Sunday 26 October 2014

Maggie / Two Stroke Style Build Part 2

In this post I'll show some of the current status of the Maggie / Two Stroke build. The cabinet work is mostly complete as it's starting to get cold in the garage and I wanted to get the baffle painted and tolex work out of the way while I could. If you recall from part one of the build,  I had acquired a pair Tweed 5F2-A style raw cabs from a woodworker friend.  Here's a shot of the cabs he sent me while they were in his shop.



The both ended up having baffles for 12" speakers, but I wanted a 10" for the Lone Wolf 6L6SE amp, he was happy to oblige. 

Here's the cab for the Maggie / Two Stroke as it sits now.  I still have to make and tolex the back panels, and the jury is still out on what I want to use for the grill cloth.

This uses a tooled brown western style vinyl from a local Lens Mills fabric store.  




Since I had never tolexed prior to the 6L6SE project I followed a couple of YouTube videos by Uncle Doug.  They were very helpful. His YouTube channel is chock full of useful amp related videos.

Part 1





Part 2




I pretty much followed his methods and achieved pretty good results, I think.  Of course it was much easier on the second cabinet above, as I'd already gone through the steps previously. Both cabs were relatively easy to cover, less intimidating than I had originally thought. For glue I used Lepage Waterbased Contact Cement on both with very good results.

In my next post of this thread I'll look at building the chassis.