It's gorgeous, whatever it is.
This photo was posted by the incomparable Jonny Lang yesterday, with the simple question: Name That Amp.
As CardboardTube is our resident expert on all things musical — at least where it pertains to guitars — I sent the photo to him for identification, thinking that he’d be able to immediately name the obscure beast against which the Danelectro is leaning. He was just as stumped as I was, and through a fair bit of consultation with the Googles, neither of us was able to come up with an answer.
Now I know we have a few musicians in our midst, and I’m hoping that some of you might be familiar; failing that, I know we also have quite a few internet ninjas amongst us, so let’s see how good your Google-Fu can be. I’m admitting defeat, as are the 78,000 fans on his Facebook page, so perhaps our intrepid crew of geeks can one-up the rest and come up with an answer.
This could be a red herring, but that carving looks awfully like a stylized kanji character.
Japanese for "eleven", if I'm not mistaken.
Yes, that was the amp that Nigel Tufnel used on Spinal Tap's "Live at Budokan".
I think it's custom refurbished deal. I've never seen anything like it.
That was our thought too, but Lang did say that someone should know what kind of amp it is. A custom job would have no way of knowing that…
Obviously, it's a Fender. Oh, you mean the pretty wood-covered amp? On that one, I'm clueless.
I would have voted for a custom one-off case, but Dearthair's comment seems to negate that possibility.
Just for clarification, I didn't call the guitar a Danelectro, I called it a Silvertone, which was the Sears name for all of their musical instruments including Danelectro, National, Harmony, Kay, and Teisco. Basically it's a great go-to name for guitars that you don't really know the origins of since there were a TON with that name on it. The amp is still a mystery, but I'm liking the Spinal Tap idea.
Actually I didn't hear you call it anything. I looked at it and immediately thought "Dano", and never gave it another thought. Now I realise it doesn't say anything, so I might have stepped on an upturned rake…
Let's just call it an Ibanez and get everybody mad at us.
the guitar is a 1958 supro dual tone. I knew I'd seen it before. I had to dig out my guitars: illustrated encyclopedia
no idea on the amp though
The kanji for "11" screams something to do with Spinal Tap, but it looks like a custom one-off or a local Japanese brand that doesn't make it to this side of the pond very often. If it does tie in to Spinal Tap, I'd guess that it's a Marshall stuffed into a new cabinet.
The guitar appears to be an old piece of drek. Just because it's old doesn't mean it's any good. Hand me a Tele or a Strat and I'll be happy.
The character says "love". The rest is still up to you guys as I've no idea in this area. Do people do custom amp/amp covers?