Experience with "The Cab Guy"?

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Randall
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Experience with "The Cab Guy"?

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Ordered a pair of 5E3 cabs maybe 6 weeks ago. Maybe 3 weeks of trying get an order placed prior to that. An inquiry 10 days ago resulted in the response that they should be ready to go 7 days ago. A second inquiry a few days ago has yet to be responded to.

I know the small builder can get backed up. I paid in advance and I am patient. But this is getting into worrisome territory now. These are for amps that are sold and paid for, and my customers are getting restless.

Anyone have an experience with this builder?
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jon
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Re: Experience with "The Cab Guy"?

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I bought a few cabinets from him over the years. His communication is not great, actually pretty bad. But the product is fantastic.
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Randall
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Re: Experience with "The Cab Guy"?

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Well, they came. And they are nicely done. I got an email apology for him having "some issues" that held things up. He moved the speaker hole to my spec so I can fit a celestion blue in there if I want without it hitting the PI tube, and it fits. So I guess all is well that ends well.
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Re: Experience with "The Cab Guy"?

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He is a really good guy, and does really nice work. He just gets buried in orders (and maybe life) sometimes, and ends up lagging in his communications with customers. But he has never let me down.

Glad it worked out OK.
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Re: Experience with "The Cab Guy"?

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Yep, I have 2 combo cabs from him, they look and sound great. I didn't feel there was any communication issues, I just waited him out. Another cab vendor who will remain nameless, lied outright to me for months promising delivery when he didn't even have a supplier. I'll take a one man shop being truthful over a vendor lying anyday.
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Re: Experience with "The Cab Guy"?

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Thanks for the heads up on the Cab Guy. I just may have to order an extension cab from him. Looks like good work and I like the prices.
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Re: Experience with "The Cab Guy"?

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He built me a few cabs. A little funny with the communication, but makes a good product at a good price.
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Re: Experience with "The Cab Guy"?

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I have the same experience as the other posters. He's a little slow to answer his email but not slow to deliver a really good cab for my Fender Twin, at a great price. He'll get my return business.
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Re: Experience with "The Cab Guy"?

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Order your tweed cabs from john mergili. Mergili innovations. He does them vintage correct, his tweed work is the absolute best. Includes the oak dowels for the chassis cut outs. Uses period correct finger joints, etc. his prices are great too. Uses period correct hide glue too. He does a lot of custom variations too, like 1x 10 champs.
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