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1958 Fender Deluxe Tweed 5E3 Vintage Tube Amplifier

Estimated price for orientation: 1 495 $

Category: Guitar Amplifiers
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Description
Brand: Fender Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Model: 5e3 Exact Year: 1958
UPC: Does not apply


Yard sale find, I do not know the history of it. Sold as is. The panel was painted brown, I got most of it off with a plastic scraper and some solvent. It plays, I turned it up to 2 and got a really warm tone. At 2-1/2, it starts breaking up. I didn't go higher than that because I don't know how old the tubes are or when it was last serviced. One wire at a tube socket was cut, maybe that's why it breaks up so early. There are two transformer wires taped off, my guess is it was a replacement transformer that had more wires than needed for this model. I put some flex tubing and electrical tape on the wires to protect them from the edge of the transformer casing. The tweed is still under the vinyl covering, though I assume the vinyl was glued to it and probably won't come off clean. 
Sold as is.
Shipping $45 to the US lower 48. It will be in an oversize box and fully insured. Must be an address that Fedex Ground ships to. If you use a PO box for your primary, please provide a physical address that I can ship to. 
Sorry no shipping to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, APO, etc and no international shipping.
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