A couple of years ago, I moved to London for work and left behind my (huge but awesome) Marshall JMP-1 based stack. Needing an amp, I picked up a Flextone IIIXL for about £50 and played it at home and thought nothing much of it. I'm starting to gig a bit more in London and am going back to rack so I can have a separate head/cab system (and also racks are awesome) but I ended up doing a gig with the Flextone the other weekend and that thing is so awesome. Really cut through at gig volumes, sounded great and even got some nice words from one of the other guitarists who was humping round a massive Orange stack.
Needless to say, I'm now a little sad to be letting it go - for the money these days, that is an excellent bit of gear.
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Unfortunately it wasn't working at all so I had no way of seeing if it still sounded like I remember them doing...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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Line 6 only used partical board/mdf on the Spiders.
That seems to have been the justification behind the awful Celestion 'Custom' G12P-80, anyway! Unless that was to save money . Like ply cabs, I think modelling amps would be better with proper premium speakers too, even if they're not quite as 'neutral'.
I was vaguely interested in why this one died - it's the only dead one I've ever seen. It wasn't the power section, it was something in the preamp - just completely dead, and nothing obvious. I did briefly consider keeping it as a powered cab, but it was actually very tatty so sadly it got stripped and recycled.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
It was pretty tatty and grubby, and the owner didn't want to even spend the minimum estimate of £75 to get it fixed, once I'd eliminated simple causes. Even the grille cloth was ripped, or I'd have kept that - it's quite nice.
So in my parts collection I now have a fully-functioning Flextone power section, power transformer, a nice handle, and a few other bits and bobs. The speaker is long gone - I used that for something fairly quickly, which made stripping it down worthwhile.
I did feel bad for chucking the cabinet, but it was just too rough to be of any value even as a project.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein