It's a shame those negative comments appear at the top. You have done a SUPERB job my friend. I am inspired to re-tolex my 2x12 marshall cab myself now, I may even do my 4x12 if that goes well. I'm good with a craft knife and have an eye for a pattern. Something I would never have considered before seeing this. Thank you.
Great seam on the bottom. I tense up and cringe on project steps like that. You made it look so easy, but as you mentioned, you have to caress and persuade those parts of the process. Excellent craftsmanship!!!
Amazing! This is priceless for people who wants to learn how to tolex (like me). I'm starting my first head cab build soon and this will surely be helpful. Thanks!
Aaaah! I like Peavey more and more every day! :o) I played a great Fender valve amp, yellow cloth, chrome chassis, all valve, tag board assembly, sounded the mutts nuts. Then I found the Peavey name on the back. I was actually in shock - They now make amps the way Fender should be doing it. This thing was brand new and sounded like the best vintage Fender - and I've played a few!
Thanks for this. Kinda looks like my wall-covering skills will help me get the job done. I was unsure about some things. I am now confident I can get some decent results. Thanks again.
You make it look really easy, without any flaw. Good preparation with sanding and stuff... I guess it's not that easy to actually do it from zero to final step. I think about re-tolexing one of my amp and ended up on your video, thanks for the tuto.
ignore him...for me this is perfect...why should we waste time for something that are not gonna show? plus, stock cabinets do have those corner pieces, so it means that even the master craftsmen didn't bother to waste time on perfecting their tolex cut on their products...you've done a perfect job, and now i'm gonna retolex my cabinet to, thanks to you...
Nice job, this is pretty much exactly how I recover cabs too - the removal of the old glue is required to ensure you get a good clean bond, plus the old glue would cause lumps under the tolex if left. I use petrol and a wallpaper scraper to get the excess glue off, then finish with an electrical sander. I also use a sander for the corners, but a router would indeed be quicker (I just don't have one). My current recover head cab (JCA100) is getting done in the same cream levant you've used.
Very real life job.Well done i reckon. Im about to re-cover a sixties Fender twin reverb.This will be my first re-cover job. Your video will certinly help.
I know this is from 7 yrs ago, but im about to install a cloth tweed cover on my Peavey Classic 30. Being my first tolex job, im wondering if you found any helpful videos or tips to share? Thanks
Excellent job man!. Thanks for posting too. I am planning to do the same with my JCM-800 2210. Its got the red tolex and its fairly beat up since the 80's. Seems to have the same build as this 5150. Keep up the good work!
Thought I was watching my son re-tolex one of my heads, ??? TWINS!. Great videos. 33% Engineer, 33% artist and 33% master of using opposable thumbs to their full ability. Keep the video coming. I am looking for RestoMod videos. I took my daughters Crate BX100 Combo and re-engineers the chassis to a Marshall 2555 style head cabinet and a twin 2x15 cab. I wish I had listen a little closer to your comment about the 3M 77 loosing adhesion under hot conditions.
Stew Mac sells a brush on adhesive. I prefer it. I have read people using a water based adhesive from lowes or home depot. The original adhesive used in the 50's was melted on a stove and that too is available and is probably the best thing to use, however, over soaking adhesive on cloth will show through the cloth. The 3m stuff is ok but is soft in my opinion and flexes under the tolex. Its not a hard adhesion. With the amp heating up like a stove its gonna be even more flexible and gummy.
Thanks, enjoyed this video. I think I am going to try and recover an older Fender Evil Twin Head I have...I didn't really know where to start until I watched your video.
Great video, brotha. Thank you very much for putting this up. The final product looks awesome. Im thinking about cutting that droopy part off of my 3120 and retolexing it and putting a new grill on it.
man dude you are amazing, if i could id send my 5150 out to you and redo it in RED vinyl, but even if i could i dont have the money lol and again excelemt job man im not a fan of white but that 5150 looks beautiful.
