barrymclark

lol. I have been nothing short of impressed with what Darkglass/Neural DSP has been doing with hardware and plugins. Waiting very impatiently. I have been watching the development of this for over a year.

Back when I had one, it was cream piping all day for me. Black tolex, wheat grill cloth, and cream piping. Looked so sharp.

When I am ready (if ever) to get another guitar (believe it or not, while I love guitars, I absolutely HATE keeping them strung... but also HATE not having fresh strings. lol) I am thinking strongly on getting a Bespoke 150 akin to the former 157 but with some specific other "bling" touches. I absolutely LOVE the double-arrow headstock inlay.

I got one of these a year ago. No joke, it replaced all of my amps. Now I run this into a Tech21 Power Engine Deuce Deluxe as a sort of personal PA. Absolutely adore it.

@brentrocks may have be able to give you some idea of what a repair like this can set you back plus what you might reasonably expect from it.

+1 on Mojotone. I have gotten tolex and grillcloth from them and it's all been quality. Great company to work with. ...and I gave them the seemingly impossible job of recovering an old Gibbons cabinet. Did a KILLER job.

What's particularly interesting about Rolands is that the much maligned Distortion knob can add a bit of low-level, lo-fi grit that I've found really, really nice.

The Princeton is FABULOUS and shame on me for not mentioning it. I played a Princeton with a 12 and loved it!

...and, if you're handy with a soldering iron and know a little bit about electronics, kits can be gotten for the classic Fender circuits.

Are you wanting "clean" clean or with a little "squish" to it? Maybe dig up a Gibbons GA20. Hard to go wrong with a Fender Deluxe (or clone or something crazy similar). I'm in a small group on this next one but I LOVE the AC15. I had a Vox AC15HW for a few years. I recently let it go in favor of my Strymon Iridium that could get a strikingly similar tone/texture/feel to my liking. I like to go after smokey cleans. Clean enough to hear everything but some obvious saturation.

Beautiful! Love the finish!

Very cool. Im playing through a Tech21 200w Power Engine. I'm really digging it.

Ooh! A good Deluxe Reverb is awesome. Great find!

Never used a Kingsley but heard glowing reviews. I've been playing through a Strymon Iridium. Really love it.

Nice.