Craigslist Has Been Very Good To Me Lately

[Torren61]

I posted earlier about the Crate VC5212 for which I traded a Peavey bass and $150 cash. Cleaned up and re-tubed with Russian 6P14P-EV (military spec EL84s) and JJ ECC83S tubes. That deal was just a bit in my favor by about $100 (my estimation). Then I snagged the 1968 Traynor Bass-Master YBA-1 head with the vintage tubes for $100. I re-tubed that one as well as wired in a three prong cord. Sounds really good through my computer but too loud with a guitar through a 2X12 cab.

THEN, today, I got a call from a CL woman who was selling a Fender 1X15 cab. The thing has coasters, built like a tank and is loaded with a Fender (Eminence) 15 inch speaker. I drove up, checked it out and left with it for $40 cash. Brought it home, cleaned it up, painted the grill and wired in a temp input jack. Then I plugged in the Traynor and demoed my 1973 Fender Precision bass. WOW! It's actually useable through this cab and not nearly as loud as with a guitar and a 2X12 cab.

THEN I ran a cord from the extension speaker output of my Crate VC2110R into the Fender cab. OMG. With your eyes closed, you would think I was plugged into a 30 watt combo. The 15 inch closed cab makes the most of the head or is that vice versa? It sounds HUGE. I will probably never use it's ten inch speaker again.

Thanks CL!

 

[Kac]

Re: Craigslist Has Been Very Good To Me Lately

Pics of the new cabinet?

 

[Torren61]

Re: Craigslist Has Been Very Good To Me Lately

Pics of the new cabinet?

Thanks for asking, lol.

I'm having one of my hair brained ideas. I need a cab for the Traynor. I can strip the tolex from the Fender cab, cut a rectangle hole in the top of the cab, drop the Traynor into that (it's sitting on the cab upside down now, plus I measured), build a cab around the top of the head, get some new grill material for the speaker and head cabs, have the whole thing recovered in new Tolex OR... get this... leather, swap the speaker for something waaaay cool and I have just built a SWEET guitar/bass combo. I can get a new face plate and add a Ford "Thunderbird" logo from a sixties T-Bird. Waddya think?

 

[Kac]

Re: Craigslist Has Been Very Good To Me Lately

Looks awesome!

 

[Torren61]

Re: Craigslist Has Been Very Good To Me Lately

Thanks! Hey, if you see Jesse, tell him I'm rooting for him. (Breaking Bad/New Mexico reference)

 

[zzmoore]

Re: Craigslist Has Been Very Good To Me Lately

Wow.....those were some Great Deals alright. I search CL 4-5 times a week, and never see Anything like that :-(
That Traynor was a deal of a lifetime.
The Fender for 40 bux .....what can you say...the cab is worth that.
PLUS.....with the built in coasters, you will always have a place to set down your Coca-Cola glasses , and not have to worry about water marks