When Leo Fender introduced the Stratocaster in 1954, two versions were available, one with the trem bridge and one hardtail – for some reason, the year with the largest percentage of hardtail models made was 1958.
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The Fender Hot Rod DeVille features three switchable channels – normal, drive, and more drive. The channels share the EQ stacks. The 212 version comes with a pair of 12-inch Eminence speakers.
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Introduced in 1996, the Hot Rod Deluxe updates the Fender Blues Deluxe amp, adding switchable gain levels to the amp’s single channel. This is a tube amp except for the rectifier and and reverb driver and recovery, which are solid state.
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During the 1960’s, Ampeg was a prominent player in the guitar and bass amp market. This 1965-67 Ampeg Gemini II G-15 amplifier tops out at about 30 watts with one Jensen 15 inch speaker. This example is in good working order;
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The Epiphone name was first used on guitars in 1928 by Epaminodas Stathopoulo, but his father Anastasios Stathopoulo had been building instruments since 1873, starting in what is now Smyrna, Turkey. They moved to the United States in 1903. Epiphone focused on high quality archtops, and their instruments were very prominent;
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The original Twelfth Fret offered custom lacquer refinishing, and this 1966 Sunburst Fender Telecaster was refinished in our shop in the late 1970’s.
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