cool old dumble

[FUCHSAUDIO]

Their amps looked a lot like Randy (Boogie) and Howard (D*mble) had a baby.....

I'll be trying for the rest of my natural life to block that image out of my mind.

Sorry about the "visual".......lol

[Hotrod Ford]

Everyone knows the jack nuts must face the same way for the amps to sound their best....

That amp looks real, however amazingly clean, especially the condition of the hardwood box too. Kitty Hawk imported Dumbles, and did do some modifications like loops and reverb too. Their amps were clearly "inspired" as well. Their amps looked a lot like Randy (Boogie) and Howard (D*mble) had a baby.....

Andy,

seriously, personally I would never advise a buyer into that amp,

here is a couple of easy tips for you guys to find out the real ones that were imported to Germany (compared to the obvious Nat chassies here for example) ,,There are also other similar fake chassies both silver and also black ones out there (besides the fairly recent "Dumble named "Replica" ones Brandon/ Funk and Natchis made) but those are very easy to spot so,

anyway, the main series of the EU shipped amps had bolder OVERDRIVE SPECIAL text and then also check the inside ring size of the first letter O and you get a clear marking that its wrong size compared to pix on for example the old German Dumble below

also Dumble did not use Philip screws to the rocker switches ,
especially not the modern round head pozi slot philips types,, lol

compare main fonts to this famous real old one of this series,
this has the typical EU chassie that the Bochum boys got
this is correct

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[Bob-I]

Is that a JBL or EVM?

EVM

[talbany]

EVM-L OEM

[Structo]

Interesting Hotrod Ford.

Do you own one or have info of these German amps?

Here is one I have a picture of.
I believe it is a USA one but not sure of the serial #.

It is comparable to the picture you posted.

Then the bare chassis is #40.

[FUCHSAUDIO]

Perhaps I should have rephrased myself: It looked potentially real, albeit a little to "new looking" to actually be real. I think the box looks way too clean and shiny, and chassis has no patina (aging) on it either, just a little too clean to believe....Sad part is I'm sure people built clones (with the name on them) and sold them as such, but given the chance, some people likely RE-sold them as real-deal amps.

[marcos]

After looking at the pix one more time I tend to agree with Hotrod Ford.
At first ,like Andy Fuchs, I thought that this was possibly a real Dumble.
Most of the amps (maybe 10 - 20, nobody really knows for sure) were sold in the vicinity of the Roy brothers´shop in Bochum, Germany.
In the 80s I had contact with a number of Dumble owners, most of them
in that part of Germany.
I bought my Dumble amp from the Roys,and visited their workshop
two times in 1981, when they were already making Kitty Hawk amps,
so I know a little bit about this topic, but much of the Dumble/Roy connection remains mysterious.
Marcos

[ampcrack]

Andy Fuchs wrote: chassis has no patina (aging)...

Most of them don't.

Approx. the first 10 had separate front plates and they aged, or got a type of yellowish patina.
Like David Lindley's amp.

[FUCHSAUDIO]

Having seen that series of Dumbles, I based my chassis on the three piece design. By making front and back panels separate, you gain extra thickness at front and rear edges (for strength), and also leave open the door for taller panels, or different models sharing the same "pan". Always thought that was slick. The aluminum foil covered wooden end caps were cool too...but I decided to do without them.....