Thrift store find - vintage Baldwin amp

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Re: Thrift store find - vintage Baldwin amp

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Re: Thrift store find - vintage Baldwin amp

Post by laurie » Sat Sep 25, 2021 2:01 pm

The 4 date codes i can find on the caps are:
- 6430 (one of the Sprague caps) 30th week 1964
- 6613 (another Sprague) 13th week 1966
- 6608 (one of the big multi-segment cans) 8th week 1966
- 6626 (the other multi-segment) 26th week 1966

Speaker date codes are 551 (51st week of 1965) and 611 (11th week of 1966).

Looks to me to have been built in the last half of 1966. probably around July/August.
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Re: Thrift store find - vintage Baldwin amp

Post by laurie » Sat Sep 25, 2021 2:23 pm

Pics to follow once I get it all back together (it is patched together on the work-bench for testing right now).

Sound-clip to follow too...

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Re: Thrift store find - vintage Baldwin amp

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Re: Thrift store find - vintage Baldwin amp

Post by laurie » Sat Sep 25, 2021 10:33 pm

Baldwin C1 Professional ... Completed:
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Re: Thrift store find - vintage Baldwin amp

Post by laurie » Sat Sep 25, 2021 10:34 pm

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Re: Thrift store find - vintage Baldwin amp

Post by Pepe » Sat Sep 25, 2021 10:41 pm

This is so cool! :o
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Re: Thrift store find - vintage Baldwin amp

Post by laurie » Sat Sep 25, 2021 11:02 pm

Pepe wrote:
Sat Sep 25, 2021 10:41 pm
This is so cool! :o
You do keyboards, I do amps and pedals...

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Re: Thrift store find - vintage Baldwin amp

Post by Pepe » Sun Sep 26, 2021 4:33 am

Right, but these beasts simply don't show up in Europe.
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Re: Thrift store find - vintage Baldwin amp

Post by The_Doc » Sun Sep 26, 2021 10:53 am

Sometimes I wish Canada was just around the corner ! Stunning job mate.

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