My 200S Speaker Cabinet Construction Project

[Greg_M]

I tried that Simple Green on the Fender grill cloth and it was amazing. The brown nicotine just rolled off. First I went to Home Depot and got some big plastic "For Sale" signs and pushed them in between the grill cloth and the speaker board as I had heard the black will run from the wood.

After that I did the entire amp and it looks almost new. I'm shocked at how well that Simple Green stuff worked.

I did contact Wendells again about the samples. Apparently they are lost and so he is sending me # FN-5660-21 and the Fender grill samples again.

I already ordered the tolex so that will be that.

I'll check out Flip Tops and American Handle Co
Thanks

[wildbill96]

I think you'll be very happy with the FN-5660-21 fabric from Wendell but take a look at the sample swatch and judge for yourself.  That is the type that I ordered and it matched the vintage grills on my 412s cabinets nearly perfectly without looking brand new.  I found it not very easy to work with though since keeping the square pattern of the cloth squared up with the grill frame is difficult.  In hindsight I probably should have taken them to a professional upholsterer.

[D.M.N.]

Once I found out the corners are essentially not available, I started thinking along different lines.
I'd rather make it "different" than a poor copy.

I'm pretty sure that Conrad has the corners in both 2 and 3 pronged versions

[madaradio]

Greg_M, have you contacted Conrad to see if he has any Grill Cloth or Tolex available? I swear that he had some available just recently.

he has both.  I placed an order from him a few months ago.  

[CLD]

Conrad has nice tolex, cloth and plenty of hardware.

[Greg_M]

I'll give him a call on Monday

[Greg_M]

This weeks progress.......

Got the fronts cut out and put in and painted. You can just barely see the T-nuts. I wound up with an inch between the baffle board and the front edge. It doesn't look like that much because I taped off the front and brought the black paint out a ways to cover what the tolex won't cover.



Got the back cut and fit. Drilled the c'sunk screw holes. Drilled the hole for the jack to go into. I got the braces put on, but you can't see them. It's just leaning up against the front in this pic



Got ahold of Conrad and ordered up some corners. They might be here today

[Greg_M]

The corners did come today from Conrad. I checked them with my radius gauges and they are dead nuts 5/16".
So I ordered a 5/16 router bit.

Life is good

[EdBass]

Are going to countersink the back mounting screws instead of using traditional trim washers, or are you going to countersink the trim washers?

[Greg_M]

I am using a trim washer that I used on the last couple of boxes that are themselves counter sunk. They provide a little trim but are sort of like a little funnel. The screw head sits down inside them. They are lower profile and are smaller in diameter. They keep the tolex/vinyl from twisting from the torque of the tightening screw.

They look like this




I countersunk the back to accept the finish washers

[CLD]

Nice touch!

[Greg_M]

I got tired of waiting for warmer weather, so I brought up the cabinet from the garage (much to my wife's horror) and yesterday we did the first step in putting on the Tolex





The bottom is up and the seam will be on the left side.
So far so good

 

[N2000s]

Wow, that's looking great Greg. Nice work!

[CLD]

"We" did the first step in putting on the tolex?

Your wife helped? Wow, I am envious.