Did I get Shafted in the '60s?

Bassman's had 2x12's ... They didn't sound so well.. The preferred Fender amp was the Dual Showman with 2 JBL D140's

 

Me neither.. never had one but always wanted one.. even worse now if you find a vintage showman they cost much much more.

 

You could make one, JBL D140s pop up every now and then. I've some K140s I've been hoarding for a Sunn 200S cab build. I've the matching Sunn 200S head, it's essentially the 100 watt Dynaco MKIII.

 

Your Fender 210 might be a Tremolux cabinet. It was a sealed back though.

 

To the best of my recollection, and I'm old, Fender never made an open-back 210 bass cab. They did make an open-back 410 combo... the original Bassman. Just like the Super Reverb guitar amp.

 

I think we all got Shafted but it was the 70's

 

Open back = guitar cab, but whether you got shafted depends on whether the seller understood this or not.

 

I don't remember a 210 guitar cab, but that wasn't what I'd would have focused on. Until the Bassman (the head and cab version), Bandmaster and Showman/Dual Showman most of Fender's stuff was in combo format.

 

Not all open back. See post #7.

Here's pics of a 1955

 

Fender never made open back bass cab in the 60s. They made the 410 tweed baseman combo in the 50s but never really was embraced as a real bass amp... We went with ampeg and later with the 215 fender cabs. It really started to happen with ampeg svt, sunn and acoustic in the mid--late 60s.

 

I never heard of an open back 210 Fender bass cab either, as far as I know they were all 212 closed back with the small cabs then went to the bigger cabs again with 212's. I had a Dual Showman back then, nice amp, finally got rid of it when I bought my first SVT. I recently bought a really nice Dual Showman blackface head and it sounds great through an 810 SVT cab, and it's pretty loud too, I've always liked Fender tube heads for bass, Fenders and Ampeg's are my favorites.. To me the old black face Fender heads are the classiest looking amps going.
I think you shafted yourself when you sold that blonde head, I used to play with a guitar player who had two blonde heads and two blonde cabs, sounded great with a guitar.

 

I think those Dynaco's were 60 watt amps, I think there were designated as Dynaco MKIII's, i had one years ago. I have never heard of a dynaco 100 watt tube amp. The Sunn 200S heads were 60 watts also I believe.

 

I had the 6g6 head and the matching cabinet it came with was a closed back 2x12. I liked the sound, used up into the '80s.