I presently own two Sho~Bud "Christmas Tree" amps and like them quite a bit .
Not too long ago, there was an unrelated post with a picture of Buddy Emmons standing in the Sho~Bud store (?) in front of a stack of amps. One of these amps was a Sho~Bud Christmas Tree and it seemed to have a tan/beige/blond tolex covering. I like that color!
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[*]Did I see right? Was that a standard option?
[*]Does anybody know what brand of covering this was? Can it be bought still today and where?
[*]Was the speaker grill of a brown color on tan/beige/blond amps or was it black like on black tolex amps?
I've heard that term before but I don't really know what the 'christmas tree' variety is. What are it's distinguishing characteristics? I have a Sho-bud amp with 1-15" and a horn; it is a solid state amp. I have a schematic but it isn't exactly the same; some stages are very different.
My cabinet looks the same but the controls are recessed in, on the top of the face of the amp; it's a 'blackface', with 'jazz bass' type of generic knobs. And my Sho-Bud logo is in the upper right corner. Do you know the technical specs of this amp? Tubes or solid state? The picture looks like 15" spke, possibly JBL.
I found this guy on the net for Sho-Bud schematics and repairs:
Well Bob, this one is solid state, two channels, one reverb only and the other reverb and vibrato, JBL D-130. Yours could be a so called "single channel" if its solid state too, doesn't have vibrato, and yes, you guessed it, it had only one channel.
I'd love for you to e-mail me a picture of yours. And if you want to sell it I might be interested too.
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