synergistic Eminence 10" or 12" w/ El84 amps?

[rp]

I'm hoping someone here tells me from experience that the Ramrod 10" is as good in a Lightning clone as the old G10-35 or newer G10M Greenbacks are supposed top be. I made several baffles and can do 2x10, compact 2x12, or 1x12 open or closed, though I'm partial to 2x10 closed. Note it's bright but no more so than a real one.

I'm open to anything in the $70 range, any brand any size. I just want my new baby to sing.

[Structo]

Sorry can't help you with the 10's as I have never really liked them for guitar but I had to comment on the amp.

Looks really cool!
How was the faceplate done?

If you paint the T nuts flat black it will look better.

[Markusv]

My KT 66 rocket is in a 2x10 combo
Ramrod and ragin' cajun

Initially, I thought that they sounded "smaller" than a single 12 but a few months of playing on and off changed that. I think the amp settled and the speakers broke in nicely.
Definitely very big sounding now and i would do it again. Different flavor to other 2x10's with alnico organ pulls etc. These are in yer face and do the job IMHO.

Markus V

[rp]

How was the faceplate done?

I can tell yah, but then I'd have to kill yah... ok, just this once.

It's just art paper, like book binding paper, but the fancy one off handmade stuff. This is rather expensive Japanese silk screened stuff, was $30 for ~ 18x30". I splurged. You need to live in a big enough city that has specialty art stores w/ wide and unique selection and it's hard not to make your amp look like a folky art project. You can be conservative and use metalized art papers too, like my 5F1.

The letters on the Lightning are old rub-on Chartpak (like Letraset) like architects used to use before computers, both extinct I think but I can still find NOS in NYC. In person close up you can see that it's all a wee bit cockeyed and hand made looking. Would be much better to use Illustrator and a printer but I've no idea how to do that, would have taken me 10X longer to figure it out. I was doing it this way years ago so it was easiest.

The 5F1 was small and I managed to run it through the printer taped to a piece of normal paper, done on MS Word and registration was all trial and error but the silver paper was $3 a sheet so it was just wasting ink. The 5f1 looks real professional and slick!

I use leather type punches to hammer out the holes in the paper. On top is just 1/16" plexi drilled out (use plexi bits!) The 5F1 has some non-glare plexi.

All in all seriously not worth the effort, but I'm not working and bored silly.

BTW I realize the knobs aren't centered to the facia. I punched this chassis long ago as an AC10 and centered the knobs to the chassis instead of to the finished facia. Live and learn.