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1965 Supro Thunderbolt S6420

Here it is folks "The Amp". Purely simple low-fi, high gain. Versatile? Nope. Thunderous? Yup. Designed exclusively as a bass amp and marketed as a lightweight jazz unit the thunderbolt proved to be well... not a great bass amp or jazz unit. But you know what they say: One man's junk is another man's treasure. Well at least Hendrix and Page thought so. Hendrix owned a Thunderbolt and Page was known to use Supros on the early Led Zeppelin recordings. This simple beast squeezes your signal through one volume, and one tone (both best left at 10) two 12ax7s, two 6L6GCs, one 5U4 rectifier tube, a giant transformer and out a C15P Jensen 15" speaker. The result? Killer blues machine with tons of low end. This one is mint. Not a scratch in the "rhino hide" blue tolex, no corrosion on its shiny chrome chassis, no buzzy caps, and full-power original tubes. With the exception of the three prong power supply cord, a new power-supply filter cap and two new pre-amp tubes the amp is untouched (We'll provide the original parts with the amp). You will never, ever, find one this clean again - and for that, this one is going to cost you big bucks.

1965 Supro Thunderbolt S6420

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