Leo Fender's 1946 Model 26 'Woody' Bench Amp and a 1950 Fender Broadcaster!

We have the pleasure of uniting two incredibly old and wonderful pieces of Fender history today - a 1950 Broadcaster and the incredibly special 1946 Model 26 "Woody" amp that used to live on Leo's workbench for some time! We've featured both of these pieces separately before, but we just had to get them in the same room together, and many thanks to the Model 26 owner Chris Jansen for bringing it all the way to the shop, and of course the new Broadcaster owner for allowing us to hold on to it for a few extra days for the video. Today, we have Karl here to show you how they sound together!

For more information on the amp, please check out the previous video with all the cool history surrounding it:

Music: The Hollers "You Don't Have To Waste Your Time" (Instrumental)

[hkguitar]

Way to go Karl, most excellent indeed.
Thank You Emerald City, such a Historical Treat to see these two items together.

[ladygadava]

Wow, that was an audio treat. What a great lil amp!!!

[カーロス-wg]

The last time these two were together in the same room, so was Leo himself.

[jcool]

This great old amp really inspires me to build a clone. Or maybe a woody professional clone.

[benjaminfowler]

Karl is my favorite guy to do the demos, this pair sounds fantastic as well.

[Geronimo]

Not bad for a couple of 70 year olds... they make beautiful music together.

[ryanfulldark]

Karl seems at home with a Tele-style guitar for sure!

[johnlattimer]

Way Cool! Been a Fender fan for...? life.;D

[BicycleJoeTomasello]

I have the 1996 woody professional 50th anniversary #4 out of 50 made . Big thing it makes it special is the field coil speaker and the nos trainees, many of the components and tubes are NOS, changes were for safety so it could get underwriter labs approval for the circuit. 
Last year just before the virus hit I sent it to Blackie Pagano to tune it up, because some of the NOS parts were 80 years old and may have been out of spec. Let me tell you I replaced a few tubes with other new old stock and it sounds glorious.
I originally had the matching number for a Snake Head PROTOTYPE with a nice NOS PEDAL STEEL pick up from the first generation of Leo's solid body pine guitars with solid maple one piece necks .
Everything down to the clay dots was authentic, many parts were NOS. I sold that but I'm never getting rid of this amp.

[fingersjkjk]

I used to own serial number 11 no caster before stolen in 1980 which Leo confirmed he worked on when I visited him and George of G&L guitars in 1977 along with a 1959 precision bass had

[mattiasjp]

You mean to tell me that Joe Bonamassa hasn’t bought this artifact already? What is the world coming to?

[giulioluzzardi]

Leo Fender....the Guglielmo Marconi of "Electric guitar music".

[timwatson]

The 'Floydian' mode is often correct.

[broken]

What, that amp is not for sale? I guess I'll put this crisp new 20 back in my wallet.

[elliot]

Hahaha that guitar and amp are almost 150 years old combined lol

[carlcarrasco]

There is an amp in very bad need of servicing. Those paper condenser caps are long past their best days. The cracked carbon resistors have probably drifted way out of specs as well. As nice as the video is it is of amp that is not working correctly.

[paulcowart]

Nice provenance but sometimes old stuff is is just old stuff Guitar sounds super sweet Amp ok

[Halliday]

dude cant sit still...does he have a condition ?