Guild Amp Found: 60's J-66

[DrumBob]

My local mom & pop music store has on consignment a 60's Guild J-66 tweed amp that works beautifully and sounds quite good. The seller is asking $895 for it, and although it would be nice to add to the collection, is $895 a reasonable amount for it?

 

[SFIV1967]

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[Guildedagain]

It's just be more expensive later, and you may not find one as nice. Sometimes we get lucky like that, and you find out by buying a couple others later, that there was something special about the first one, which has found you apparently ;]

 

[Guildedagain]

Browsing the net, it looks like GGJaguar has written about these, although maybe not this particular year.

Reading on, 1966 is the last year, so there's that.

How can you go wrong with 12AX7's, 6V6's, and a 5Y3GT?

Easy tubes, and if you were buying a similar PTP amp today, a CARR or similar, it would set you back twice as much without the cool fact IMO, I just can't mix modern pieces in my collection.

 

[Default]

Prices on everything have gone way, way up. If it's been serviced, I would think the price is ok, but most of my amps were bought needs at least some work. The good thing about the 58+ on J's is they used fairly orthodox circuits and the serviceability is much better than the earlier models. Ask them if it's been serviced and make sure the trem works. Those caps fail first.