In the early 1980’s, I bought a used Fender Bassman amp from a male nurse I knew while I was working at French Hospital in San Luis Obispo. At the time, I was attending Cal Poly and working at the hospital in Data Entry to help defray college expenses. And, I played my bass guitar in Church functions. The guy who sold it told me that it had been modified. At the time, I didn’t much care, as long as it worked. And it did.
Fast forward to 2007. The amp had been sitting in my closet for a number of years and virtually unused. I knew the tubes had problems and I had no idea what kind of shape it was in. A customer of mine mentioned that he knew of a place that sold kits and instructions for rebuilding these amps. Since my son was an aspiring guitarist and was starting to get interested in having an amp, it made sense to rebuild the Bassman, modify it for guitar use, and put the classic amp back in service. The more Nathaniel researched what other guitar players were saying, the more he realized he liked the idea.
