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Old 6th Oct 2019, 1:08 pm   #18
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For those that are interested here is the finished amp, covered in black "tolex" - this is car interior roof lining material picked up from a motor trimming supply business - they were also able to supply the white piping, the grill cloth came from my box of grill cloths that I've had for ever - it was folded up in the bottom of the box and I was unable to pull the crease out it, maybe in time it will relax. The front panel artwork was drawn up in Corel and printed on heavy paper at Office Works - glued to a length of 1mm thick Al pre drilled to match the amp control shafts, 3 or 4 coats of spray varnish finished it off.
A nice-looking amp. As it happens, Tolex is pretty commonly used to cover guitar amps, anyway. There are specialist amp-making/repairing companies that keep a stock of various colours/pattern, but most are in the USA, which might not be that useful to you.

With regard to speaker grille-cloth, I recall a technique for getting creases out is to mount it as tightly as you can and then, when it has had time to relax, use a hair-dryer to shrink it and tighten it up.

One comment that I have is that I think you might have radiused the corners - that always makes amps look nicer. I guess that you might have been a bit reluctant to possibly weaken the corner-joints. I also see that you put chromed corner-protectors on the top rear corners. Fender only used protectors on the bottom corners, which is logical when you think about it because of the possibility of putting the amp down awkwardly on the floor (as well as the cost of extra protectors and you can't do anything about the angled top front corners).

I see that you "resisted" the temptation to add "Fender" onto the front-panel. I approve of that. I tend to make a bit of a joke about putting "manufacturers" names on amps that I make. For instance, I was going to add "Fooldya" in the appropriate script to my Deluxe Reverb clone, but then I noticed that "Fender" only appears on the panel, not as a separate badge on the speaker grille, so I didn't bother. My other clones are "Earp" (some kind of Marshall) and "Mega/Bluesy" (a Mesa/Boogie type).

Colin.

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