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Fantastic. Huge bottom end and clarity. I love it.

Bit of a spurt on this weekend. The grill was done on Saturday and Sunday I got the centre section covered. Yesterday I re glued some edges that I deliberately left light on glue to stop to much squeezing out. I collected the corners from the nickel platers today and put those on. It’s all finished, baring some excess glue around some joints which needs rubbing off and I’ve bought some black bumper epoxy to build up the gap on the broken input plate.

Side N°2 done today and I de-stapled the old grill cloth. They weren’t looking to save money on staples at Peavey. There was approximately 300 😬. I’ve stapled the new cloth to the frame just to try and straighten it a little before fixing it properly.

Big cab, very efficient, moves big air though 😉

I had a spare few hours this afternoon so managed to get the patterns marked, cut out and one side applied. I’m very pleased with the quality of the Levant. Id painted the baffle yesterday with satin black but it’s not a consistent finish so I’m going to redo it with just a matt black. As usual I had some excellent helping from Elvis 🙄

I recently got my hands on a Peavey 3620. I’ve wanted one ever since seeing them in a 87 copy of a Peavey Monitor magazine. I’ve only seen one other in the U.K. sold on here when I searched for one many year’s ago. This one came from Manchester area. The owner collected and restored Cabs but only got around to stripping the tolex off this one before unfortunately passing away. The kick back/ wheel board had been detached, the handles, corners and jack plate all removed. First job was to glue, screw and tack the wheel board back on. It was left for a week before I attached the wheels. Next came a full strip of the drivers, grill badges and trim. Today I wanted to fill, sand and start attaching the tolex which arrived last week. Unfortunately the cab had a lot of old glue on the outside and there were a lot of scrapes and dints that needed filling and sanding after I had sanded the old glue off. Hopefully I’ll be able to start attaching the tolex this week. I’m also going to drop the corners off at the platers to get re-chromed. Fingers crossed the cab sounds as good as I hope. I’ve bought and rest many cabs and amps that I’ve previously lusted over and they turned out to be a great disappointment.

Bessie and the Zinc Buckets. Kev Charlton is your man. I’m not sure if he’s on here?

And finished. A service and Some lovely aluminium welding by a local metals company hides my ‘not perfect’ mitres. im very pleased with it.

I found a B402-A. Collected it from Edinburgh IKEA yesterday. It needed a deep clean. I put new strings on and set It up to my preferences. The active circuit is very powerful. It reminds me of the Spector Haz circuit. I’m very pleased with the Bass.

I recently joined a Deep Purple Tribute, having never really paid them much attention in the past, I was pleasantly surprised by the bass playing. Not only that but it’s given me the opportunity to gig my Rics again.

I’ve finished the aluminium profile on the lower grill. It needs the corners tightening up (it’s all one piece of aluminium like the original) so I’ve given it to a blacksmith friend who’s got a very sharp 90° angle on his vice. Mine has wooden jaws so the angle and alignment is a touch vague and I want it spot in before the corners are soldered up. The preamp has also had a service and a coupe of minor issues sorted out.

I’ve managed to get hold of a 361 rig. It’s in great nick for a 53 year old amp. A little dusty and grubby rather than damaged. I’ve given it one clean but it needs a going over with a nail brush I think. It also had the top grill missing so I’m in the process of making one. Just need to bend the aluminium frame.

its my rehearsal space, thankfully this stage required nothing that would damage the rugs. 😉

I managed to get hold of the Holy Grail of Acoustic rigs. Same as Jaco, JPJ and Bobby Vega, an Acoustic 360/361. it came without the top grill so I’ve made one and bought Some aluminium angle to make the surround with. I need to find someone to aluminium weld the corners but the grills finished. I put new cloth on the old one so they both match. gave the tolex a good clean yesterday too but it needs going over again with a nail brush to get into the contours properly. ill glue down all the tears and edges but I’m not going to re tolex this one, it’s a 1968 vintage and as they say, it’s only original once.

I’ve just returned from a trip down to Richard’s to buy his Ashdown ABM 500. A faultless deal, great communication and a lovely guy. Beautiful amp in immaculate condition. I can’t recommend Rich highly enough. Thanks Dave

I found another one on eBay. A quick trip to Edinburgh yesterday and its keeping the other one company at the studio. I only bought it as I thought it was better cosmetic condition than the first one but it’s more or less the same. This one is a little older according to the serial number.

A previously owned 301 has returned to the fold 😬