Anybody ever cut a Plywood back for their Marshall Cabinet?

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Anybody ever cut a Plywood back for their Marshall Cabinet?

like I said, let the clowns laugh...
(I suppose HE has a 1960's G12m-20 Plexi era cabinet)

I'm doing the best I can to get an approximation of the prohibitively expensive and rare 60's Marshall cabinet sound and all the clowns can do is walk around on their clownshoes laughing and doing silly stunts.

He who laughs last, laughs best. I'll be the one with the badass sounding basketweave style cabinet.
OOOhh yeah..We bad!

Changing the cabs back to plywood won't make it any better or worse and it sure won't make it an 80's cab as 60's cab...there are other differences but you go ahead and keep on doin what you do becasue those who are laughing about it need to keep on laughing.

There is a reason those late 60's cabs go for crazy amounts of money and if it was as easy as swapping out a plywood back then the prices on those 80's cabs would be far higher as well since for $50 they could be the same as a 60's cab...

 

[MetalManiac]

Re: Anybody ever cut a Plywood back for their Marshall Cabinet?

Changing the cabs back to plywood won't make it any better or worse and it sure won't make it an 80's cab as 60's cab...there are other differences but you go ahead and keep on doin what you do becasue those who are laughing about it need to keep on laughing.

There is a reason those late 60's cabs go for crazy amounts of money and if it was as easy as swapping out a plywood back then the prices on those 80's cabs would be far higher as well since for $50 they could be the same as a 60's cab...

I'm gonna start calling YOu Homer, and Jolly Jethro ( Lucid is Goober ). Not that i got anything aginst good ol boys, but...
i SAID i'M GOING FOR THE CLOSEST APPROXIMATION with what I have to work with. I disagree vehemently that a Baltic Birch cab. will not change the sound . It'll be different, and as to whether it'll be better is subjective, but it will be more like an old 60's cabinet de facto.
Of course thee are other differences, I'm trying to get some similarities. I suppose your having a good laugh at the Celestion Reish G12m's criscrossed with the Blackbacks also.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Anybody ever cut a Plywood back for their Marshall Cabinet?

I'm gonna start calling YOu Homer, and Jolly Jethro ( Lucid is Goober ). Not that i got anything aginst good ol boys, but...
i SAID i'M GOING FOR THE CLOSEST APPROXIMATION with what I have to work with. I disagree vehemently that a Baltic Birch cab. will not change the sound . It'll be different, and as to whether it'll be better is subjective, but it will be more like an old 60's cabinet de facto.
Of course thee are other differences, I'm trying to get some similarities. I suppose your having a good laugh at the Celestion Reish G12m's criscrossed with the Blackbacks also.

Like I said, I love this stuff...carry on!

 

[MetalManiac]

Re: Anybody ever cut a Plywood back for their Marshall Cabinet?

Like I said, I love this stuff...carry on!

Of course Metal handles are rubbish , right Homer? Plastic ones are much beter. It won't change te sound..wiat..yes it will! thats two not insignificant sized percentage wise pieces of metal in there instead of wood. Baltic Brich back anorther huge percentage of real wood and not comprressed glued fiber. insignificant.
G12m-20 reissues..okay, maybe not really old G12m-20 sounding speakers, but there IS no alternative, and if you find me an old G12m-20 that isnt blown to shreds for anything less than a fortune, I'll kiss your black a$$.
o..put a coupe old blackbacks in to balance the tone- keep it real and vintage..and yeah..this is getting more hilarious all the time isn't it?

 

[eschoendorff]

Re: Anybody ever cut a Plywood back for their Marshall Cabinet?

Make sure that you use a high quality finishing blade when you cut your plywood... you'll thank me later:

 

[SlyFoxx]

Re: Anybody ever cut a Plywood back for their Marshall Cabinet?

One thing I've noticed about this thread. Just about everybody here could do something more with their time than post so F'ing much.

We all know what's going on here. IT'S BORING! Break it up.

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: Anybody ever cut a Plywood back for their Marshall Cabinet?

One thing I've noticed about this thread. Just about everybody here could do something more with their time than post so F'ing much.

Could… should… would…

 

[GoldenVulture]

Re: Anybody ever cut a Plywood back for their Marshall Cabinet?

13 ply marine ply was very popular back in the 70's.

:cool2:

 

[Lucid_Lunatic]

Re: Anybody ever cut a Plywood back for their Marshall Cabinet?

A blue tarp and duct tape back will not only give you a gritty tone, but it will double as a place to live.

 

[JOLLY]

Re: Anybody ever cut a Plywood back for their Marshall Cabinet?

A blue tarp and duct tape back will not only give you a gritty tone, but it will double as a place to live.

But then what would he do with the storage container?

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Anybody ever cut a Plywood back for their Marshall Cabinet?

But then what would he do with the storage container?

Cut a plywood door for it?!

 

[Kam]

Re: Anybody ever cut a Plywood back for their Marshall Cabinet?

Don't know where it was grown...

I'd assume somewhere near the Baltic Sea. Finland, Estonia, Poland, some other countries. Russia, maybe.

Unless it's been cultivated elsewhere in the world. I dunno.