Retolex amp and cab project

[beerandbeards]

Started a new project. I’m going to retolex my Mesa Mark V25 and my Mesa 1x12 thiele cab. Purchased seafoam green bronco and beige can grill cloth.

today I disassembled the amp and cab. Not too hard but now the hard part... removing the existing tolex. I’m using a heat gun to soften the glue and peeling it off. I started removing the tolex but tomorrow’s another day.

 

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Also my friend is going to make me a new faceplate. I was going to do a new grill cloth but he has some nice figured wood so it’ll be more of the customized Mesa headsView media item 3940View media item 3941

 

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All tolex removed

 

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sanded both amp and cab. Now I’m just waiting on the tolex and grill cloth

 

[wheresthefbomb]

Looking good! How was it getting the remaining adhesive off? I tried to take the rat fur off of my X100b cabinet, I was going to sand and finish it but there was a ton of nasty adhesive leftover. I put 6 coats of chalkboard spraypaint on it and called it a day.

 

[beerandbeards]

Looking good! How was it getting the remaining adhesive off? I tried to take the rat fur off of my X100b cabinet, I was going to sand and finish it but there was a ton of nasty adhesive leftover. I put 6 coats of chalkboard spraypaint on it and called it a day.

I used my orbital sander with 80 grit. I was able to remove everything pretty easily without taking wood away. I couldn’t imagine trying to hand sand it.

there didn’t seem like a ton of adhesive after I removed the tolex. Just like a thin layer

 

[beerandbeards]

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the tolex and grill cloth arrived today. Installed the grill cloth because it’s super easy. Tomorrow morning I will begin the summit of this project which is the actual application of the tolex. Wish me luck!

 

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Almost done!