The ever-popular 40W Fender Hot Rod Deluxe III, equipped with a 12' Celestion speaker, may be the world standard for gigging guitarists. With bottom-end headroom characteristic of 6L6 tubes and a versatile all-12AX7 tube preamp, the Hot Rod Deluxe III amp offers luscious Fender spring reverb, an effects loop and more.If you want to add a little out.
Kcbuck, Maybe YOU did not read Sparkys post from earlier. He said that someone else's guitar had a similar serial number, it was an American deluxe model. If you can read correctly mine is an Original Contour. I did not realize that these two models had the same price tags.Also if you can go back and read Sparkys post since apparently you didn't read it correctly the first time, you will see where he told me to find out the model, what features it has, and what condition is it in. He said if I did that then maybe you could give me a valuation if I could better describe the guitar.Go back and read through it again and you will see that I am right and you are wrong, stop being such a. Ok here is what I gotThat guitar was built 06/2000.Here are the specs:Model Name: American Stratocaster ®Model Number: 011-7400-(Color #) and 011-7402-(Color #)Series: American SeriesBody: AlderNeck: Maple, Modern 'C' Shape,(Satin Polyurethane Finish)Fingerboard: Rosewood (p/n 011-7400) or Maple (p/n 011-7402), 9.5' Radius (241mm)No. Of Frets: 22 Medium Jumbo FretsScale Length: 25.5' (648 mm)Width @ Nut: 1.6875' (43 mm)Hardware: ChromeMachine Heads: Fender ®/Schaller ® Deluxe Staggered Cast/Sealed Tuning MachinesBridge: American 2-Point Synchronized Tremolo with Stainless Steel SaddlesPickguard: 3-Ply Parchment On:(700).
3-Color Sunburst, add $50.00,(705) Olympic White,(706) Black,(712) Candy Cola,(744) Shoreline Gold,(769) Charcoal Frost Metallic,1-Ply Black On:(750) Butterscotch BlondePickups: 3 American Strat ® Single-Coil PickupsPickup Switching: 5-Position Blade:Position 1. Bridge PickupPosition 2. Bridge and Middle PickupPosition 3. Middle PickupPosition 4.
Middle and Neck PickupPosition 5. Neck PickupControls: Master Volume,Tone 1. (Neck Pickup),Tone 2. Was never crazy about Dos XX.
My Mexican beer of choice is Tecate. I know, to many folks, it's the Mexican equivalent of Coors light, but I like it. Can't say I have a permanent favorite beer anymore. Used to be Rolling Rock until Anheuser Busch bought the name and closed the brewery in Latrobe, PA.
It's now brewed in Jersey and it is awful. There's a local micro brew that's pretty good, Sly Fox. They are bucking the current micro brew trend to make everything taste like an IPA.
If business ever takes you to SE PA, give Sly Fox a try. Oooooo memory, that's scary. Here's something my doc told me. My father suffered from dementia and I live in mortal fear of the same affliction.
Imagine my fear as I started to forget things. I asked the Doc and he asked, 'Nouns or verbs?' To which I uttered an intelligent, 'Huh?' 'Nouns or verbs,' he said again, 'Which is it?'
'Nouns,' I said, mostly, anyway, why?' He said, it's simple. Natural aging causes you to begin to forget nouns, while dementia suffers tend to forget verbs.
Hope this little story has been heloful. I'll also ask my daughter who is, among other things, a PA German pow wow doctor, if she has any memory suggestions.
The new Mustang range of digital modelling amps have certainly had some good reviews, but for a straight-ahead analogue solid-state Fender amp, I was always very happy with my Deluxe 112 Plus - USA-made, 94 watts into its single 12' 4-ohm speaker, fairly light in weight, plenty of available volume and very nice and (unsurprisingly) Fenderish clean sounds. The overdriven channel's OK-ish rather than great, but that doesn't bother me.
I still have it, though it's no longer my regular gigging amp, and it's a model well worth checking out on the used market. The following model was the Deluxe 90, much the same but with (I believe) a Celestion speaker. Re Deluxe 112I had a Fender Deluxe 112 some years ago,I will add my positive thoughts to those of Tony475.It's a nice lightweight amp, very loud if you want it to be, I didn't use the gain channel much, but the clean channel sounded good for a SS amp, good reverb too.I found one of those for the son of a friend, he has been using it for several years now with no issues.Fender also made a similar Princeton SS model with a bit less wattage.I think the jury is still out on the long term reliability of the new Mustang ( and other brands ) modeling amps. Fender, Sunn, and Peavey made some great solid state amps throughout the 80s. Their switches, speakers, other hardware, cabinets, and transformers were high quality and build to last. IMO Today, Fender makes a variety of solidstate amps with lesser quality parts that will last hopefully 5 years. Fender's warranty shows the value of the components such that they will trash the broken solidstate amp and replaceing it with a new one vs taking the time to trouble shoot and repair.
The old fender, Sunn, and Peavey solidstate amps are hard to find but cheap. But being vintage 20+ years old they may or may not need some simple component replacement like capacitors to retain their peak performance.