Repro Marshall style metal handle, fits 71 and later Marshall cabs with plastic handle bolt pattern & cab cutout.
Old vs New
Original Marshall metal handle is on the left, Scumback Speakers reproduction on the right.
As you can see the finish is spot on, and the six bolt holes are there, along with the chrome handle.
The new handles vs the Marshall plastic handle.
The new metal handles are sized for a direct fit into cabs from 1971 to present using the plastic Marshall handle. The bolt holes are the exact same size and spacing. You can easily take off your busted plastic handles and bolt these into the same place using machine screws and T-nuts, wood screws or rivets. You could also retrofit your Handwired Marshall, Orange, or Sound City cabs for the proper look with the thicker metal, and knowing you can't bust the corners on these.
Installation will be easy:
All you'll need to do is drill out your existing handle's rivets with a 1/4" drill, and right through the wood of the cab, so no new holes are going into your cab to affect the structural stability, you'll just complete the hole the rivet started at the Marshall factory.
Then you'll use a pair of pliers to press in 10/32 T-nuts in the holes you just drilled the rivets out of from the inside of the cab. Since the old handle will be out, you don't have to take off your back panel at all, since there's a handle hole there already with plenty of room to work with. Channel locks or a hammer will also work to fit in the T-nuts.
Then place the handle over your cab's new handle holes, and screw in the 10/32 machine screws with a drill or philips screwdriver.
That's all there is to it.
UPDATED! Marshall style reproduction metal handle kits!
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Re: Marshall style reproduction metal handle kits!
Great idea, Jim!!! But what will I do will all these broken plastic handles?
Maybe you should approach marshall with the idea. They apparently still haven't been able to figure out that their handles suck.
Maybe you should approach marshall with the idea. They apparently still haven't been able to figure out that their handles suck.
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Maybe the plastic handles are recyclable. That way you'd at least get some $$$ back out of them after they break.Sparky wrote:Great idea, Jim!!! But what will I do will all these broken plastic handles?
Maybe you should approach marshall with the idea. They apparently still haven't been able to figure out that their handles suck.
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Re: Marshall style reproduction metal handle kits!
That is excellent news Jim .
Just means I am going to have to invent a time machine to be able recover those two cabs I have lying around and use your handles for the 70s one
Can you let me know how much to England for a pair, thanks
Just means I am going to have to invent a time machine to be able recover those two cabs I have lying around and use your handles for the 70s one
Can you let me know how much to England for a pair, thanks
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Re: Marshall style reproduction metal handle kits!
10/15/09 metal handle repro update.
Ok, a custom pierce and trim tool has to be made for this handle to match the hole pattern I wanted (same as the Marshall plastic handles from 71 to present), so I'm sending off a four figure check to get that made.
That takes four weeks.
Then the 500 handle order takes four weeks.
Then it takes four weeks to float the handles over here from Asia, or wherever.
So I won't see these until mid-January at this point.
I've never understood why it takes so long to get this stuff together...sheesh!
Ok, a custom pierce and trim tool has to be made for this handle to match the hole pattern I wanted (same as the Marshall plastic handles from 71 to present), so I'm sending off a four figure check to get that made.
That takes four weeks.
Then the 500 handle order takes four weeks.
Then it takes four weeks to float the handles over here from Asia, or wherever.
So I won't see these until mid-January at this point.
I've never understood why it takes so long to get this stuff together...sheesh!
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12/23/09 Metal Handle Update...my first sample of the finished product arrived last night.
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Re: UPDATED! Marshall style reproduction metal handle kits!
The actual finished sample pair of handles came in last night (finally!).
Comparison pics below.
New handle
Old vs New
Side view of old and new handles
Plastic vs New
Comparison pics below.
New handle
Old vs New
Side view of old and new handles
Plastic vs New
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