Hey Dan, glad you like it.
Everyone.
Finally got to finish my TC-15 combo. No fault of coco, though; I have two young kids, so everything takes a long time.
I was fortunate, since I know coco personally, to actually collaborate with him on this design. He told me the the type of cabinet he had in mind and I photoshopped up the design. We worked on the cabinet in two sessions. The first was to (to use the American Chopper terms) "mock it up". The second for completion
Once the first session was done, coco built up the grille cloth on the baffle and I took it home and made a stencil of an enlarged Trinity Amps logo and sprayed it on there with my airbrush.
Once I returned the adorned baffle to coco, we booked this past Thursday to finish the job, and I went to Trinity HQ to work on the tolexing and completion. We took over 200 pictures of the process, which I'll leave coco to post, so here she is:
and the back and control panel.
As you can see, this is not a traditional looking amp. I was looking to do something unique and with coco's help (Let's be honest, his leadership), it turned out just as I planned. So you see what it looks like.
Yesterday, I got to play it for the first time for any length of time in the final state.
I know of the reputation of the EF86 as detailed in my earlier post in this thread, so was anxious to see if my foam mounting rig would work as I had designed to dampen the vibrations. Additionally coco put a couple of O-Rings on tube to add to the damping.
Well, yesterday I got to find out how it would work. I turned the amp up to max volume and had my wife play and felt the EF86 and I am happy to report that the tube was completely isolated from the cabinet vibrations.
As I have attested before this amp has myriad sounds, from jangly clean to heavy distortion, depending on the pickups in your axe of choice. Nice. Once I have logged a few miles on this apparatus, I'll post some clips.
Anyway, coco, thanks for a great amp as well as letting me in on all those trade secrets
Coco....Cheers from another happy Trinity owner.
JP