Diamond Balinese 1x12 Guitar Amplifier

Diamond Balinese hand built Class A Fender Tweed style boutique guitar amplifier in excellent condition. Description: DIAMOND AMPLIFICATION BALINESE The Balinese is another product from our collaboration with heralded Class A guru Roy Blankenship. We completed this amp a few weeks after my father died. Since his death, I had been listening to a lot of ZZ Top, one of my father’s favorite bands. When listening to the final product, a riff kept running through my head with a tone that mirrored what I was hearing from this amp. Turns out it was ZZ Top’s song, The Balinese. The Balinese was an infamous night club from down south in Houston on Galveston Island, and the subject of the song (“you can dance all night, if it felt alright, drinkin’ whiskey and throwin’ dice. . .”). As a kid, I wore out my father’s 8-track of ZZ Top Fandango, The Balinese being one of the most popular songs from that album. So it became the Balinese. Seemed like a good fit, particularly considering it also happened to me one of my father’s favorite ZZ Top songs. The Balinese has vintage tweed-style circuitry with a 1x12” speaker. This amp is cathode-biased; no re-biasing is needed when you change the tubes. It can run matched pairs of 6V6 or 6L6 power tubes and either a 5Y3 rectifier or a 5AR4 rectifier. Either pair of power tubes can be run with either rectifier. Power output variable from 10, 15, 18 or 25 watts depending on the power tube/rectifier combination you’ve utilized. . This amp is hand wired, Class A at it’s finest. It is so hand made, that Diamond even literally fabricates the eyelet boards it is built on. As is characteristic of Diamond, only the finest of components are used, even including Mercury Magnetics transformers. True tube, true Class A, true clean/blues/vintage breakup, true Texas. SPECIFICATIONS: Controls : Volume, Volume, Tone, On/Off, Standby Covering : Black Tolex, black/tan basket weave grille Logo : Etched Zinc logo Speaker : Celestion G12H30 Cabinet : Baltic Birch top quality cabinet construction Tubes : Matched pairs of 6V6 or 6L6 power tubes (comes with 6V6 tubes) Rectifier : 5Y3 or 5AR4 (comes with a 5AR4) Power : 10, 15, 18, 25 Watts (depending on tube choice) Power rating : Class A Construction : Hand wired eyelet board Transformers : Mercury Magnetics Weight : 41.8 lbs / 19.0 kg