When they sign their work

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Leo_Gnardo
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When they sign their work

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Some years ago I was working on a customer's 50W Marshall head when I noticed a peculiar graffito inside the wooden box. Jim Marshall's autograph. I let the customer know he had something special. Why Jim signed it, maybe its original owner was somebody famous, but who knows.

Anybody else run across anything like this?
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Nice! A friend of mine has a blackface Pro with wiring that looked unlike any other Fender (really neatly done, perfectly straight wires with 45 and 90 degree bends, not the loosey goosey wiring that the production ladies did). On the flip-side of the chassis, as he was going to clean it off a little bit, he found a signature penciled in reading "Leo". We're pretty sure it's one of Leo's prototypes, or at least was built by him.
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Re: When they sign their work

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According to a few sources, Jim Marshall used to visit the cab shop, help out or check QC on his cabs. Apparently he signed them, too. Pretty cool, and I've owned a few cabs with his signature inside as well.
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