Fender serial number lookup amp7/9/2023 If your tweed champ is stamped HH, it was made in 1958/August.Īnother way to get a close estimate of when your amp was made is to read the codes on the transformers. So if your blackface amp has a date code stamp of OB, it was made in 1965/February. The tube chart date code works like this: the first letter indicates the year and the second letter indicates the month. Up until the end of the blackface era (1967), all amps left the factory with a tube chart that had a two letter date code stamped on it. There are some exceptions and some overlap, but the general idea is this: Tweeds (early 50’s to very early 60s), Browns (1960 – 1962), Blondes (1962 – 1963), Blackface (1963 – 1967), and Silverface (1967 – 1981). First, to get a general idea,there’s the appearance/style of the amp. There are some easy ways to find out when your vintage Fender was manufactured. AB165 to AA864 'plus' tweed preamp for BLACKFACE AB165.
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