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Apologies again for the number of posts & pics, and also the shoddy quality of the photos. Camera phone is pants. Anyways, thats about it. Took a weekend, and it was a whole load easier than I thought. Give it a go sometime. Love and peas all, Markeebee x

Cowboy tolex and basketweave it is!

Apologies for the preceding HUGE picture of a can of glue. Not even remotely interesting. I ummed and ahhed about what colour scheme to go for, and I thought it would be nice to stick with something a bit traditional. Retro even. So.......

So then I got buzizzle with the gluzizzle:

I made a ledge along the internal sides so that the amp won't dive to the bottom of the cab if the retaining bolts give way. Also makes it a lot lot easier to get the amp in and out:

Then I chopped up an old desk that I had to make the basics of the headshell. All pretty much done on the fly with a chopsaw, a handheld router, a ruler and a handheld drill to make the holes for the dowels that hold it all together :) Here's the dodgy dowel holes:

Got busy with some pretty rudimentary tooling and sandpaper and got all the tolex off:

Here's the cab I found. It's a 4x10 Laney. Quite unusual in that two of the speakers are in a closed back enclosure and the other two are left open. Best of both worlds. Came with Celestion GT10E-30 speakers, but I'll probably swap them out when I decide what to put in there :)

Hi all, long time lurker, first time poster. I'm on my second DC5 now. Sold the first, instantly regretted it, and bought another as soon as I could find one. The only problem I've had is that I like my amps to make a bit more of a physical statement on stage, you know? So I decided to take...