Don't Try to Stop Me!

[boots]

I'm thinking about gutting out this old Fender Pro and turning it into some sort of 2x EL34 type of thing. Probably either a TW Express or a Marshall Bluesbreaker-esque something-or-other.

Gonna keep the chassis and transformers. Probably gonna do the rest my own doggone way. At least I won't have to punch any new holes.

This amp had a good life, it was owned by my late buddy back in the 70's/80's. He was the second owner. I know it had been tinkered on and probably modified by the local electronic guru. The caps in the pan had been removed and replaced by Astrons on the tag board. Among probably other mods. I scored a bunch of good tubes and tone caps out of it, and now it is time to give it a new life. I think my old buddy would be proud.

Hopefully this won't be seen as the butchering of a classic amp. It had already been butchered over the years, and was not in very original condition anyway.

Any suggestions on the best way to use all those holes? There are holes for 6 novals and 3 octals.

[M Fowler]

How about turning it into the Climax/New Joyzee since you mentioned Express and the chassis has all that real-estate.

[Bear]

A brownface with harmonic tremolo? You're killing me.

[fuzzheimer]

A brownface with harmonic tremolo? You're killing me.

Yeah, personally I'd just want to tune it up to spec. I've got a brown Super that just doesn't require tweaking, let alone gutting.

[Firestorm]

I'm going to write to my congressman and demand stronger soldering iron control legislation...

[vibratoking]

Hopefully this won't be seen as the butchering of a classic amp.

You can bet it is! At least you know exactly what you are doing. I just watched documentaries of Dahmer and Gacy last night. Similar justified motives.

[Cygnus X1]

How about a D-Style amp?

OK, sorry...

[topbrent]

This isn't what you want to hear, but you ought to sell it as-is on ebay and buy a new chassis and transformers.
If you are just going to start bastardizing a classic, save the poor thing and start clean sheet.

You can get a nice 6MX marshall style chassis from tedweber.com for $30.00. Standard marshall style faceplates fit nicely, as well.

For inspiration look at what xtian has done with his "fiddy" amps on that weber chassis. http://ampgarage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19042

[img:500:233]https://taweber.powweb.com/store/chassis/6mxch.jpg[/img]

[tubeswell]

Please don't gut it! That would be a crime. Please restore it to its former (original) glory! (or at least sell it as-is to someone else who will lovingly restore it)

[jon]

How about turning it into the Climax/New Joyzee since you mentioned Express and the chassis has all that real-estate.

++++one

[bcook]

I'll trade a modifiable chassis with you.

[crbowman]

Post it in the "For Sale" section here as is.
There are plenty of guys here who would love to take a stab at restoring it and the money that you make off it should be more than enough to buy new chassis, transformers and most of the components you would need to build any of the amps mentioned here. Add to that the knowledge that your buddies old amp will have a new lease on life as the absolutely glorious brownface Pro that it is meant to be.

[Reeltarded]

It's a brown pro... one brown pro..

[Firestorm]

It's a brown pro... one brown pro..

But what if it was a first series Marshall 1961 and he wanted to mod it into a Peavey?

[DonMoose]

But what if it was a first series Marshall 1961 and he wanted to mod it into a Peavey?

Well, some of those Peaveys were pretty nice ...