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| Cabinets All cabinets built at Cartlton guitars are hand crafted and built to last a lifetime. I don't use laser cutting, cheap joining methods or urethane glues which expand to fill gaps in bad joinery. You can sit your fat arse on one of my cabinets [thats if you have a fat arse] and be assured it is not going to collapse or start getting wobbly. A lot of my cabs go out without tolex as users will look at the craftsmanship and just don't want to cover it up with a cheap layer of plastic. Shown below are some of the cabinets built here for clients wanting to house boutique handbuilt amplifier chassis. I can arrange a chassis to be commissioned, built and then fitted into one of my hand crafted dovetailed cabinets. The cabinets are built here in my workshop from premium timbers using traditional joinery techniques. Marine ply is used for rear and front baffles, stainless steel screws and bolts are used throughout, Clients BYO their own chassis they have either built or sourced from elsewhere. more detail at right: Brown Deluxe clone - TV front Cabinet |
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| See a Deluxe combo cabinet being built here |
| See the Mesa Boogie project build log as shown below |
| Mesa Boogie Mk1V short head and EV 12ML in TS806 [Thiele] cabinet |
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| Joinery The through dovetail method of construction used is the strongest method of building a cabinet. It requires no bracng, glued in fillets, screws or nails to hold it together. I wiegh 115 kilo's :( and have no hesitation setting my fat bum down on of these cabinets for a nights playing. Timber Mostly I use pine with an oil and wax finish as I believe a layer of glue and tolex or tweed takes a little resonance out of the cabinet. The pine resonates nicely and is a renewable Australian resource. Being a softwood it needs a little protection and I use Tender Loving Covers to protect the cabinet from damage on the road. Another great Aussie product. The classic Fenders of the 40's to the early 60's were built from pine. Apart fom pine any timber, exotic or common can be used. I prefer plantation grown timber as it is a renewable resource but if you have a special project in mind, there is an amazing array of beautifull imported timbers avaialble. Finishes A range of finishes is available including: Hand polished timber WB satin clear or tinted - hardwearing Textured acrylic paint - lots of bright retro colours or basic black [rockhard] Tolex or Tweed Raw - DIY finish - paint it, cover it, or relic it. I have seen guys go over a cab with a blowtorch followed by a wire brush to create a driftwood deomolition look. Cabinet configurations available Combo cabinets 1x8" - 1x10' 1x12" - 2x10' - 2x12" - 1x15"- 4x10' - 4x12" Speaker cabinets 1x10' - 1x12" - 2x10' - 2x12" - 1x15" - 4x10' - 4x12" Thiele speaker cabinet 1x12" Reproductions built to match your battered original Speakers I like lorantz and Jensen speakers and are able to supply these fitted BYO celestion, Eminence, Weber whatever. Pricing Finished cabs are priced from $350.00 eg: Champ headshell in dovetailed pine with untinted satin polyurethane finish byo chassis - chassis fitted eg: 1x10 speaker cab in dovetailed pine with untinted satin polyurethane finish - byo speaker fitted Pricing is usually POA custom jobs built to your specs. Way to0 many combinations of finish, config timber etc to list Call or email for a price on your particular requirements. 03 9762 9006 - if I don't answer please leave a message - i will call you back |
Following are some examples of cabinets built here at Carlton Guitars |
Tweed Deluxe clone
[5E3] Pine combo cabinet  |
| Brown Deluxe clone chassis in pine TV front Cabinet |
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| Valvetone combo cabinet |
These amps are supplied in a basic sleeve which usually gets plugged into a quad or twin cab. I got one in here and the first thing i wanted to do was to rush off to a jam with it. Had to lug along another speaker cab so decided to give it a new home. How does it sound.? Just magic. It is surprising how far you can go with the deceptively simple control network. There really is a lot of ground that can be covered here from bell like cleans to heavy overdrive. When you put pedals in front of this thing be prepared for screaming madness |
| This is how it arrived |
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| had a jensen neo lying around - nice flat speaker these by the way .It tells no lies adds notrhing to the tone, takes nothing away. All you hear is the character of the amp and guitar. |
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| pulled the amp out of the head cab |
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| had a peep inside - wow look at that workmanship!! |
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| Got busy in workshop for a while and tried out my new biscuit joiner.
This tool allows me to knock a very strong cab up in double quick time.
Not as cool as dovetails but biscuit joining does shave quite a bit off
the building process. Here is the new house I built for the ValveTone Tio - 18 watts of pure kick arse. |
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| From the rear - you can see it is a closed open back cab. :) |
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| A closer look at rear accessibility |
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| If you want to give your valvetone a new home lets know |
| 5 watt Headshell South American Mahogany Finish - polished and sealed |
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| Champ 5F1 Headshell American Oak, Solid hide handle, steel corners Oil & wax finish |
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25 watt Deluxe clone
combo in pine with BSM ply front and rear baffles,
Oil & wax finish
Sporting a Mojotone chrome reproduction steel chassis, NOS oxblood / yellow pinstripe grill, solid hide handle, steel corners and stainless steel bolts and screws throughout. Speaker is a Jensen Neo 12" Pine is what Leo used in the 50's originals. It is light, very resonant and gives a great tone |
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5F4 Super clone combo in
Brazil Pine - oil and wax finish Mojotone chrome reproduction steel chassis, NOS oxblood / yellow pinstripe grill, a "no animal died" handle, steel corners and stainless steel bolts and screws throughout. Twin lorantz 50 watt 10' speakers |
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Solid mahogany
dovetailed 1x12 combo powered by single ended Class A Champ clone chassis - Etone 12" 4ohm speaker- Around 6 very healthy watts. |
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Deluxe
[5E3] Dovetailed Brazilian pine Cabinet. Lorantz 50 watt greenback clone speaker. NOS Oxblood/yellow grill cloth. Stainless steel screws and bolts throughout. Solid hide leather handle. |
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Pine 1x12 with
Lorantz 12" 50 watter BSM ply rear and front baffles Solid hide tweed style handle, open back baffle, oil and wax finish. Compact open back with a punchy tone. |
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