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My two cents:
One thing you may want to think about as far as re-covering the
cabinet is 'vintage value'. As soon as you take the black tolex off
it's value will go down no matter how beat up it is. what I would do
is have a new cabinet made, or make one yourself, replace the face
plate and knobs to what you like. Keep the old stuff so you can
always bring it back to original. But, if you don't care about the
value, that's another story.
There's a cabinet maker here in Buffalo who's pretty good. I've seen
a Princeton with a 12" in a custom cabinet that he made & covered. I
almost bought it but how many Fender Amps does one need? The other
guitar player in my band had him make a cabinet to turn a Bassman
into a 'combo' with a 12" speaker. I can get his name and number for
you if you like.
As for more punch and bottom I like gmcgrory's ideas of making a Mini
Showman or a mini stack. Personally I'd rather have a 12" speaker or
two in an the enclosed cabinet. And I like old Jensen's the best.
Concerning 'headroom', if you mean getting a clean sound at a higher
volume, I'm not sure how much you'll get with the output section of
the Princeton. I would move up to 6L6s for that. But if you've got
an effiecient speaker, you may get what you want.
Good luck, have fun, hang 10
Russty
--- In , Steven Jarvis <sjarvis@s...>
wrote:
> A 12" will fit, but it's a bit tight. I've owned another Princeton
> before that had a 12" and it worked just fine. That one had a
custom
> baffle made for it, though.
>
>
>
> On Dec 2, 2003, at 12:53 AM, gmcgrory@a... wrote:
>
> > I don't think a 12" will fit in the Princeton cabinet. I'd check
mine
> > but
> > it's late and I'm just too lazy to go double check. OK even I
can't be
> > that lazy.
> > In theory it would fit but the strength of the baffle might be
> > compromized
> > there wouldn't be too much wood at the top & the bottom. Which
is
> > probably why
> > the Deluxe Reverb is an inch taller.
> > You might want to try something that I tried a few years ago.
Make a
> > 15"
> > extension speaker cabinet that is 20"x20"x10" and make a mini
stack.
> > That way you
> > get the high end bite of the stock 10" and the big bottom end of
the
> > 15." It's
> > been a while but I think it was a pretty good combination.
> > As far as the recovering-DIY. Teach yourself by making the
extension
> > cab and
> > then tackle recovering the Princeton. If you really want to have
fun
> > turning
> > it into a cream tlex mini surf machine go all the way and make it
a
> > mini
> > Showman with a separate head and cab.
> >
> >
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