Inspired by robroe and isaac i picked up some fabric to cover my boring amp and cabinet and make it DELUXE COOL
Since my uncle runs "American Auto Trim" he told me to take it down to his shop and we would fix it all up!
He put in a block of wood so we could move the decal over to the upper left corner like a Fender cab
The amp's grill cloth got the same treatment, the original cloth is still underneath, also took some Never-Dull to the decal
pure man power, and glue. That glue that he uses is sweet, it just kept sticking no matter how much he pulled on the other side of it. It would stay tacky basically so he could work with it. Crazy stuff. Staples too, its about as legit as it gets.
Totally, his '64 Jaguar is sitting under my bed and he has the matching Deluxe Reverb at home. He's a great musician and i've learned a lot from him. He plays a Taylor acoustic in his church band and its always fun to hear him play even though its not exactly my prefered genre
Who ever did it has done a really good job there... How would one go about getting something like this done?
Doog wrote:"And every day after high school, the young Kurt would sit down with his soldering iron and oscilloscope, to work on what come to be known as the Boss DS-1, the world's first guitar distortion pedal."
Any auto trim place can do this for you, it only took us about 20 minutes. If you have a staple gun handy you can do this yourself. Of course it always helps to have family in the right places
Really all you need:
Fabric - i just picked up a yard and it was more than enough
Glue - you can get adhesive in a spray can these days.
Staple Gun
just make sure its stretched out evenly otherwise it will look lopsided or sag.
He does great work. He had a buggy from the 30s in the shop today that he is doing a full restore on and a 70s vette getting new seats. He's done lots of restore work and even more custom work including airplanes and casinos. Gotta love the little man businesses!
Haze wrote:Any auto trim place can do this for you, it only took us about 20 minutes. If you have a staple gun handy you can do this yourself. Of course it always helps to have family in the right places
Really all you need:
Fabric - i just picked up a yard and it was more than enough
Glue - you can get adhesive in a spray can these days.
Staple Gun
just make sure its stretched out evenly otherwise it will look lopsided or sag.
He does great work. He had a buggy from the 30s in the shop today that he is doing a full restore on and a 70s vette getting new seats. He's done lots of restore work and even more custom work including airplanes and casinos. Gotta love the little man businesses!
Definetly man, from what I've seen it makes most amps look good. Problem is, I have a marshall AVT combo and something tells me that it may just look a bit shit
Doog wrote:"And every day after high school, the young Kurt would sit down with his soldering iron and oscilloscope, to work on what come to be known as the Boss DS-1, the world's first guitar distortion pedal."
after i got it home and back in one piece the head would look way better if it had a blackface face plate. Or at least a white fabric instead of a darker one. I looked into just getting a black faceplate but people are wanting $50 for them.
If you have a spare amp to mess with go for it. Its a lot of fun and its sure to get some odd looks.
ohyeahfuzzbear wrote:Who ever did it has done a really good job there... How would one go about getting something like this done?
research my how to threads on how to do this. i went pretty in depth I think if i remember.
i just used a staple gun (brad gun)...didn't mess around with glue. i put the new cloth right on top of the factory grill material so if you get sick of it or need to take it off to sell it, it will pull right off....im thinking with all that glue its going to be a bitch if you want to change it
