Fender Black Panel Deluxe Reverb

About the Fender Black Panel Deluxe Reverb

The black panel Deluxe Reverb is Fender's 1960s 1x12 tube combo of about 22 watts, built in Fullerton, California: two 6V6 power tubes, a GZ34 (5AR4) rectifier, four 12AX7 and two 12AT7 preamp tubes, and a hand-wired eyelet board with blue molded Ajax coupling capacitors in original amps. Normal and Vibrato channels each have two inputs; reverb and tremolo work on the Vibrato channel only, switched by a two-button footswitch. The stock speaker is usually an Oxford 12K5-6, sometimes a Jensen.

Early 1964 amps have no grille logo, and pre-CBS faceplates and tube charts read Fender Electric Instrument Co.; after CBS bought Fender in 1965 the name became Fender Musical Instruments. The 1966 and 1967 amps kept the circuit; the silver panel came in 1968. Chassis serials start with A. The tube chart has a two-letter date stamp (NC is March 1964, OI September 1965, PF June 1966, QC March 1967). Schumacher transformer codes read 606, year digit, week (606510 is week 10 of 1965), and parts often predate the tube chart because Fender used stock.

The factory two-prong cord is mostly replaced by a grounded one, often with the death cap removed. A recap is routine, the new caps sometimes slipped into the old sleeves, and the tremolo roach often replaced. Expect swapped speakers (Jensen C12N, Weber, Celestion) or reconed originals, replaced reverb tanks and power transformers, added master volumes, later footswitches and new grille cloth. Complete ones keep the Victoria Luggage cover.

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The Fender Black Panel Deluxe Reverb sells for €4,000 today (8 recorded sales, last 90 days; most between €3,250 and €4,750), up 10% on the €3,650 of the 90 days before. There are 34 listings live right now across Reverb, from €2,822 asking, a median ask 9% over the sale median. Figures computed 20 October 2026 by Doirado from cross-platform listing data.