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Subject: Re: Tolex Repair (Help)
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 20:43:40 GMT
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In article <3599CC33.481--(at)--acbell.net>,
neife–(at)–acbell.net wrote:
>
> >
> > Not sure how many holes and scuffs you’ve got but sounds like you might
consider recovering
> > it? I haven’t tried this myself but I recall a couple of places selling
tolex (Mojo
> > I’m pretty sure is one) or you could send it in and have them redo it (I’m
sure that’s
> > expensive).
> Only two holes, and a few scuffs…I really don’t want to Spend the
> money to recover this fully (OK, I’m one of those folks who thinks
> a little age showing in guitars and amps is necessary). I’ve never tried
> the Tolex repair stuff advertised in VG magazine, I wonder if anyone
> else has successfully used it.
> Randy
>
I just finished a repair for a friend that sounds alot like this. The amp
was a 67′ deluxe reverb that some misguided soul had installed a set of tilt
back legs on. Actually I kinda liked being able to do the tilt-back thing
but this being the age of vintage PC BS the legs had to go. Using 1/8″
dowel stock, I cut 4 short pieces and glued one into each of the holes in
the cabinet. Make sure you recess the dowels a bit to allow for the
thickness of the tolex on the outside of the cab. On the inside of the cab
I used one of those nifty flexible flush cut saws ($7.00 at Home Depot) to cut
the dowel flush on the inside of the cab. With all of the holes filled in I
could now fix the tolex. Using a hole punch (like for putting papers in a
three ring binder) I punched a few round “plugs” out of some gen-u-ine BF
era tolex that I have lying around from a 66′ SR that I’m recovering. If you
don’t have any tolex handy just snip a few inches off from some of the excess
glued to the inside of your cab. My local office supply superstore had a nice
assortment of diameters for the punches and I found one that was ~1/8″. I
imagine a leather punch or even a piece of small diameter copper pipe could be
used to make the plugs. Last step was to glue the plug into place over the
dowel using a little white glue. Hope this helps.
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