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If you are happy drawing up plans, you can send them to a workshop that does CNC cutting, and then screw and glue and polish the components yourself.
Celestion used to provide suggested cabinet drawings on an obscure page on their website. It takes a bit of searching to find it. Obviously you would need to adapt their drawings for use in a combo.
Their general advice is that guitar cabs aren't very scientific, and stuff like thiele small parameters is not necessary except for bass cabs.
A couple of thoughts: the amount of 'closedness' is an important part of the sound, so you might want to experiment with a couple of different back panels before declaring victory.
Had you thought of an aluminium grille instead of rattan? Laser cutting is fairly pricey, but if you are customizing a Mesa, I guess that won't bother you much.
And a handle on the side leaves the top deck clear for FX boxes and beer glasses. You can dangle it sideways when you carry it. The centre of gravity needs some thought. For extra luxury, you could have a saddle maker do you a leather handle.
Or you could just pay someone to copy the existing Mesa shape, but then you would miss out on all the finickiness and frustration.
Wishing you fun with the project.
There you go.
It looked incredible.
Can’t help thinking a decent chiropractor may need to be on speed dial, but that’s probably just my age.
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Currently for sale:
24.75 scale Kotzen style telecaster
Grover Jackson superstrat
12 string acoustic
OTO Bim delay pedal
I'd be too worried about dents.
Getting a regular amp and rehousing is definitely a better idea than paying Mesa/Gibson gouging prices for it though.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
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Currently for sale:
24.75 scale Kotzen style telecaster
Grover Jackson superstrat
12 string acoustic
OTO Bim delay pedal
However I am in the market for someone to fix the cab on an Epiphone BC30 that got crushed in transit (thanks UPS).This thread is giving me ideas. Have the box remade as a piece of living room furniture maybe. If top gear can make a V8 coffee table how about a 30W drinks cabinet?
When I first went to Chandler Guitars in I think 1986, they had a display in the middle of the shop with a royal blue/birds and a vintage amber/moons PRS, along with a MkIII combo in bubinga and a head/Thiele cab set in flame maple. They were something like £1500 each, when I'd just bought a 1970 Les Paul Deluxe for £350, so they were so far out of reach they may as well have been a million. (Disclaimer: prices and colours may be subject to age-related memory error.)
I still think they're cool, actually. Although I've never been able to get more than one great sound at once out of a MkIII, since all the knobs work on all the channels.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I had an oversized 1x12 made out of 38mm Japanese cedar with a CNC cut 15mm birch ply baffle and a Creamback. Dunno what the weight is, but a very easy one-hand carry. A bit heavier than a Spellbinder bass combo, so maybe 15kg. 38mm is very heavy duty. You could get away with 20mm and still have something robust and a lot lighter. We had some 38mm lying around, which is why I used it.
Yes wood can be dinged. You can sand and revarnish the dings, or decide that they are mojo. Either way it looks better than Blue Peter sticky-back plastic. Sorry - 'tolex'.
Likewise, I don't understand the love for tolex - it might have been the smartest type of covering available in 1960, and it hides a multitude of sins like knotty pine and gaps in the corner joints, but it rips up easily and looks tatty very quickly unless it's protected with a cover or a road case. (Or unless it's the stuff Peavey used in the 80s, which seemed to be made of industrial abrasive cloth or something!) There are a lot of nicer-looking alternatives now.
(Disclaimer - I have just had a cabinet made with a traditional tolex covering, but the reason for that is I wanted it to match my Fender amp head.)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
One of the first speaker cabs I ever built was a plywood cab, varnished and polished to a sheen. Not sure my DSL head appreciated it enough though.
@BlackbirdCabs could probably help with this.
A bit like this Award-Session BluesBaby amp @Modulus_Amps ?
https://guitar.com/reviews/award-session-bluesbaby-22-review/
The mighty EVM-12L loudspeaker contributes a good bit to the weight.