Cherry cab for a sorta Champ - New pics
Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:15 pm
I have been on a build matching heads or cabs for existing equipment kick. A great justification for acquiring new gear - as if I need a reason. A couple of years ago I built a small cab from cherry and walnut and it needed a head to match. A Frenzel Champ - his version - is on order.
I will digress a bit as my first intention was to build a combo with a closed back. I mashed the amp design - tubes up or tubes down or on it's back with knobs pointed up, the completed unit was always 21-22" tall. No matter how much I schemed or sketched I never got a warm fuzzy. Then the cherry cab called - YO, dumbass! The warm fuzzy arrived. I happened to have some left over bits - enough for the sides, top and a front plate. Plywood and fake cherry fingers will be the bottom.
As usual the process required stupidity in the form of cutting a finger joint wrong. Did I cuss? Well, a little. Then I got the parts home last night to glue up. I cut my fingers proud so I can sand them even. But I couldn't get the fingers to play nice. Pipe clamps can exert a lot of force but they won't squeeze wood that is too thick to lay flat. Crap. Back to the off site drum sander.
Here are some parts / assembly pics. I am at the sand it all down and oil it stage - can hardly wait.
Russ
I will digress a bit as my first intention was to build a combo with a closed back. I mashed the amp design - tubes up or tubes down or on it's back with knobs pointed up, the completed unit was always 21-22" tall. No matter how much I schemed or sketched I never got a warm fuzzy. Then the cherry cab called - YO, dumbass! The warm fuzzy arrived. I happened to have some left over bits - enough for the sides, top and a front plate. Plywood and fake cherry fingers will be the bottom.
As usual the process required stupidity in the form of cutting a finger joint wrong. Did I cuss? Well, a little. Then I got the parts home last night to glue up. I cut my fingers proud so I can sand them even. But I couldn't get the fingers to play nice. Pipe clamps can exert a lot of force but they won't squeeze wood that is too thick to lay flat. Crap. Back to the off site drum sander.
Here are some parts / assembly pics. I am at the sand it all down and oil it stage - can hardly wait.
Russ