New meets old...

[ER]

A while ago I sold a couple pedals I wasn't using and picked up a Fender Mustang V modeling amp to use as the stereo wet/wet in a wet/dry/wet set up. Well I didn't use it that way and instead used the head as a versatile grab and go amp, and also for recording using the USB out.

The head alone was 25 lbs. in an MDF head cabinet and I had to make a separate trip to lug a speaker cabinet. So that got me thinking, and this is what I came up with, a slightly oversize pine tweed bassman style cabinet with stereo 4x12 floating baffle. Home depot pine, 4 different vintage alnico speakers, all crammed into a 27x26.5x11.375 box.

It only added 20 lbs to turn it into a 4x12 combo, I reused all the old hardware and recycled some oxblood grillcloth from an old leslie scoop, and put on some mix and match chickenheads I had laying around. It sounds really good, and I can't wait to record with it since there are 4 different types of speakers in there, I can mic a different speaker depending on what kind of sound I'm going for, that is if I don't use the cab sims and USB out. So darn versatile. The vibratone sim sounds really nice since it's stereo.
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[xtian]

Dude! More photos! Very cool.

[M Fowler]

Looks great. My friend uses one for recording.

[ER]

Here's the back, it's a small as I could get with 4-12s, the same width as the original head and just a little taller.
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Much cheaper and better tone that getting the twin Mustang IV version. Same weight and only 5.5"inches taller with 2 more speakers. Probably voided my warranty, if I still have one, but it can always go back in the head cab.

[cbass]

so where do the tubes plug in at.They must be inside the chassis some how

[xtian]

Stain is nice. What is?

[ER]

2 coats Zinsser bullseye amber shellac. Sorry Cbass, no tubes in this one, though I can tweak sag and bias in the amp settings...and if I squint really hard the LCD screen puts off a glow similar to a mercury rectifier.

[statorvane]

That is a great looking pine cab. I have a certain weakness for narrow panel cabinets....

[Geeze]

Great job on a classic looking cab. Did you cut your finger joints with a saw or router?

[ER]

Hi Geeze, I used 1/2" dados on a sled I built for my old craftsman "100" table saw. I cut the first side with a half inch spacer and then clamp the two boards together and cut the rest with a 1/2" locating spline that indexes off the last cut made. The two boards together clamp to the back fence of the sled.

Glue and hammer fit fingers, glue and brad narrow panels and clamp with ratchet straps.

Experimented with a 3/8" OSB baffle this time, a little more flexy than plywood, but it's sounding really good.

[cbass]

Looks good nice job

[ER]

In action; dynamic mic dangled by the cable through the handle over the top right speaker
http://soundcloud.com/erik-ross-5/stevesnew4-26
New tune not yet perfected, typical clam apologies etc....

[Paultergeist]

......I used 1/2" dados on a sled I built for my old craftsman "100" table saw. I cut the first side with a half inch spacer and then clamp the two boards together and cut the rest with a 1/2" locating spline that indexes off the last cut made. The two boards together clamp to the back fence of the sled.
Glue and hammer fit fingers, glue and brad narrow panels and clamp with ratchet straps.

Wow, that looks just beautiful.......I wish I had the skills to make somehting like that. Would you consider those joints to be "dovetail" or "finger?"

Experimented with a 3/8" OSB baffle this time, a little more flexy than plywood, but it's sounding really good.

I am a bit surprised that 3/8" OSB will take the vibration....might it get a bit loosened over time?