Early Mesa Boogie Dual Rec Multi-Watt?

War_in_D

War_in_D

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Handwritten date on the multi-watt I picked up the other day is 12/21/2009. I didn't think the multi-watt came out until January 2010? Granted, we're talking late December so basically it's like saying January of 2010. I know I bought a multi-watt brand new in early 2010 right after they first came out. Anyone seen another multi-watt with a 2009 date on it? Serial number info on Mesa's website says the serials started with R-52101. Looks like this one is within the first 150 serialized.

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Joined the forum so I could add to this because I also became curious 😄. I have a multi-watt built on 12-17-09 and my serial is R-52197, so it puts it at #97.

I got it in a trade last year and noticed a few differences with some others I had messed with in the past. Biggest was the tube shield not being painted, but bare aluminum. Any I had seen before that were painted, then I found some pictures from early 2010 that showed a multi-watt with an unpainted shield. Not sure if there is anything to that or if they just had a batch of unpainted shields to get rid of.

My favorite Rectifier for sure.
 
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Colt said:
Joined the forum so I could add to this because I also became curious 😄. I have a multi-watt built on 12-17-09 and my serial is R-52197, so it puts it at #96.

I got it in a trade last year and noticed a few differences with some others I had messed with in the past. Biggest was the tube shield not being painted, but bare aluminum. Any I had seen before that were painted, then I found some pictures from early 2010 that showed a multi-watt with an unpainted shield. Not sure if there is anything to that or if they just had a batch of unpainted shields to get rid of.

My favorite Rectifier for sure.
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I had to go look at mine, and it's got the bare aluminum cover as well. The more recent one I had (2016 I think) had the black (powder coated maybe?) shield. I'm not sure when that changed though.
 
Chronic Narnia said:
My 2023 MW has unpainted shields.
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Are you referring to the individual tube shields (like over the preamp tubes)? Those have always been unpainted aluminum AFAIK. I could be thinking of the wrong thing here, but I thought we were talking about the "cage" that goes around the power tubes.

If you got an unpainted "cage" in 2023, that might be unique.

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War_in_D said:
Handwritten date on the multi-watt I picked up the other day is 12/21/2009. I didn't think the multi-watt came out until January 2010? Granted, we're talking late December so basically it's like saying January of 2010. I know I bought a multi-watt brand new in early 2010 right after they first came out. Anyone seen another multi-watt with a 2009 date on it? Serial number info on Mesa's website says the serials started with R-52101. Looks like this one is within the first 150 serialized.

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Who’s signature is that? I saw the same one on a Mesa but could never figure it out.
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War_in_D said:
Are you referring to the individual tube shields (like over the preamp tubes)? Those have always been unpainted aluminum AFAIK. I could be thinking of the wrong thing here, but I thought we were talking about the "cage" that goes around the power tubes.

If you got an unpainted "cage" in 2023, that might be unique.

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The back cover is black but the preamp tube covers are silver.
 
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