Attic find gods smile on me again!

[Tim Rinkerman]

A connection was followed, a lifelong desire was reignited, a price was agreed upon...

and here they are.

 

[Kaa]

Nice!

 

[filmtex]

Beautys.

 

[Nashrakh]

Do they come with roadies?

 

[Gravedigger Dav]

In addition to the roadies, you're going to need this

 

[S-Bigbottom]

Them were up in an attic?

Enjoy!

 

[deff]

 

[pfschim]

Them were up in an attic?

Enjoy!

I could understand these being a basement find .. but attic ??

I only ever got to play one 360 stack, can't hardly imagine 2.

good score! enjoy

 

[kesslari]

Very cool.
Cost of 2 Acoustic stacks - negotiated.
Getting them down from the attic - priceless.

 

[Tim Rinkerman]

Well, no they weren't in an attic, storage shed actually. I called it that because I posted a bit of a story on here a few years ago about a 1954 Precision I actually did find in an attic and restored. They haven't been used or moved in at least 15 years according to their former owner. They were used, and used, and used..power cords were repaired about a dozen times. They are un-molested, un-hacked, one looks like it was never opened up, the other one looks like the speaker was removed and replaced, the screw heads show signs of the wrong size phillips jammed into them. I temporarily wired them up to a variac and brought the voltage up slowly and took readings on the test points as they came up to 120V....everything works! One is very early ser. no. 1447, the other 3447. The heads are in really nice shape, a little rust on the hardware, the tolex on the bottoms is a bit chewed up, and the bottom of the bottoms has a little moisture damage, but they weren't abused, or jammed sideways into a back seat..(you know what those look like..). I was a half a**ed, left handed bass player starting in 1969, and have had a blank line on my bucket list for one ever since. These were the MacDaddy bass amps back in the day, and I don't really have a need or use for one, let alone two now, but I don't care! I'm over the moon, and happy as a pig in s**t! I'm going to turn my restorative skills loose and re-tolex the bottoms, re-cap the amps and pre-amps..make sure they play cleanly, clean up or replace the pitted hardware and bits so that after I'm gone, some lucky bass players will still be able to taste the good stuff. I'll post some pics as it goes.

 

[TheCouchBassist]

A connection was followed, a lifelong desire was reignited, a price was agreed upon...View attachment 3826375 and here they are.

Boy, that would never happen to me. My “attic find” would be something like a solid state Crate from the 80’s....ha ha ha

 

[mikewalker]

Nice Score!!!
My second bass rig (after the Thunderbolt) was one of those

About attics: I rescued a '59 Gibson out of a farmhouse upstairs closet in 1976, but it's been slim pickins since then...

 

[BioWeapon]

Well, no they weren't in an attic, storage shed actually. I called it that because I posted a bit of a story on here a few years ago about a 1954 Precision I actually did find in an attic and restored. They haven't been used or moved in at least 15 years according to their former owner. They were used, and used, and used..power cords were repaired about a dozen times. They are un-molested, un-hacked, one looks like it was never opened up, the other one looks like the speaker was removed and replaced, the screw heads show signs of the wrong size phillips jammed into them. I temporarily wired them up to a variac and brought the voltage up slowly and took readings on the test points as they came up to 120V....everything works! One is very early ser. no. 1447, the other 3447. The heads are in really nice shape, a little rust on the hardware, the tolex on the bottoms is a bit chewed up, and the bottom of the bottoms has a little moisture damage, but they weren't abused, or jammed sideways into a back seat..(you know what those look like..). I was a half a**ed, left handed bass player starting in 1969, and have had a blank line on my bucket list for one ever since. These were the MacDaddy bass amps back in the day, and I don't really have a need or use for one, let alone two now, but I don't care! I'm over the moon, and happy as a pig in s**t! I'm going to turn my restorative skills loose and re-tolex the bottoms, re-cap the amps and pre-amps..make sure they play cleanly, clean up or replace the pitted hardware and bits so that after I'm gone, some lucky bass players will still be able to taste the good stuff. I'll post some pics as it goes.

I don't get it... you said everything functions but you're going to recap them? What for?

 

[Pilgrim]

I don't get it... you said everything functions but you're going to recap them? What for?

If those have the original caps, the question answers itself. It's an "if = then."

 

[Bulltrout]

Beautiful. Although I already own two, I can say I'm jealous. Nice score.

 

[BioWeapon]

If those have the original caps, the question answers itself. It's an "if = then."

Right, if... it ain't broke don't fix it?
If they were brought up slowly enough they would have reformed in any case. Not sure if OP had that in mind when starting them up.

 

[fishdreams]

I played over a pair somewhere in upstate New York a few years ago that in all likelihood used to belong to Randy Jo Hobbs, Johnny Winter's old bass player

You just point a finger at your bass from a safe distance and the foundations start to crumble

While a Acoustic Image Upshot is may main cab these days, this is a truly awesome find and good luck on the restoration. Congrats.

 

[dalkowski]

 

[Killed_by_Death]

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

In addition to the roadies, you're going to need this
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I actually had a '77 Dodge Tradesman. It was my very first gig-mobile.