Nice job man! This is what I’m going to do to my 6505MH. Looks pretty simple to do and going white Tolex also. I’m in the middle of a HESU clone 2x12 vertical cab also and will be white Tolex. Going to look sick
If the glue used to bond the original Tolex is contact cement, sanding isnt necessary at all. Dried contact cement can be "reactivated" by simply reapplication of a new coat of adhesive. The new adhesive "activates" the old adhesive on the wood surface, This applies to contact cement from a can that is rolled or brushed on for application.
nice job! I've heard its bad to touch tubes with your bare hands because the oil on your skin can actually make them fry and explode, but you touch them with just your hands. Is it not true?
Very nice job, bro. That was a fascinating video. Now I'm eyeballing my Fender Blues Jr...I think I could dress that thing up! Maybe I'll practice on my old Crate combo first.
I have a PedalPad pedalboard that has grey speaker carpet on it and I would like to recover it with vinyl. How hard do you think it would be to remove that type of carpet? Do you have any suggestions on its removal? Nice job on your head cab. I appreciate your tutorial.
Removal of dried contact cement by sanding with an orbital type sander is an expensive task due to the glue "loading" or gumming up the sandpaper. A better but more time and labor intensive method is to use lacquer thinner. A wide blade putty knifeis used to mechanically remove the old adhesive. Use gloves and proper ventilation, no open flame or smoking either is recommended. Any questions? Hit me up, I have been repairing, building, and designing speaker cabs and amp racks since 1980.
Great Job! I was hoping to do this on my Acoustic 4x10 cab, but was a little worried about difficulty. On a Cabinet, is there anything in there that would be difficult to take off? I've never done this before. Thanks!
Great step by step vid thanks for uploading. just got an original crate BV120, works great but cosmetically pretty rough. doing it in a purple tolex and painting the badge, and corners super florescent yellow, and ordering neon yellow knobs. should look pretty wild once I'm done.
@@jegr3398 Haha…thanks man, I actually watched that a long time ago when i retolexed an old Marshall 4x12. But i only did the back panel cuz i was scared of the rounded edges. I still have it too…lol. Yeah that’s a great video I think ill rewatch it and get the courage to do the classic 30. Its an amp deserving of real tweed, not that vinyl fake tweed they put on. Fantastic amp. Thanks again for the reminder.
Nice job. lol carefull with that router. Snag yer sack and it's all over. I am recovering a 5150 combo in Blonde tolex to compliment the vibro king. Going to use a water soluble adhesive that brushes on. Get it anywhere. i usually clamp a pressure plate into all the angles of say a Fender cab as it has a ton of 90 degree angles and the typical adhesive doesnt hold it in those tight angles. I have even used thin layer of flooring adhesive in the angles of these things.
@killersoundz Yes, yes that would do it. :) I'm going to try doing a Champion 600 but there are no corners and the seams will need to be perfect (which will be a challenge for me). Thx again.
I realize this video is pretty old, but I was wondering if you renotely recalled the tolex dimensions required. Hoping to order some tweed to do mine soon.
thank you so much for this! i really would like to try to do this now! curious though, can you do a video on how to replace the mesh grill on something like a marshall?
I want to retolex my Peavey Classic 30 combo amp. It has vinyl tweed tolex,but i want to install authentic cloth tweed. This video helped, but I feel like there’s more folds involved in mine,thus making it more complicated.Not too mention cloth tweed is harder to work with. Wish you could’ve shown how to make proper corner folds. Shit, this is stressful.
How do you get fabric off of Speaker cabs? I want to replace the fuzzy crap (cat scratch fabric {I got the speakers at a great price}) I want to put Tolex on the 2 cabs. They sell cords for sanders, drills and other tools at Ace Hardware on the shelf not sure if Home Depot has stuff like that. I would suggest to replace the complete cord no splice one in or use a cord cap
Great work. Seeing the seam come together so perfectly was a thing of beauty. LOVE the finished product Tuxedo look.
I was shocked that line looked so clean
It's a shame those negative comments appear at the top. You have done a SUPERB job my friend. I am inspired to re-tolex my 2x12 marshall cab myself now, I may even do my 4x12 if that goes well. I'm good with a craft knife and have an eye for a pattern. Something I would never have considered before seeing this. Thank you.
Wow, never thought a 5150 could look so pimped out. Great job dude! You've inspired me to attempt this procedure on my 5150II!
Great seam on the bottom. I tense up and cringe on project steps like that. You made it look so easy, but as you mentioned, you have to caress and persuade those parts of the process. Excellent craftsmanship!!!
