I picked up a used DC-5 a couple years ago, put some fresh tubes in it, and it's been great so far. It was in pretty good shape, but the other night I was bringing it out to my car and passed a little too close to the Christmas tree waiting out on my curb for the garbage pick-up. I put a good sized tear in the grill cloth as a result. It's still workable, but I decided to take the opportunity to spruce the amp up.
I'm going to refinish it to look basically like this:
I already ordered the Tolex and speaker cloth from mojotone (I couldn't find the exact same cream and tan cloth that mesa uses, so I used a plain tan one). I also ordered some knobs from Mesa to replace a few of my chipped knobs, tan leather corners, shiny nails for the corners, and a new handle kit with chrome hardware. No one seems to make a tan leather handle with single hole mounts and correct spacing for this amp, so I'm going to have my shoe guy make a leather cover to go around the metal insert of the handle. But before I spend the money doing that, do any of you know where I can find a pre-made tan leather handle that will fit?
The other thing that remains is the ferrules/grommets at the top of the amp. My amp has 4 countersunk holes at the top for mounting the electronics. The holes are finished with a black plastic ferrule or grommet. The guy at Mesa said they don't have those anymore and never made them in chrome. Anyone here know where I can get chrome or polished nickel grommets/ferrules to fit in here?
I'm going to refinish it to look basically like this:
I already ordered the Tolex and speaker cloth from mojotone (I couldn't find the exact same cream and tan cloth that mesa uses, so I used a plain tan one). I also ordered some knobs from Mesa to replace a few of my chipped knobs, tan leather corners, shiny nails for the corners, and a new handle kit with chrome hardware. No one seems to make a tan leather handle with single hole mounts and correct spacing for this amp, so I'm going to have my shoe guy make a leather cover to go around the metal insert of the handle. But before I spend the money doing that, do any of you know where I can find a pre-made tan leather handle that will fit?
The other thing that remains is the ferrules/grommets at the top of the amp. My amp has 4 countersunk holes at the top for mounting the electronics. The holes are finished with a black plastic ferrule or grommet. The guy at Mesa said they don't have those anymore and never made them in chrome. Anyone here know where I can get chrome or polished nickel grommets/ferrules to fit in here?
