Ua the Destroyer
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I decided to recover my cab and amp for a few reasons. My cab is just beat up from years of abuse with torn tolex, and gouges everywhere. Also I have never liked the feel or look of the vinyl used on the old mesa vertical 2x12. I also have had this weird desire to have my cab and head match for years, even if my head does hang off of the cab a little each end. I choose to order Wine Taurus tolex. This is my first attempt at covering an amp so be kind.
So here is the old cab, a vertical Mesa 2x12 half closed/half open back with a black shadow celestion on top, and an EV-12L on bottom. I should have taken a side shot so you could see the gouges all over one side.
Then I removed the old vinyl. I definitely recommend the use of a heat gun and take your time. It removed most of the glue with the vinyl saving me a lot of work. You can see at the corners of the box and the front face where it left glue, but almost all the big flat pieces were nice and glue free due to the use of heat.
Then I used a bunch of wood putty to fill all the gouges dents, and old screw holes. After it dried i sanded the excess off, and smoothly sanded the whole cab.
I had too much glue mess going on while applying the tolex, plus got called away from the project in the middle of applying the vinyl for a few hours, and subsequently I forgot to take any pictures of that part. There are lots of great tutorials online for that part though.
I plan on making a new grill instead of the old metal 80's one next week, and since I know I want mesa gold grill cloth (I think this is actually black and tan jute), I decided to make brown leather corners for the boxes to really complete the look I'm going for. I happened to have a bunch of leather scraps laying around that were perfect for this, so I pried one of the leather corners of my Tremoverb, copied it, and made myself enough corners for the cab and head. I then hammered them in with some nice brass nails.
Here is the completed cab. I had to reassemble it since I have a gig next week. After that I will do the same to the old Tremoverb box, and build the new grille.
These first three images really capture the color as it looks to me in person.
So here is the old cab, a vertical Mesa 2x12 half closed/half open back with a black shadow celestion on top, and an EV-12L on bottom. I should have taken a side shot so you could see the gouges all over one side.
Then I removed the old vinyl. I definitely recommend the use of a heat gun and take your time. It removed most of the glue with the vinyl saving me a lot of work. You can see at the corners of the box and the front face where it left glue, but almost all the big flat pieces were nice and glue free due to the use of heat.
Then I used a bunch of wood putty to fill all the gouges dents, and old screw holes. After it dried i sanded the excess off, and smoothly sanded the whole cab.
I had too much glue mess going on while applying the tolex, plus got called away from the project in the middle of applying the vinyl for a few hours, and subsequently I forgot to take any pictures of that part. There are lots of great tutorials online for that part though.
I plan on making a new grill instead of the old metal 80's one next week, and since I know I want mesa gold grill cloth (I think this is actually black and tan jute), I decided to make brown leather corners for the boxes to really complete the look I'm going for. I happened to have a bunch of leather scraps laying around that were perfect for this, so I pried one of the leather corners of my Tremoverb, copied it, and made myself enough corners for the cab and head. I then hammered them in with some nice brass nails.
Here is the completed cab. I had to reassemble it since I have a gig next week. After that I will do the same to the old Tremoverb box, and build the new grille.
These first three images really capture the color as it looks to me in person.
