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[jckid649]

There's a good story behind this cabinet and amp. I will post it later this week when I can get a free moment, but in the meantime tell me what you think. Should I lacquer the cabinet or leave it as is? It gets dark like the face of it when I put even clear lacquer on it.

Also those aren't the knobs that will be on it. I have ordered buffalo horn knobs but they are on back order.

ps SlowTrain is my own name that I am using for my personal amps and it's copyrighted too..lol

[dorrisant]

Lacquer it!

Tony

[jckid649]

Lacquer it!

Tony

Sort of thought I would dust it lightly so as not to steal too much from the roughness of the old wood. Maybe a little less heavy than the face.

Also still a little detail to work on, but it's almost there.

[xtian]

That is some beauti-ful dive-bar character, there. Maybe put a good half inch of poly on it, with lots of debris like Buffalo nickels, bottle caps, matchbooks, postcards, condom wrappers, and the like.

[Gibsonman63]

... or perhaps a few condensation rings a session's supply of frosty beverages and a couple of cigarette burns.

I built a really rough plywood cabinet for field testing prototypes. It is a lot more convenient than hauling around a furniture quality head in a flight cabinet.

[surfsup]

That is some beauti-ful dive-bar character, there. Maybe put a good half inch of poly on it, with lots of debris like Buffalo nickels, bottle caps, matchbooks, postcards, condom wrappers, and the like.

agree...

[Cantplay]

Clear dewaxed shellac.

John

[amplifiednation]

That's sweet looking! What do you have in there for speakers?

[jckid649]

That's sweet looking! What do you have in there for speakers?

I got a Scumback M75 LHDC. Sounds really great. This I my first prototype and I'm still playing with the circuit.

[jckid649]

I've heard several say use like a light colored paste for a stain before I lacquer it.

[overtone]

great looking
both the light and the clear coated look good.
The end grain on the panel cut out has not gone darker, is there old finish on there blocking the clear coat?
If it was mine I would try and harmonize the colors in the different elements more, eg. the red hue in the logo and panel does not seem to jive with the rest. I guess that is the one colour / contrast that you have the most control over.
My 2c
best, tony

[overtone]

I've heard several say use like a light colored paste for a stain before I lacquer it.

yes, to an extent it works, but I always find that the clear darkens a bit. There are coatings with white pigments, but you get that limed, white wash look. Maybe try on some similar scrap.

[jckid649]

great looking
both the light and the clear coated look good.
The end grain on the panel cut out has not gone darker, is there old finish on there blocking the clear coat?
If it was mine I would try and harmonize the colors in the different elements more, eg. the red hue in the logo and panel does not seem to jive with the rest. I guess that is the one colour / contrast that you have the most control over.
My 2c
best, tony

Actually I lacquered the front panel and nameplate. The rest of the amp is bare cause I'm trying to decide what I want to do with the rest. I want to go a little lighter on the rest but everything I put on that wood gets really dark.

As far as the end grain vs the body goes I think it's mostly oxidation on the surface but I didn't want to sand too much because I would lose the distressed character of the aging.

[jckid649]

From what everybody I've talked to says that rough surface probably still has some of the old varnish from it's previous life and unless I sand it all the way down (which I don't want to do) it's gonna be a darker tone no matter what. I do think it looks good though. I lightened up the tone on the name plate to contrast the darkness of the rest of the finish.