Remodeling 2555 Jubilee

[Busher]

I just bought a 1988 black 2555 jubilee ,it's in a pretty bad cosmetic shape but sounds amazing so i decided to turn it into a silver Jubilee ,I found a chrome front panel,knobs and white tolex on ebay ,it's gonna cost me about $330 to do .
my question is would this actually increase or decrease the value of it since Marshall didn't make them in white tolex in 1988?

Thanx

 

[jcmjmp]

I just bought a 1988 black 2555 jubilee ,it's in a pretty bad cosmetic shape but sounds amazing so i decided to turn it into a silver Jubilee ,I found a chrome front panel,knobs and white tolex on ebay ,it's gonna cost me about $330 to do .
my question is would this actually increase or decrease the value of it since Marshall didn't make them in white tolex in 1988?

Thanx

Nope. You need silver tolex and I have I piece I could sell you. It would be enough to do 1 head but it my absolute last piece and its NOS. I wanted to keep it.

Mine was spray painted black (original tolex was silver) and missing the faceplates. I got the tolex from Marshall's supplier in England and had custom faceplates made (laser engraved plastic).
Before:

After:

 

[Busher]

Good job you did there.
How much are you asking ?

 

[steelhorse]

Great pic in the after shot, who did the job in the before?

 

[jcmjmp]

Great pic in the after shot, who did the job in the before?

No clue who did that. I saw the amp for sale in Toronto a couple of years ago and it was already in that state. That person was not the original owner. He wanted too much for it and I passed. Some guy in the Ottawa region (where I live) bought it instead. He kept it for a while and then put it up for sale last year. That's when I bought it and started the restoration of it.

It absolutely sound killer. The PT is bad on it and I'm getting MM to make me a replacement. I ran it from an external PT as a test and it was better from that PT.

 

[steelhorse]

Yeah whoever butchered it should be shot.

Again, great job on the restoration. Did you re-create the panels? How does it look in back?

 

[jcmjmp]

Again, great job on the restoration. Did you re-create the panels? How does it look in back?

I did the layout for the panels, front and back. Getting the proper fonts and the Jim Marshall signature took a lot of time and patience. Its not exactly like the original faceplates but I'm real happy with the way they turned out.

 

[GibsonSlash]

jcmjmp, I see you have a canadian 2550 model, how does it compared with a US 2550 model?

Canadian one has a laid-down PT.

 

[Busher]

I just bought a 1988 black 2555 jubilee ,it's in a pretty bad cosmetic shape but sounds amazing so i decided to turn it into a silver Jubilee ,I found a chrome front panel,knobs and white tolex on ebay ,it's gonna cost me about $330 to do .
my question is would this actually increase or decrease the value of it since Marshall didn't make them in white tolex in 1988?

Thanx

Still need an answer to my question please anyone

 

[Busher]

jcmjmp, I see you have a canadian 2550 model, how does it compared with a US 2550 model?

Canadian one has a laid-down PT.

I heard the Canadian model tends to be noisy compare to the American one but Joe banamassa uses a Canadian jubilee , guess they can't be bad .

 

[steelhorse]

Still need an answer to my question please anyone

Me personally? I would re-do it in black and let the stock plates alone.

If you haven't actually done it yet, consider re-doing it in black tolex and keep the original plates as that will preserve the value slightly more imo.

I like how jcmjmp's turned out but he may not be as concerned with resale value as you appear to be. I think the silver tolex is off the hook, besides the previous owner butchered the tolex job and the plates on his so he just brought it back to life, if your plates are in good shape it's a tough choice.

 

[doubletalkinjive]

Me personally? I would re-do it in black and let the stock plates alone.

If you haven't actually done it yet, consider re-doing it in black tolex and keep the original plates as that will preserve the value slightly more imo.

I like how jcmjmp's turned out but he may not be as concerned with resale value as you appear to be. I think the silver tolex is off the hook, besides the previous owner butchered the tolex job and the plates on his so he just brought it back to life, if your plates are in good shape it's a tough choice.

I'll second this. My honest opinion would be to try keep it original and restore it back to its original condition. Do you have a picture of how bad shape it is in? If you decide to convert it to a silver one you should consider how to re-do the backpanel with the serialnumber properly.
jcmjmp's did indeed look horrible before the makeover...wonder how anyone could make themself mess around with such a nice looking stock amp in the first place....

 

[GibsonSlash]

I would not do anything to the head, keep it original if you think to resell it down the road.
You WILL devalue it once you have it redone.

Unless you will keep it forever and can't stand with the current look, then go for it, Busher.

 

[jcmjmp]

Faceplates can be put back to stock form so that mod is completely reversible. For the tolex, I'd go with Black or Silver. Either way, the amp has been recovered. In my books, as long as the recover is good, you shouldn't lose more value than an amp in bad shape. I think silver with chrome would be better because of the rarity but that's just me. Make sure you get some silver piping to complete the look though.

Going to white would def not be good for value. It would have to be in one of the original Jubilee colors.

 

[jcmjmp]

jcmjmp, I see you have a canadian 2550 model, how does it compared with a US 2550 model?

Canadian one has a laid-down PT.

I never tried a US model so I can't tell if there's a sound difference. The differences are the PT, toggle switch for power, no 16 ohm output and no voltage selection on the Canadian model. I love the look of a laydown PT, like the old plexis.

 

[jcmjmp]

I think the silver tolex is off the hook, besides the previous owner butchered the tolex job and the plates on his

Mine was spray painted black, not re-tolexed in black. It was spray painted over the silver tolex, front grill fabric, top handle, silver piping.... everything.

 

[Busher]

here's some pics ,click to enlarge .

 

[steelhorse]

Mine was spray painted black, not re-tolexed in black. It was spray painted over the silver tolex, front grill fabric, top handle, silver piping.... everything.

yeah ok whatever it still sucked and what possesses someone to say to themselves, 'hey I need to spray can this thing all black because it will be so cool'?

anyway looks better after the recover for sure. well done.

 

[steelhorse]

here's some pics ,click to enlarge .

I'd like to see larger pics front back sides and top if you could post them somewhere and post the link here but based on what I can tell out my blind eye (and that's the good one) it really doesn't look all that bad.

Gives it character.

 

[doubletalkinjive]

It doesn't look that bad at all to me form what I can see and I think its possible to remove the setting marks on the front panel. Were they painted on or stickers?
I'd try to remove them, clean the front panel back to stock without dissolving the lettering and otherwise leave it as is. Try with water at first, if that does'nt work out maybe alcohol but be careful not to erase the other lettering, gotta be precise and only touch the added setting marks.
This is a Marshall 'Custom Series' amp and they're in their own realm just like the silver jubes are.
About the dent in the front of the chassis, I'd just leave it really.
It's one hell of an amp you got yourself there and I think it deserves being kept stock as much as possible.