Wrapping Over Tolex- Guitar Amp

Lots of 3M Super 77 or 90. Can't remember which, it's been about 15 years since I build my last speaker cabinet. I was never able to perfect the seamless wrap, so I always had a seam in the bottom left corner.

 

Oohh. I don't know. I think we always painted and used a paint stencil. Probably need a really thin cast/lam.

 

I haven't experimented much, but I've used 3M IJ180CV3 and even that began to peel.

 

The way most amps get beat up, I'd highly doubt much of anything would stay on for very long.

Years ago, when playing in bands, our amps mostly faced the audience, along with the drums and leslie tone cabinets, so we put a very lightweight painted up piece of canvas on the front, which at the volumes back then would sometimes wave at the crowd. My leslies were just hand-painted with stuff. First band I was in (in the 60s), the bass player had a Kustom amp with 2 18's and some empty donuts just to let air escape..... couldn't do anything to that. Not the way they were built. That tolex stuff is meant to resist a lotta things, from cigarette burns to beer to vomit, so I doubt vinyl'll stick very long.

 

I think it will work fine. There are stickers and graphics adhered to tolex covered guitar cases all over the planet. They don't just fall off.

 

I think a low energy vinyl - a vinyl designed for plastics may hold on well.

 

I had a 4/12 kustom cab tolex removed for my guitar player years ago ( he had beat the snot out of it in and out of his truck) and then had rhino liner sprayed on it. Then I had fabric printed with band logo and replaced fabric in front of speakers. Sucker was bullet proof and the sound got really fat!

 

Yeah, that makes more sense. Remove that crap and put something good on there. You'll get vinyl to sick to the flat surfaces, but I highly doubt you'll get any corners to stay down on tolex.