearloid laminate material
MDF: Medium Density Fiberboard, a dense, composite wood material
FMIC: Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
PTP: Point To Point, describes (often inaccurately) a type of circuit wiring where components are soldered to terminal strips such as turret boards or tag boards.
PCB: Printed Circuit Board, describes a type of circuit that connects compoents using a conductive (usu. copper) trace that is printed or (etched) on a noncoductive surface.
BF: Black Face, refers to Fender amps produced from 1964-1967
SF: Silver Face, refers to Fender amps produced from 1967-1981
HRD: Hot Rod Deluxe, a modern Fender 40W tube amp
LP: Les Paul, umm...

LHR wrote: TAD: Tube Amp Doctor, vacuum tube retailer
BF: Black Face, refers to Fender amps produced from 1964-1967
SF: Silver Face, refers to Fender amps produced from 1967-1981

I'm iffy on these. I've never seen blackface or silverface acronym'd and unless TAD is some massive retailer that I'm not aware of that's commonly discussed offhandedly like MF, I'm probably gonna leave it off.

Carbohydrates: Hey, it's your thread!

JV: Japan Vintage, used to denote a model of (desirable) Squier guitar produced by Fender Japan in 1982-1984
NGD: New Guitar Day
NAD: New Amp Day

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SRV: Stevie Ray Vaughan
KOTH: King of the Hill
KMT: Kiss Ma' Teeth

I don't think anyone uses it but the 'official' Fender Acronym for the blonde colour is USB, and there's also VWH which is basically that kinda yellowy olympic white that is on some japanese jazzies

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W.A.S.P.- We Are Satan's People

Carbohydrates wrote:

LHR wrote: TAD: Tube Amp Doctor, vacuum tube retailer
BF: Black Face, refers to Fender amps produced from 1964-1967
SF: Silver Face, refers to Fender amps produced from 1967-1981

I'm iffy on these. I've never seen blackface or silverface acronym'd and unless TAD is some massive retailer that I'm not aware of that's commonly discussed offhandedly like MF, I'm probably gonna leave it off.

Hmm, OK - all of these terms (yes, including 'TAD') see regular usage on newsgroups/forums dedicated to the discussion of amps, and have been for as long as I can remember.

andy_tchp wrote:

Carbohydrates wrote:

LHR wrote: TAD: Tube Amp Doctor, vacuum tube retailer
BF: Black Face, refers to Fender amps produced from 1964-1967
SF: Silver Face, refers to Fender amps produced from 1967-1981

I'm iffy on these. I've never seen blackface or silverface acronym'd and unless TAD is some massive retailer that I'm not aware of that's commonly discussed offhandedly like MF, I'm probably gonna leave it off.

Hmm, OK - all of these terms (yes, including 'TAD') see regular usage on newsgroups/forums dedicated to the discussion of amps, and have been for as long as I can remember.

Fair enough! Added 'em in.

Hate to be anal, but:

BF: Black Face, refers to Fender amps produced from 1964-1967. The acronym describes the color of their grill cloth.
SF: Silver Face, refers to Fender amps produced from 1967-1981. The acronym describes the color of their grill cloth.
It refers to the faceplate, black and silver, respectively.

FDP: Fender Discussion Pages, the official Fender forum.
Actually, the official Fender forum is at http://www.fender.com/community/forums/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

OCR: (finish color) Original Candy Apple Red, a Fender Japan option, darker than CAR
This stands for Old Candy apple Red.

scriffraff wrote:W.A.S.P.- We Are Satan's People

+666

LHR wrote:Hate to be anal, but:

BF: Black Face, refers to Fender amps produced from 1964-1967.
SF: Silver Face, refers to Fender amps produced from 1967-1981.
It refers to the faceplate, black and silver, respectively.

Both indeed refer to the faceplate. Note that there was a brief period of blackface aesthetics on the last gasp of silverface amps.

They can also be combined with the model acronyms: SFDR, BFPR, etc.
BM = Bandmaster
MMB = Musicmaster Bass (amp)
PR = Princeton Reverb
SR = Super Reverb
TR = Tremolux ?
VC = Vibro Champ
etc.

Carbohydrates wrote:

bigsur78 wrote:PUPS Pickups (do people say that here or have I been spending too much time elsewhere?)

This one's a pet peeve of mine, but luckily for me, it's not an acronym, so I don't have to worry about it!

[snobbery]
Actually, very few of these words are actually true acronyms- I doubt even offsetters would refer to CAR as "car" except when typing, or AVRI as "avrey". In truth, these are mostly just abbreviations or initializations. Acronyms are words made from initials.
[/snobbery]

cestlamort wrote: TR = Tremolux ?

I thought it meant Twin Reverb...

NOD: New Offset Day

VOS: Vintage Original Specifications.