My suspicions were correct, I was looking at an angled BW with VERY tatty vinyl and a blackpainted grill. What I could tell from the outside was that there was atleast one hole in the upper left triangle which indicates a 100 or Bass cab if it has the speakers to match. I talked to the guy who I usually talk to when I´m there, could I maybe buy just the cab? If so I wanted to come back in and open her up to see whats really in there and age it as well as I could.
Said and done, walked in there today. Serial# was 25005 if I remeber correctly, had the triangles on the lower inside baffle corners and 4 T1281 speakers w 102 014 cones in good cond all dating november ´69
. Could only inspect cones from the back as I didn´t dare ruin the gaskets pulling the speakers out but I couldn´t see any tears and they sounded amazingly good!Paid just over 900 bucks for it and I´m picking it up tomorrow or thursday. Don´t need another cab but couldn´t resist at that price, the speakers alone should fetch 1000-1500 or more if I decided to sell them.
Anyway, didn´t post to brag, although I´m really stoked. As I said the vinyl is tatty, so I´m gonna go over it and save what can be saved by gluing the bigger, loose tears down and leave it at that. Same goes for the gold piping, which in some places is just string at this point..
The grill however might be salvageable by flipping it as long as the paint hasn´t fully saturated it. I have regrilled other cabs (reissues) before using scumback instructions (which are really good btw!) with great results! So Q #1, whats a good, safe way to remove the speakers without ruining the gaskets? Q #2 If the grill isn´t salvageable do you reckon i should leave it black? Regrill w salt´n´pepper? Pinstripe it with that nice looking, but very expensive repro from EC Collins? Q #3 Has anyone tried reissue magnetcovers on vintage speakers? I remember reading that they are deeper..?
Jake
