Oh Golly Gee

[Ivan Beaver]

Re: Oh Golly Gee

Nice Ivan

Did you put all that stuff in so it can be removed without trace - or did you brutally glue them walls in...?


Years ago I had complete VOX-pa-system - a four-channel 100W transistor amp with spring reverb and two 4x12 boxes with serial numbers 19 & 21 - I ended selling it to someone after he made me an offer that was way too high to resist...

It sounded horrible anyways so it was good riddance then.

I had a plan to put modern stuff inside using plywood panels mounted on original speaker bolts - so it would be fully reversible. Then I planned to do the same with the amp - put in some 600W with small digital reverb - finally use an old shure 55 with some high quality capsel inside ( I´ve built few of those )

Then I would have fun playing it to people and hearing them say : "Oh well - they don´t make them as good now as they used to back in good old days."


Of course YOU could put SBH-10 in some old columns to drop jaws ...

It is "almost" to be able to be put back to original.

You would never know it from the outside. The braces and the "shelf" are glued and screwed in (from the inside only-I used blocks to get a solid attachment point for them).

The original bolts are still in place-so the speakers could be put back in.

The ports are on a "removable baffle" that can come out. It is attached with the original bolts.

I put a NL4 input connector on-but it can be hidden by original plate for the 1/4" jack.

 

[Ivan Beaver]

Re: Oh Golly Gee

Even better, how about if DSL offered custom roll and pleated sparkle tolex as an optional finish for select models, it would at least be cool at trade shows. Long ago when visiting the Kustom factory(when it was in Chanute) one of the techs had a red sparkle roll and pleated (crt) oscilloscope on his test bench.

People who visit really LOVE the look of the old rolled and pleated speakers.

Tom and I have actually talked about doing something like that-but it just ended in talk-but who knows what we might do in the future.

I have a complete blue set that still has the original "smell".

Yes it may be crazy-but from time to time I go over to "sniff it" and bring back some memories from decades ago.

It probably kills a few brain cells---------------

 

[Caleb Dueck]

Re: Oh Golly Gee

Tom and I have actually talked about doing something like that-but it just ended in talk-but who knows what we might do in the future.

A dual 12" tapped sub with 12" coax, priced high enough for the 'audiophool' market, self powered, FIR filters.... LED light inside matched to outer cover color with on/switch on rear.

 

[Ivan Beaver]

Re: Oh Golly Gee

A dual 12" tapped sub with 12" coax, priced high enough for the 'audiophool' market, self powered, FIR filters.... LED light inside matched to outer cover color with on/switch on rear.

I think DMX tricolor LEDs would be better.