Amazing!
This is priceless for people who wants to learn how to tolex (like me).
I'm starting my first head cab build soon and this will surely be helpful.
Thanks!
My buddy and I are talking about decking our amps out in Clemson orange and purple. This is a fantastically perfect video for us. Mad props bro
Aaaah! I like Peavey more and more every day! :o)
I played a great Fender valve amp, yellow cloth, chrome chassis, all valve, tag board assembly, sounded the mutts nuts. Then I found the Peavey name on the back. I was actually in shock - They now make amps the way Fender should be doing it. This thing was brand new and sounded like the best vintage Fender - and I've played a few!
Thanks for this. Kinda looks like my wall-covering skills will help me get the job done. I was unsure about some things. I am now confident I can get some decent results. Thanks again.
I regret watching this video because now I am going to have to try this. DAMN UA-cam!
Great work!
Good job! Lots of patience and practice required to accomplish what you just did! Thanks for sharing!
You make it look really easy, without any flaw. Good preparation with sanding and stuff... I guess it's not that easy to actually do it from zero to final step. I think about re-tolexing one of my amp and ended up on your video, thanks for the tuto.
This is so satisfying to watch. I'm about to wrap my Hughes & Kettner. Thanks for the video, nice job.
ignore him...for me this is perfect...why should we waste time for something that are not gonna show? plus, stock cabinets do have those corner pieces, so it means that even the master craftsmen didn't bother to waste time on perfecting their tolex cut on their products...you've done a perfect job, and now i'm gonna retolex my cabinet to, thanks to you...
Nice job, this is pretty much exactly how I recover cabs too - the removal of the old glue is required to ensure you get a good clean bond, plus the old glue would cause lumps under the tolex if left. I use petrol and a wallpaper scraper to get the excess glue off, then finish with an electrical sander. I also use a sander for the corners, but a router would indeed be quicker (I just don't have one). My current recover head cab (JCA100) is getting done in the same cream levant you've used.
Thank you very much!
You don't know how much this video will help me with my new project!
Excellent video!
Damn dude you made that look hela easy and it looks badass.
That amp looks WAY better; you did a great job.
Thank you recovered crate gt1200 halfstack crocodile skin fake white with gold over all bumps turned out awesome
You made that heat look f'ing fantastic. Great job.
Very real life job.Well done i reckon. Im about to re-cover a sixties Fender twin reverb.This will be my first re-cover job. Your video will certinly help.
I know this is from 7 yrs ago, but im about to install a cloth tweed cover on my Peavey Classic 30. Being my first tolex job, im wondering if you found any helpful videos or tips to share? Thanks
Very nicely done! I was way to lazy to film my video and used stills instead. You did a great job!
great tutorial. finished product looks pro.
this video has given me enough confidence to try this project myself, thanks!
Looks really good in white, nice job.
A fine job. A mighty fine job. You've inspired me to try this myself.
Great job .. one comment though .When you take the tubes out . Put the same ones back in the same jacks .. for many reasons ..good job ..
Excellent job man!. Thanks for posting too. I am planning to do the same with my
JCM-800 2210. Its got the red tolex and its fairly beat up since the 80's. Seems to have the same build as this 5150. Keep up the good work!
Great job - well done !
I'm thinking about doing this with an old Fender 75 head - dont think I could match your expertise !
Man that is beautiful to watch! Thanks for sharing, really appreciate it.
everyone has their inputs and disagreements. but you did the job and did it well.
That's awesome. I'm just gonna cover everything with tolex now!!!!
wow! the 5150 in White looks awesome!
Love the white with black hardware! Awesome job Bro! Would like to do my boogie head white with tan wicker!
Very cool. Nicely done!!
Thought I was watching my son re-tolex one of my heads, ??? TWINS!. Great videos. 33% Engineer, 33% artist and 33% master of using opposable thumbs to their full ability. Keep the video coming. I am looking for RestoMod videos. I took my daughters Crate BX100 Combo and re-engineers the chassis to a Marshall 2555 style head cabinet and a twin 2x15 cab. I wish I had listen a little closer to your comment about the 3M 77 loosing adhesion under hot conditions.
