How I came about building this was the result of an unfortunate event. Don't let people with booze near your gear!!! Some one dropped a boubon and coke all over my Marshall VS265 and it dribbled inside, all over the circuit board while it was on. Fried it, and although not impossible to fix perhaps - too major for my abilities at the time. Sigh, I loved that amp. I had to replace it with same. Took a while looking out for one. $500 later all's well that ends well I suppose.
The fried Marshall has been saved for parts for No2 mostly, I've pulled the speakers and made a couple of extension cabinets out of plywood with them. There was also this spare reverb tank that turned out to be exactly the one required for General guitar gadgets "Centre Stage Reverb". Thanks to them for posting this stuff. Had to build it, and it works well. A very analogue reverb. I'm happy enough for this to be my keeper. I only use it when I'm playing clean stuff, and a bit of subtle delay, nice and glassy.
Artwork was done during the sticky decal film period. Painted the enclosure white, then had a go wrapping it entirely in the printed film. Not something I'd recommend. I managed to do it reasonably tidy. The overlap splices are mostly where it looks less than pro. It's not too bad though and allowed me to continue the art pattern all over.
Made up from what I had lying around. Rubbing the stain on ply turned out quite cool I thought.
What a awesome looking Speaker.. Well Done SHEDPEDZ NZ.
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