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Hi guys,
my bassman needed to be recovered.. sooooo I got the correct tolex and I VERY carefully removed each piece from the amp then cut EXACT copies of each piece. and now the new pieces are not fitting smoothly why???



Bill

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Are the pieces too big? You could have stretched it taking it off. You can trim once the pieces are put back. Use a box cutter knife with replaceable blaces.

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Stephen
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Here's a great thread with a tutorial on tolexing a cabinet.

Gear Page Tolex Thread

I found it useful to lay out large oversized pieces on closely spaced chopsticks and take the chopsticks out one at a time while rolling it down.

For the seams I layered some scrap pieces of tolex between the cabinet and each layer of cemented tolex. (make sure the scraps don't have any contact cement on them). You can then cut through the whole sandwich with a SHARP knife and a heavy metal straight edge. Disassemble the sandwich, throw out the scraps and the seams *SHOULD* fit together perfectly. The trick is not to stretch anything. You want the tolex to be in it's natural state when you measure and consequently glue it.

Pieces that are too big are better than pieces that are too small. You can still save it!

Coco,
what would you charge me to re-cover this head???


Bill

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Sorry you're having trouble, man. Covering the cabinet was easily the most difficult part of my amp build last summer. I wasn't very good, either.

Better to email me.

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Stephen
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