Definitely very helpful! You make it look so easy.
AMAZING VIDEO!!! Just what i needed! Gonna re-do my Bugera 6262 in white =D x
Stew Mac sells a brush on adhesive. I prefer it. I have read people using a water based adhesive from lowes or home depot. The original adhesive used in the 50's was melted on a stove and that too is available and is probably the best thing to use, however, over soaking adhesive on cloth will show through the cloth. The 3m stuff is ok but is soft in my opinion and flexes under the tolex. Its not a hard adhesion. With the amp heating up like a stove its gonna be even more flexible and gummy.
Thanks, enjoyed this video. I think I am going to try and recover an older Fender Evil Twin Head I have...I didn't really know where to start until I watched your video.
Great video, brotha. Thank you very much for putting this up. The final product looks awesome. Im thinking about cutting that droopy part off of my 3120 and retolexing it and putting a new grill on it.
Well done bro! It was very helpful. Thx!
I especially love the disco music in the back ground. Nice!
Nice job! What you could have done is to wipe off the dust on the amp unit...;D no need to bias the tubes after re-installation?
Great job on the whole thing but that seam was perfect!
Very impressive job! Well done! How did take the measurements for the tolex?
man dude you are amazing, if i could id send my 5150 out to you and redo it in RED vinyl, but even if i could i dont have the money lol and again excelemt job man im not a fan of white but that 5150 looks beautiful.
Awesome thanks a lot, are they still selling the 5150? If yes, please specify where. Thanks again
Groovy tolex background music! Thanks for the video.
Nice job man! This is what I’m going to do to my 6505MH. Looks pretty simple to do and going white Tolex also. I’m in the middle of a HESU clone 2x12 vertical cab also and will be white Tolex. Going to look sick
If the glue used to bond the original Tolex is contact cement, sanding isnt necessary at all. Dried contact cement can be "reactivated" by simply reapplication of a new coat of adhesive. The new adhesive "activates" the old adhesive on the wood surface, This applies to contact cement from a can that is rolled or brushed on for application.
Thanks, its done nice.
Nice work. And very instructional.
You make it look so easy
Nice job. Im considering re tolexing a Vox ac-30. Bought at a great price but its road rashed.
@mad4mtl I concur. I'm now subscribed purely on the strength of this video, simply fantastic!
And the Kerry King sucks video is hilarious too.
nice job! I've heard its bad to touch tubes with your bare hands because the oil on your skin can actually make them fry and explode, but you touch them with just your hands. Is it not true?
Looking excellent! 🤘😬
Very nice job, bro. That was a fascinating video. Now I'm eyeballing my Fender Blues Jr...I think I could dress that thing up! Maybe I'll practice on my old Crate combo first.
I have a PedalPad pedalboard that has grey speaker carpet on it and I would like to recover it with vinyl. How hard do you think it would be to remove that type of carpet? Do you have any suggestions on its removal? Nice job on your head cab. I appreciate your tutorial.
Nice vid, thank's! Instead of drywall compound though I'd use fiberglass filler, bondo, or polly filler.
Someone in the year 2050 is gonna see this and say, "omg he's recovering an original 5150?!!!"
slightlyslippy lol!
Nah, they'll never stop making em.
i guess I'm kinda off topic but does anybody know a good website to stream newly released tv shows online?
@Edison Payton i would suggest FlixZone. Just search on google for it :)
@Jadiel Marvin Definitely, I have been using FlixZone for years myself :D
Removal of dried contact cement by sanding with an orbital type sander is an expensive task due to the glue "loading" or gumming up the sandpaper. A better but more time and labor intensive method is to use lacquer thinner. A wide blade putty knifeis used to mechanically remove the old adhesive. Use gloves and proper ventilation, no open flame or smoking either is recommended. Any questions? Hit me up, I have been repairing, building, and designing speaker cabs and amp racks since 1980.
Looks Great.. Not sure I would use white with how clumsy my band is moving my gear :)
Great Job! I was hoping to do this on my Acoustic 4x10 cab, but was a little worried about difficulty. On a Cabinet, is there anything in there that would be difficult to take off? I've never done this before.
Thanks!
