![]() You will occasionally see a PC with black knobs and dark cloth. Aside from that, the only difference is that the "black knob" uses the classic silver/gray grillcloth, the "red knob" having the charcoal cloth shading it closer to the M-80s (which eventually used outright black cloth). People hated the red knobs at the time Fender fixed the problem by replacing the knobs. I imagine that based off the present WP misinformation, somewhere there's people looking at used PC's, seeing black knobs, and cluelessly ignoring the "Made in USA" labels. ![]() The main result is that the "black knob" version is often a steal. The intent had been to make the cosmetics closer to those of the M-80 Series (also produced at Lake Oswego) intended for a younger customer base playing "crunchier" music. These (and related solid-state amps) may be identified by serial numbers that begin "LO-". The early version of the Princeton Chorus was built at the Sunn plant, which Fender had moved to Lake Oswego. ![]() I don't have my notes handy, but none of this should be too difficult to source, I'm going to note it before I forget AGAIN, and it might meantime be of interest to Fender fans. ![]()
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