Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum

Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: southpaw13 on March 04, 2003, 01:28:11 pm

Title: Cabinet Vinyl
Post by: southpaw13 on March 04, 2003, 01:28:11 pm
Hello everyone, besides the stock cabinet vinyl covering found at Happ and Wico, has anyone else found some colored ones?  I also found a nice cherry wood vinyl at a speaker company, but it is only 2 ft wide (good for cocktails).  Any other leads?
Title: Re:Cabinet Vinyl
Post by: rampy on March 04, 2003, 02:01:33 pm
Hello everyone, besides the stock cabinet vinyl covering found at Happ and Wico, has anyone else found some colored ones?  I also found a nice cherry wood vinyl at a speaker company, but it is only 2 ft wide (good for cocktails).  Any other leads?

do you mean laminate? if so what about home depot?

not that you are using the term incorrectly, but when I think of vinyl, I think of the "soft"-er covering (like what eightbit has on his control panel)

could you clarify?  I know 1up used yellow laminate for his pac themed rotating cab of death...

*shrug*

rampy
Title: Re:Cabinet Vinyl
Post by: rhd on March 04, 2003, 03:12:45 pm
Are you talking about the indestructable stuff they cover guitar amps with? Its called Tolex and there are lots of sources for it. Here's one:

http://www.jenkinssoundshop.com/html/tolex.html

Thanks,
Rob
Title: Re:Cabinet Vinyl
Post by: Brax on March 04, 2003, 03:24:17 pm
Are you talking about the indestructable stuff they cover guitar amps with? Its called Tolex and there are lots of sources for it. Here's one:

http://www.jenkinssoundshop.com/html/tolex.html

Thanks,
Rob

Hmm, whatdya think? Wicker or Red Elephant for my cab?
I'd love to see someone with the nads to do that. Would be fun to pick on them hehe
Title: Re:Cabinet Vinyl
Post by: brandon on March 04, 2003, 06:08:26 pm
Are you talking about the indestructable stuff they cover guitar amps with? Its called Tolex and there are lots of sources for it. Here's one:

http://www.jenkinssoundshop.com/html/tolex.html

Thanks,
Rob

Hmm, whatdya think? Wicker or Red Elephant for my cab?
I'd love to see someone with the nads to do that. Would be fun to pick on them hehe

You WILL fear my red elephant MAME cab!!  hehe ;D
 hmm.. I wonder how that would look on my marshall 4x12 cab...  :-\
Title: Re:Cabinet Vinyl
Post by: CitznFish on March 04, 2003, 06:10:36 pm
wow..their website went down fast!   :-\
Title: Re:Cabinet Vinyl
Post by: Distortion on March 04, 2003, 09:22:29 pm
Are you talking about the indestructable stuff they cover guitar amps with? Its called Tolex and there are lots of sources for it. Here's one:

http://www.jenkinssoundshop.com/html/tolex.html

Thanks,
Rob
indestructible?  Dude, I was in a band, i've seen everything possible happen to that stuff.
Title: Re:Cabinet Vinyl
Post by: southpaw13 on March 05, 2003, 02:42:44 am
Yes, definitely looking for vinyl, not laminate.  Cool stuff for the speaker coverings.  Is it the peel and stick kind?
Title: Re:Cabinet Vinyl
Post by: Dak-ak on March 05, 2003, 06:23:34 am
my marshall has not held up to gigging... but i don't think anyone will be dropping the arcade cabinet off of stage risers... ;-)


red elephant, get some purple tmolding... it would be *pimp*... or gay...

it would say something strongly

~Dak~

Title: Re:Cabinet Vinyl
Post by: Brax on March 05, 2003, 10:16:00 am
my marshall has not held up to gigging... but i don't think anyone will be dropping the arcade cabinet off of stage risers... ;-)


red elephant, get some purple tmolding... it would be *pimp*... or gay...

it would say something strongly

~Dak~


Don't forget the pink faux fur on the control panel top!!!! Oooooooo!

That would be so ridiculous it would be cool! ;)
Title: Re:Cabinet Vinyl
Post by: rhd on March 05, 2003, 12:34:11 pm
It might be cool to build a cab to look like a Marshall JCM stack. Use the Marshall logo instead of a marquee...have a volume knob that goes to 11...brushed brass control panel...
Title: Re:Cabinet Vinyl
Post by: eightbit on March 06, 2003, 09:31:43 am
That stuff looks like what I have on my Control Panel. The vinyl on my panel is not spongy like some people seem to think it is. It has very little give to it.
Title: Re:Cabinet Vinyl
Post by: brandon on March 06, 2003, 04:11:27 pm
It might be cool to build a cab to look like a Marshall JCM stack. Use the Marshall logo instead of a marquee...have a volume knob that goes to 11...brushed brass control panel...

hmm... that does sound cool... it could double as an MP3 jukebox also...
Title: Re:Cabinet Vinyl
Post by: rhd on March 07, 2003, 11:47:31 am
You're right...it would be great for a juke box. Of course you'd have to go with four celestion 12s to be true to the concept.
Title: Re:Cabinet Vinyl
Post by: rampy on March 07, 2003, 02:01:23 pm
You're right...it would be great for a juke box. Of course you'd have to go with four celestion 12s to be true to the concept.

heh... celestians are awesome (for guitar cabs, that is)... although i'd go with something else for general purpose jukebox speakers, the frequency response of the celestians is why they sound good for guitar - but also make them less suitable for general music amplification... (i know you were kidding - I'm just being goofy)

Rampy
Title: Re:Cabinet Vinyl
Post by: rhd on March 07, 2003, 02:30:37 pm
You're right...it would sound a little midrangy. Plus after all those years standing in front of a marshall stack I can't hear midrange anymore. Maybe some piezos and an Altec A7 would even out the sound a little better. Of course you might get a few complaints from the neighbors...