Well - here it is - that mysterious amp that I own... I'd put it into a workshop in London when I lived there 7 yrs ago... and hadn't seen it since...
Well... she came home last night... I've been down here at the workshop testin' Arthur's work and I'll be damned if he hasn't done a good job!!! It's marvelous... and it's precisely what Chris said it was - a '79 SF that's been BF'ed... doesn't really matter whether Paul Rivera actually BF'ed it any more (that was the lore that went along with it)... it's got a new PT (a nice beefy b*stard), new choke, the original Utah is long gone (and who'd want it anyway...), has a Vintage 30 in it but I'm gonna change that out for something a bit smoother and cleaner... put an early 80's Winged C rectifier bottle in it (had an EH) and it got sweeter for sure... it was great at about 2 and quarter with treble and bass at around 4 and a bit - treble winning that race by a nose... just straight good Fender tone with a bit of chirp and tons of sustain - I'm so used to not having reverb that I tried it to make sure it worked... and then turned it back off again... the 'vibrato' did what it should too... that always cracks me up - how could a guy who got so much right mix those two, eh?.... Whadya think... should we let 'im off?...