Here’s one you don’t see every day. Unless you’re Neil Young’s guitar tech, and then you see five. This old Conn Strobotuner ST-11 came in with a blown fuse, leaky cap, and busted power switch.

The Fender Blues Junior. People snapped these up as either a light weight back up, or in many cases as their very first guitar amp.

The fact that this amp makes sound at all is a miracle. In many ways it would have been easier to build an amp from scratch.

This pristine Vibrolux Reverb was purchased at a local music store that will remain un-named. The sales tag sang sweet songs about how “original” and “complete” it was… Right down to its ungrounded two prong cable

Everything you’ve ever heard about the old Sunn Model T amps is true. Believe the hype 100 percent. It’s absolutley elegant in its simplicity, rock solid in construction, and brutal in sonic output.

This beast had spent a few years in storage and needed a good cleaning and a new set of tubes. The screen resistors were toast and the only HT fuse still working (there’s 3) was a 10 amp car fuse.

Not every repair ends in the velvety sheet cake of success that I’ve become accustomed to. Mopsey’s Korg/Marshall era Vox AC306/tb came to me with a serious case of the snap, crackle, pops. My wife plays exactly this same amp, so I cranked up the overconfidence knob and acted like I knew what I was doing.

These old Sovtek Mig50s have the somewhat cliched reputation of being "built like a tank." And for the most part, that's true.

Once back together, the brutal punch from the Trace cab was a pleasant reminder of my bass adventures in the mid '90s. Too bad it weighs about 6000 pounds!

A fine example of just one of the many "interesting" choices made in the 1970s, we present the Univox 1011 in all it's glittery blue glory.