Gearhead wrote:
Yeah well up close it's clear that tolex is the only way forward, this 1960A is probably as old as I am. We might be able to keep the original speaker cloth, jack, feet, handles, amp slots, etc but the clear lacquer has not done too good a protective job at the bottom corners. Anyway, will see what it looked like new ?
@shaunf: this handy guy is at the stage where it does not matter anymore that he's handy. Not enough time because of career. It was my choice and I now have to live with it. Hopefully it will get better once I figure out how to manage things the right way.
Sorry man, I know that feeling well.
In any case, if something changes and you decide to give it a try, if you're new to this sort of job like I was, you can bank on about 4 hours tops to recover it. The nice thing about that particular cab is that it has the 2 piping channels on top and underneath, which means you use 4 separate pieces of tolex for the sides, instead of one long piece wrapped all the way around. This means you can split the job up over a number of different occasions.
