SOLD!! delicious Abbott-built 5e3 Deluxe clone - with Scumback alnico!

dcg

£575: cash on collection.
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This is a particularly beautifully put together Deluxe clone which I bought from a small recording studio where the remarkable flexibility of what is actually a quite mad - but very effective - tone/volume control system was being put to very good use.

Please shake off your shoes, and take some moments to savour the artistry of the wiring and the immaculately wrought soldered connections; there is clear regard for symmetry and alignment, even for something which is invisible when you're playing.  

None of this would count were it not for The Tone.  Mercifully, the amp roars, and when you first plug in there is epiphany - 'so that's what the electric guitar is meant to sound like!'

And of course this particular UK-built clone (and no, I'm sorry, but I don't know the builder's name) comes with a Scumnico SC75 alnico!  Yes - one of them!  If this isn't the best speaker I've heard, I am officially King Gustav of Sweden.

Cash on collection from central London very much preferred.  This amp is the visceral real deal, so dig in and be more lion.

RiftAmps

This is one from Abbott Amplification, I'd recognise that red wire anywhere - http://www.abbottsmusic.co.uk/

I don't know who built the cab though, Eli has done many 'chassis only' builds where the customer has sourced the cabinet from elsewhere.

dcg

Wow: thanks for the info.  Very much appreciated.  Now I just have to fix the pics...

Gassage

@TheMarlin ;

dcg

In negotiation...

equalsql

Happiness is a hand-wired tweed 5e3. That looks just lovely

Alnico

I've been called worse.

IvisonGuitars

Have a wow - not only for the quick sale but also the most flowery, eBay-esque description of an amp ever to hit the fretboard! Go you ahead my son! :-)

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miserneil said:

Have a wow - not only for the quick sale but also the most flowery, eBay-esque description of an amp ever to hit the fretboard! Go you ahead my son! :-)

I have to agree with you @miserneil  the OP's prose were excellent (note to self.. must nick these for my future amp sales)

dcg

RiftAmps said:

This is one from Abbott Amplification, I'd recognise that red wire anywhere - http://www.abbottsmusic.co.uk/

I don't know who built the cab though, Eli has done many 'chassis only' builds where the customer has sourced the cabinet from elsewhere.

And if I'd had brains, I too could have revisited (note choice of words) the Abbott site and also noticed the very distinctive red wire.  But I didn't.  
BTW - super light pine cab, but v sturdy.

dcg

Thanks for all the comments; a great response to one of Leo F's truly immortal circuits.