Recent content by RollingBender

I’ve done this and I found leather actually much easier to work with than traditional covering. It stretches and can be compressed to hide a variety of cutting errors. After much experimentation, I found that plain wood glue is the best adhesive for applying leather to a cabinet.

Well then… the experimentation shall begin. The cabinet has been cut out and dry assembled for a year so it’s time to glue it together. The shell is 3/4” clear pine with half blind dovetail joints. I’ll glue that up and then install cleats front and back so both can be removable. I have front...

My self inflicted size constraints are following my previous AB763 in a carry on suitcase build. https://www.tdpri.com/threads/seems-like-i’m-doing-this-backwards.1015555/ Now I am building a cabinet for my 18watt Super Lead to fit the same size constraints...

The cab I’m building is a single 10” and has the internal dimensions of 16-1/2” wide, 11-1/2” tall and 6-1/2” deep. Yes, the goal is to get a bit more bottom end.

We have the open back tweed cabinets with their lively, thin speaker baffles. Wondering what a sealed speaker cabinet with the same type of baffle would sound like? How about a lively, thin back on the cabinet also?

Recent photo of replacement knob for our clothes dryer.

WOW!!! I never even bothered to look it up.

It’s a standard 9-pin, a little shorter than an EL84. Don’t know what it could be used for but would be fun to have it in something.

At the gas station today…

“If you can’t pi$$ off your back porch, you’re living in the wrong house” Marty Stuart (a very rock-n-roll quote from a country guy)

The Minnesota Twins can’t sell beer at their stadium this season….they lost the home opener.

Some names from my family tree… G grandfather’s first name… Volquart Surname about 7 generations back that I’m thankful not to have… Crapser Coolest name… Soleme Krecke

I’ve had multiple experiences going to check out a tonewheel Hammond the owner claimed to not work only to find that they were unaware of the starting procedure.

I got back into playing out just as C19 hit. We are fortunate to live near 2 states that did not impose much in the way of restrictions so the gigs came. I knew my wife wasn’t thrilled about my return to the stage so I set it up that my band income would go towards my teenage daughter’s...

80% of my band’s setlist has been mentioned in this thread….