One just sold on eBay for $252, closed auction link. According to the Guild literature pictured on page 46 of Mr. Moust's book: "A budget-priced compact amplifier perfect for the professional who deems compactness and good clean tonal quality as important as high-power output".
Auction amp:
Once upon it time, it looked like this exceptionally pristine model owned by one of our members chester (click for more pics of this amp)
This amp ran on 50L6 tubes; a tube most commonly seen in 45 and 78 rpm record players and table radios. Its biggest virtue was that you could operate it with either standard 110 volt power or add rectifiers to each leg and get 60 volts dc. What you couldn't get was output power and tone because that would have meant beefy power and output transformers ... a cost-benefit decision that sacrificed power for cost of construction.
The auction amp's power supply including a small transformer in the red box believed to be a 12V transformer for the heaters. Note also the circular what-ever-it-is just above with the three silver nodes (and jazzdj, if you're reading this, note the fuse in a clip on the inside of the chassis instead of fuse post on the control panel :evil: ):
This is a stock pic of an earlier (or later) Masteramp with two rectifiers ID'd; note also that the little yellow transformer(?) is mounted in the center of the circuit board:
Finally, this is member chester's Masteramp showing that the yellow transformer has apparently moved again and that disk with the silver nodes pictured above was probably a can capacitor now replaced with several individual parts:
The Guild 50L6 amplifiers are more closely akin to early Danolectrics and Harmonys than Fenders or Gibsons. Perhaps a little like Gibson, Guild wanted to be a guitar company first and the amps were seen as accessories ... filler for the catalog.
Other LTG links:
Twin 200 Masteramp
LTG Masteramp thread
Auction amp:
Once upon it time, it looked like this exceptionally pristine model owned by one of our members chester (click for more pics of this amp)
This amp ran on 50L6 tubes; a tube most commonly seen in 45 and 78 rpm record players and table radios. Its biggest virtue was that you could operate it with either standard 110 volt power or add rectifiers to each leg and get 60 volts dc. What you couldn't get was output power and tone because that would have meant beefy power and output transformers ... a cost-benefit decision that sacrificed power for cost of construction.
The auction amp's power supply including a small transformer in the red box believed to be a 12V transformer for the heaters. Note also the circular what-ever-it-is just above with the three silver nodes (and jazzdj, if you're reading this, note the fuse in a clip on the inside of the chassis instead of fuse post on the control panel :evil: ):
This is a stock pic of an earlier (or later) Masteramp with two rectifiers ID'd; note also that the little yellow transformer(?) is mounted in the center of the circuit board:
Finally, this is member chester's Masteramp showing that the yellow transformer has apparently moved again and that disk with the silver nodes pictured above was probably a can capacitor now replaced with several individual parts:
The Guild 50L6 amplifiers are more closely akin to early Danolectrics and Harmonys than Fenders or Gibsons. Perhaps a little like Gibson, Guild wanted to be a guitar company first and the amps were seen as accessories ... filler for the catalog.
Other LTG links:
Twin 200 Masteramp
LTG Masteramp thread
