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What a good idea...………...

Mmmmmmn, how right you are, I wonder if they will damage to order?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Player-Precision-Bass-MN-Buttercream-DAMAGED-RRP-615/352694860058?epid=7020583707&hash=item521e40791a:g:IagAAOSwENVeHvxG If I was after a P bass, I'd be having a closer look at this

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/P-bass-guitar-Project/273844339767?hash=item3fc2650437:g:NVkAAOSwA-Nc2Wlm

You might find some information here, as far as I am aware, different models, or years of manufacture, used different speakers https://www.talkbass.com/threads/official-ampeg-portaflex-club.437266/

Thank you very kindly BlueMoon, it's means a lot more when a compliment comes from someone who really knows

Thank you very much Reggaebass, that's very kind of you

Nice one, I like a good music biography, should be a good read

Just spent 10 minutes watching this, about my favourite drummer. Some quite nice things said about him by his old mate Bernie Marsden. Worth a watch, it always struck me how he could swing, but still be Cozy Powell, a talented man.

Thank you kindly bertbass

The back panel is also now covered, once again I used masking tape to help to get the square pattern lined up. I'm not quite sure what kind of foam to use around the inside of the cab, where the back panel is secured into place, so I am going to try out some the heaviest duty foam strip for sealing doorframes and suchlike, which I found in Wickes. I will put it around the perimeter on the inside of the back panel and also on the inside of the cab where the bolts screw in. I'm hoping that with two thicknesses of this foam, which is quite thick, pressed together with machine screws all around the edge, it should be airtight. Please let me know if you can recommend anything better.

I must admit putting on the tolex was the part I was dreading, I have never done it before and, with good reason, I wasn't relishing the challenge of getting a reasonable result. I once tiled a kitchen floor with those brick sized tiles and although I had marked out datum lines, they didn.t quite lie parallel with the kitchen units, and your eye was drawn to it, to the point where I had to take them up and start again..(we're all a bit OCD aren't we?...……..please agree!!!!) Anyway, the checkered pattern on this tolex was a nightmare to get in line with the edges of the cab, and the problem is, you can't lie it down and then slide it about till it looks right, once the surfaces have glue on them the bloody stuff sticks like stinky poo to a carpet! I used a couple of strips of masking tape to make the lines more visible and with a LOT of trial and error got it looking square all round. I started at the top and worked around to the bottom, so that the joint would be at the bottom, out of sight. Once I got started it all went better than I was expecting and I actually enjoyed doing it. I should think doing a cab with ordinary grained tolex would be a bit easier, as you wouldn't be concerned about keeping the squares in line. I used a heat gun to soften it up around the recessed plug socket and then loosely screwed it into place to hold it down Got to clean the excess glue up a bit and then fit the corner pieces and a couple of nice leather handles on the top. Today I will try to get the back panel done, it's just a flat square panel, and then stick on the spongey sealing strip.

That's very kind, thank you

Nice, is yours going to be along the lines of the MM4-T on his website?

Now it's time to apply the tolex. I managed to get this very reasonably priced on Ebay from a bloke in Germany who had some left over at the end of a renovation on a vintage cab, avoiding having to order it from the US and the additional costs involved. It actually looks dark blue in natural light, but this doesn't show up so much in photos. Looks very cool though! I have never tolexed anything before, so I am busy Youtubing before I dive in!

I routed out a recess on the side for the speaker lead Then I wrapped a load of masking tape around the socket to make a sort of border around it, to allow for the thickness of the tolex The I dropped it in place and filled in around it with wood filler. I'd like to say removing it went swimmingly, but that would be a lie. It took a couple of attempts because it kept pulling some of the filler away with it when I removed it, but I got there eventually.

A little bit further forward with this now! I finished off the front baffle, using good old McDonald's coffee stirrers as a spacer around the inside of the cab front Then put the bolts in and the wooden spacers on the back A quick coat of my favourite blackboard paint and I now just need to source some grille cloth, and it looks like I will have to get it from the US, I can't find any in Europe.

Giving this band a lot of time at the moment, particularly this album.

These look great Jimothy, what flavour wood is scaffolding board? I've seen some done on TDPRI where they used reclaimed redwood from barns, easily obtainable in the US and worked very well. This neck I used on my last build was from Musikraft and the fingerboard was reclaimed wood from the Coney Island Boardwalk, that totally blew my mind, makes me think of Springsteen or the Drifters or something...….I love the idea, sort of gives your build an extra tie, if you know what I mean. I'd like to try one from an old school desk or church pew, a bit of wood with a few stories to tell! or something