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I wanted a bigger speaker for my Silvertone head, but I didn't want to use my single "15 or my 2x"12 cab with it. I thought it would be a good chance to do a "12 cabinet for it. I didn't want one of the vintage Silvertone cabinets because they aren't often sold separate and the wood quality is garbage and super fragile. I looked at unfinished boxes and finished ones and they were more expensive than I wanted to spend. Then I noticed this for under $100.

20161220_165650 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20161220_165654 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

Just the box. No amp or speaker, but in almost new condition. A lot of the old Silvertones seem to be open back so I thought this would work well.

20161220_165701 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

I wanted a speaker similar to the ones they would use.



Seems they had Jensen ceramic "q" speakers, so I ordered a c12q speaker. Once that comes, I will load it in to the box and wire speaker wire with a 1/4 male jack out to plug in to the head.

Got the speaker and wired it up. Very happy with it. Since the Silvertone was intended for bass, the more trebly ceramic speaker works great. I still pretty much backed the bass all the way off.

20161228_133432_HDR by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20161228_134003 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20161228_134009 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20161228_134928 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20161228_135031 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20161228_135148 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

Only thing I need now is a couple boards to help lift the head up a bit because the handle on the cabinet sticks up too high for the amp to sit flat.

20161228_135751 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

I got a couple 1" x 6" cut to 9.5" length to be my lifts on the left and right of the handle. I was out of my usual dark walnut minwax stain to dress it up, but I had a pack of stain/finish minwax walnut stain wipes. I figured I would give them a try. I am glad I did that on these and not a body or I would have been pissed off. It doesn't apply like a stain at all, but more like brown acrylic paint. Result... the boards look like chocolate/poop. Won't matter for this, but figured I would mention that here in case someone thought about trying the stain wipes. They don't stain. LOL

2016-12-31_10-59-32 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

Wasn't feeling the poo colored boards so I painted them black.

2017-01-02_01-57-07 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

The lifters work great!

IMG_20170102_164113 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

IMG_20170102_164219 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr