Making a combo into a Head and Cab

monquixote

I've been wanting a head and cab for ages, but I always seem to end up with a combo. 

At the moment I have a rather excellent Puretone 1x12 but I quite like the idea of making it into a head and cab. 

How much is something like that likely to set me back, and who does such things?

Cirrus

Zilla did a head and cab box for my ac30. It was around £350 for the pair iirc.

John_P

I used roadkill to make a headshell for my jubilee combo.  I'm pretty pleased with the result for just under £100.  Gives me the flexibilty of a head but I can put it back how it was in minutes.

ecc83

Can't find a good photo of that combo but I suspect that it is of the type that will end up upside down in a sleeve if the valves are right way up.

The solution is to "hang" the chassis from the top of the head sleeve.

Dave.

bertie

Jal is the man,  I think.....................oh now Im not sure...........did he just make an extension cab for his boogie............oh.........bugger

digitalscream

@geepers0677 might be the dude to talk to - he's the one who did that orange Peavey 6505 conversion back on the MR forum. The resulting amp/cab looked awesome in the flesh, too.

geepers0677

Yup. Mine was this:

to this:

Good fun project. Hard though. Recovered it twice as I messed it up the first time and it was freezing in the workshop. Had spare though - the amp is now split, someone on here had the cab and the head is off on tour somewhere.

digitalscream

Oops, I stand corrected - 5150. Same thing etc...

samzadgan

stupid question...but i've also thought about this...what is the issue if the tubes hang upside down?

Dodge

samzadgan said:

stupid question...but i've also thought about this...what is the issue if the tubes hang upside down?

Heat dissipation, but depending on the amp it may or may not be a problem.  Matchless run their tubes very hard and they all hang upside down.

bertie

ooh someone did a laney LC15 didnt they ?

Cirrus

bertie said:

ooh someone did a laney LC15 didnt they ?

Once, but she didn't return any of my calls.

bertie

you're not getting anything close to lol for that

monquixote

I gave him a sympathy lol