Silverface

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Fender Silverface amplifiers were built between 1967 and 1981. The are called Silverface (or Chromeface) because of the brushed aluminum face plate. In 1967-1969 the Silverface amps had aluminum trim around the grillcloth. All of the Silverface amps had blue labels on the face plate, with the exception on the Bronco, which had red. Some models produced before 1973/74 shared the classic "tailed" Fender logo of the 1960's on the top left corner of the grillcloth. By 1973 a new Fender logo without the underlining tail (first introduced in 1967 with the student Bronco amp) was added, bearing a "Made in the USA" print on the bottom side around 1976. All Silverface models usually came with a sparkling silver/blue grillcloth. Apart few exceptions, many examples made in the mid-1970s used a non-standard sparkling silver/orange grillcloth. The Silverface control face plate was discontinued in 1981 and the 2nd series of the blackface amps designed by Paul Rivera were produced.^[1]

Preceded by Blackface

Silverface 1967-1981

Succeeded by 2nd Series Blackface

[edit] References

1. ^ Fender Amps:The First Fifty Years