Great step by step vid thanks for uploading. just got an original crate BV120, works great but cosmetically pretty rough. doing it in a purple tolex and painting the badge, and corners super florescent yellow, and ordering neon yellow knobs. should look pretty wild once I'm done.
Did you end up doing this? Id like to see how it looks if so!
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awesome job would love to see you do one where the corners arent covered by the covers
Great job can I do it on a speaker ?
Excellent tutorial!! Very helpful.
Damn the whole reason I clicked on this video was for the corners
butchered corners, but he got the job done 😂
I got the corners down now 👍
@@jegr3398
That’s exactly why i came here too,were the corners! …lol. Any tips?
@@Boogieplex Check out Uncle Doug's video on tolexing a cab 👍
@@jegr3398
Haha…thanks man, I actually watched that a long time ago when i retolexed an old Marshall 4x12. But i only did the back panel cuz i was scared of the rounded edges. I still have it too…lol. Yeah that’s a great video I think ill rewatch it and get the courage to do the classic 30. Its an amp deserving of real tweed, not that vinyl fake tweed they put on. Fantastic amp. Thanks again for the reminder.
Awesome work dude! I would like to do this with my amp, but I´m not sure where can I get some camo vinyl.
Nice job. lol carefull with that router. Snag yer sack and it's all over. I am recovering a 5150 combo in Blonde tolex to compliment the vibro king. Going to use a water soluble adhesive that brushes on. Get it anywhere. i usually clamp a pressure plate into all the angles of say a Fender cab as it has a ton of 90 degree angles and the typical adhesive doesnt hold it in those tight angles. I have even used thin layer of flooring adhesive in the angles of these things.
great work, I am definitely inspired to custom cover some of my cases now!
GREAT JOB ALEX - Just one thing - Are those corners for show or are they not for show?!!
impressive! how many hours did it take to do this?
@killersoundz Yes, yes that would do it. :)
I'm going to try doing a Champion 600 but there are no corners and the seams will need to be perfect (which will be a challenge for me). Thx again.
Hey man, love the video! You don't happen to know where to pick up the 5150 amp Grille and 5150 Logo do you? Thanks in advance
It's Jack Black! Good guide man, thanks!
I realize this video is pretty old, but I was wondering if you renotely recalled the tolex dimensions required. Hoping to order some tweed to do mine soon.
Thanks man. It looks great. Now to start my Traynor!
This video helpt me a lot when I was starting to build cabs and headshells myself, so thanks a lot for the great video ;)
professional job
Looks great dude!
Beautiful job.
thank you so much for this! i really would like to try to do this now! curious though, can you do a video on how to replace the mesh grill on something like a marshall?
you did a good job, even i want to try. have you thought of doing this as a business?
Hey thanks for the vid dude it inspierd and hellep me to do my amp. I just did my randall rh 100 half stack in red vinyl cheers bro!
I want to retolex my Peavey Classic 30 combo amp. It has vinyl tweed tolex,but i want to install authentic cloth tweed. This video helped, but I feel like there’s more folds involved in mine,thus making it more complicated.Not too mention cloth tweed is harder to work with. Wish you could’ve shown how to make proper corner folds.
Shit, this is stressful.
Good vid but why do you go from your office floor to your garage floor, to your WORKBENCH and then finish on your couch?
Oh and the bit... what size is the bit? I dont understand is the radius itself half inch or is the shank half inch.Thanks!
Nyce!! Great amp choice too
AWESOME JOB !!
Nice Job. Very informative. Thanks!
You didn't clean the dust off of the chassis before you put it in that nice new shiny white cabinet.
nice work man! looking good!
Hey alex this is so tempting im surely gassing it up (GAS) but first im gonna apply it to a lil amp
WHats the round over routers model? And how much do these things cost usually?
that looks really nice! great tutorial :)
good work dude! makes me wanna try to do it!
How do you get fabric off of Speaker cabs? I want to replace the fuzzy crap (cat scratch fabric {I got the speakers at a great price}) I want to put Tolex on the 2 cabs. They sell cords for sanders, drills and other tools at Ace Hardware on the shelf not sure if Home Depot has stuff like that. I would suggest to replace the complete cord no splice one in or use a cord cap
Great job dude
Nice job man. Looks great!
This looks so good dude!