| Author | Message | ||
| edwin
Senior Member Username: edwin Post Number: 1682 Registered: 5-2002 |
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| lembic76450
Advanced Member Username: lembic76450 Post Number: 351 Registered: 5-2002 |
Nice... | ||
| mtjam
Intermediate Member Username: mtjam Post Number: 125 Registered: 11-2011 |
Excellent! | ||
| moonliner
Advanced Member Username: moonliner Post Number: 207 Registered: 12-2004 |
Really beautiful! Congratulations! | ||
| sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 3177 Registered: 5-2009 |
Nice work , I can see a variety of little faces and critters ! | ||
| dead_head
New Username: dead_head Post Number: 8 Registered: 12-2013 |
Nice job. Looks beautiful. | ||
| edwin
Senior Member Username: edwin Post Number: 1683 Registered: 5-2002 |
Most of the credit goes to Courtenay Pollock. He whipped this out in about a week. I dithered about how to mount it without wrinkles or rips and finally just went for it. The speakers do make it flap a bit, but that's fine. | ||
| jcdlc72
Advanced Member Username: jcdlc72 Post Number: 281 Registered: 11-2009 |
This is wonderful! Is the fabric cotton? How does it behave acoustically? Itīs giving me ideas regarding a pair of far-field (big) control room monitors I intend to build next year... :P | ||
| xlrogue6
Advanced Member Username: xlrogue6 Post Number: 279 Registered: 8-2002 |
Clearly your soul has been psychedelicized! | ||
| dadabass2001
Senior Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 1783 Registered: 6-2002 |
I luv it! Sooo Edwin, how often do you use the vibrato channel on your Showman? ;) Mike | ||
| adriaan
Moderator Username: adriaan Post Number: 3077 Registered: 6-2002 |
Bang on! | ||
| artswork99
Moderator Username: artswork99 Post Number: 1933 Registered: 7-2007 |
Very cool! | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 1642 Registered: 10-2006 |
Groovy! Peter | ||
| edwin
Senior Member Username: edwin Post Number: 1684 Registered: 5-2002 |
I use only the vibrato channel. it has the midrange control and it's fun fire up the vibrato every now and then. My only complaint with my rig is that my bass doesn't feedback easily enough. | ||
| edwin
Senior Member Username: edwin Post Number: 1685 Registered: 5-2002 |
I use only the vibrato channel. it has the midrange control and it's fun fire up the vibrato every now and then. My only complaint with my rig is that my bass doesn't feedback easily enough. The fabric is silk. Apparently cotton blocks the sound. | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 11269 Registered: 5-2002 |
Very cool! And especially nice that you had Courtenay Pollack make them for you. I imagine that the vibes from those grills will help dial in the Phil tone too. | ||
| bassman10096
Senior Member Username: bassman10096 Post Number: 1315 Registered: 7-2003 |
Very cool. I've always wanted to put on tie dyed fronts, but I keep changing cabs... Yours look great! | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 5623 Registered: 7-2004 |
Here's my '66 Bandmaster. I was told the grill has been on since the 60's. Bill, tgo  | ||
| edwin
Senior Member Username: edwin Post Number: 1691 Registered: 5-2002 |
Wow! Do you know who did it or what the material is? | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 5624 Registered: 7-2004 |
As for who did it, I believe I am owner #3 and owner #1, a friend of owner #2 did the mod. It appears to be good old 60's paisley tapestry just placed over the stock Fender grill material. So, two questions for you: 1. How did you get your picture to post so large? 2. How does it feel to have legal weed? Bill, tgo | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 11273 Registered: 5-2002 |
Very nice Bill! Now you and Edwin need to do a gig together, and someone needs to take pics of that. | ||
| edwin
Senior Member Username: edwin Post Number: 1693 Registered: 5-2002 |
1. I'm not sure. With the posted resolution, it was supposed to be smaller and look better, but somehow it forced itself into an ugly, large, pixilated image. 2. OK, I guess. I'm not big weed smoker and my friends who are didn't really pay attention to the legal aspects. I suppose it will feel different once I see some retail stores in action, but apparently that's being postponed here in Boulder. I will say that I'm a little relieved in a couple of senses by this: a) it will relieve people who had fake prescription cards from pretending to have ailments that required a MMJ prescription. I never liked that. It endangered people who have a legitimate need and b) hopefully it will relieve some overcrowding of the jails, prisons and courtrooms. I'm still not totally comfortable with the federal/state tension, which could blow up if there is a change in Washington resulting in much more aggressive from federal law enforcement. I'm also interested to see how this will play out in the context of privatized prisons, where there have been apparently agreements with the prisons by certain jurisdictions to supply the prisons with a quota of "clients" and how legalization will affect those relationships. To my mind, that just points out how horribly wrong privatized, for profit, prisons are. But I am veering wildly off topic here. I got to use my rig as is for the first time for the last couple of nights and I do think that the grill cloth has affected the sound a little bit. It sounds slightly muffled, not as open and clear. It could be due to that I've installed different drivers. I had 2 16 ohm JBLs, a K140 and a reconed and re-magnetized D140 and now it has two original D140s. I don't think they need reconing, but I bet if I remagnetized them, they'd sound a lot better. But damn, it looks very cool! I am thinking that after it wears out I might go to no grill at all. |
