Furniture Style Cabs Build

[syscokid]

Very cool thread. I love to view stuff like this. With all the cabinets stacked, I’m guessing about 4’ tall?

 

[fitz]

Very cool thread. I love to view stuff like this. With all the cabinets stacked, I’m guessing about 4’ tall?

Thanks!
51-1/2" total with the feet on them.
A little taller than the Marshall style cabs I put the Origin in.

 

[fitz]

Just ordered some grill from Ambazon.
Some no-name generic Black & Tan style.
Odd size "last one" end of a roll or something @ 36" x 55" for $20.
(the top one in pic)

 

[syscokid]

That color of grill cloth will look nice with your furniture theme. Is this amp stack settling into a special room?

 

[fitz]

That color of grill cloth will look nice with your furniture theme. Is this amp stack settling into a special room?

Thanks,
The last pic is where the amp will live.
It's in my living room on one side of the couch - the Haze15 is on the other side.

 

[fitz]

Location pics.
How many of you still-married guys have 4 tube amps in your living room?

Haze15 & JTM45.


Origin50 & 4210
(the 50/50/50 home entertainment system)

 

[fitz]

I put the amp & M-2 in the shells.
Thinking of doing a grill cloth logo panel.

I'd like to get/make some kinda gold plexi panel for the M-2.
Might do cloth on that too - I hardly ever engage the additional stages.

 

[Thatbastarddon]

How many of you still-married guys have 4 tube amps in your living room?

I’m not, and I have none in my living room right now…have had them in the past, but since the home theater was added to the studio…none in the living room formal.
I have the bones of a variation of a “furniture amp” build…but I’m a slacker.

Nice rug, by the way!

 

[fitz]

Nice rug, by the way!

 

[fitz]

Baffles laid out and cut.



Cleaned up the cuts with the oscillating spindle sander.



Tried out those screw-in threaded inserts instead of the typical T-bolts.



Predrilled the mounting screw holes, scuff sanded the fronts, and slathered on a quick coat of black stain.

 

[fitz]

Baffles in and mounted the speakers.



Got the jacks installed and put the back panels on.



One done - repeat the process.


Stacked them all up and gave it a test run.
Everything is working as it should.



Also mounted some cup handle drawer pulls.
Kinda furniture-ish, and I got them on clearance for $0.77 each on a parts run to Lowe's.
Grill cloth is due here Monday, so I'm just going to rock it like this for the weekend.

 

[fitz]

Grills and logos.
Nothing's hooked up yet, but perhaps after dinner.
Gotta take it all apart again anyway to get started on the finish.



And I made a "plexi" panel for the M-2.
Not a perfect match on the bronze/gold back paint, but neither is the amp panel and the logos.
I got enough acrylic for 3 more tries if I feel like it.



Cab close up.



Grill cloth was not the size the Ambazon listing said.
Barely 20" tall and about 58" wide.
Not wide enough to cut both cabs and the amp logo panel side by side.
I squeaked the amp panel and one cab out of the 20" height with nothing to spare.

 

[TVvoodoo]

I think I used that same grill cloth to make straps once upon a time back in the day!



I love your project... one of the sweetest I've seen in a while Fritz!

 

[fitz]

Just a quick comparison: stain only vs. tung oil.
It'll be less shiny when it cures.



First coat on everything.
Probably won't need to do the bottoms and inside of the back panels again.
Not wasting time or finish on the inside of the cabs.

 

[CoyotesGator]

Man, that looks fantastic!!

FWIW, I have 8 heads and a combo on the shelves in the bedroom.

 

[fitz]

I'm into the slow boring stuff, but here's a few progress pics:

3rd coat brushed on last night.



Sanded with 400 to knock down the brush bubbles and grain fuzz.



Blast of air and a tack cloth wipe down.



Rubbed on a coat #4 with a piece of old T-shirt.



Repeat process on the rest.



Used up the first 16 oz. can.
Probably another 2 coats to go.
Once the final coat goes on, I'll move this all the parts out of the garage and into the drier, climate-controlled basement.
Then comes the excruciating part of waiting for this to cure well enough to reassemble.

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

Absolutely beautiful work Fitz
A job very well done my friend

 

[Ghostman]

This is awesome stuff. Pure gold.

 

[fitz]

Did a 2nd coat rubbed on for a total of 5 coats.
Didn't look like more would make a difference, so I started the drying / waiting process.
After they had a day or so I brought them upstairs and put the feet and handles on.





Dry enough yesterday to get everything together for a test run.
Tried just about every pedal board I have on them to see what worked best.



Settled on just the Digitech pedals for chorus & reverb in the loop and the Bad Monkey out front.
(also using the BM as a splitter to run stereo with the Haze)
Set it up this morning and I'm calling it done.

 

[BFT Gibson]

Stunning ! Excellent work !