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Uh-oh: Guess what I did!
A Tube 120 just came up on Kijiji and I made the guy an offer (about $220 US dollars); he accepted.
It has the original tubes, but he had the board replaced this year. I figure it was a pretty good deal. Now I have to get to work customizing it (Oh Dalrymple, have any suggestions?)
It nearly fills the back of my Nissan (!)
I wiped the dust off with a damp rag; it was still wet when I took the pics:
And the baby Vypyr for comparison:
Cheers!
Gary
It has the original tubes, but he had the board replaced this year. I figure it was a pretty good deal. Now I have to get to work customizing it (Oh Dalrymple, have any suggestions?)
It nearly fills the back of my Nissan (!)
I wiped the dust off with a damp rag; it was still wet when I took the pics:
And the baby Vypyr for comparison:
Cheers!
Gary
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Freaking awesome! You now own the King of Vypyrs! Your biggest problems will be; A. Chiropractic care. B. Lack of incentive to play through any other amp, ever. I have the 120 head, and almost wish I had the 212, just because of the speakers and cab making it just right. My cab is a tad woofy, but will move vehicles across the garage. You dont have to play it any louder than the 30 to FEEL the difference. Headroom for cleans galore.
Looks to be in good shape, too. Rare as hens teeth, the tube versions. Great price too. SWEET!!
I'd go for tolex, grill cloth, knobs, just like I did on mine. Make it yours. Dress her up for the big show. Dont change the acoustics.
Where's the BEEF? Gary's meat locker!
Dalrymple
Looks to be in good shape, too. Rare as hens teeth, the tube versions. Great price too. SWEET!!
I'd go for tolex, grill cloth, knobs, just like I did on mine. Make it yours. Dress her up for the big show. Dont change the acoustics.
Where's the BEEF? Gary's meat locker!
Dalrymple
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Sa-WEET! And you kept the fangs. Love the gator look. Wow. Seriously.dalrymple wrote:Freaking awesome! You now own the King of Vypyrs! Your biggest problems will be; A. Chiropractic care. B. Lack of incentive to play through any other amp, ever. I have the 120 head, and almost wish I had the 212, just because of the speakers and cab making it just right. My cab is a tad woofy, but will move vehicles across the garage. You dont have to play it any louder than the 30 to FEEL the difference. Headroom for cleans galore.
Looks to be in good shape, too. Rare as hens teeth, the tube versions. Great price too. SWEET!!
I'd go for tolex, grill cloth, knobs, just like I did on mine. Make it yours. Dress her up for the big show. Dont change the acoustics.
Where's the BEEF? Gary's meat locker!
Dalrymple
I guess in regards to the chiro-care, splitting it up into a head and a 2 x 12 would help with the medical bills... it's almost like I HAVE to do it. Right? If I do split it up (and you KNOW I will), I'll build the box to the same specs as the open space in the current combo: That ought to guard the acoustic properties reasonably well.
At the moment, I'm thinking red tolex with white piping (another Canadian special edition, eh?) but the look of yours with that skin on it is making my teeth sweat. Hmmmmm....
Headroom for cleans? Uh-oh, that means that I'll have to move beyond the "Guitar Center Warrior" level and learn to do something other than sweep pick with the distortion cranked up to 11
I haven't even plugged it in yet @ home, as I've been busy tolexing the 1x12 slant-cab. I should remedy that....
Cheers!
Gary
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Just my 2 cents, but I wouldnt take it apart. You already have a head/ cab set up. The head weighs a ton, so you wont save all that much weight. Most of it is in the head.
You bought it; Grunt it about! If you're not gigging regularly, you wont need to be moving it all that often anyhow. It's such a rare bird(I have never actually seen one), build something for your incredibly understanding wife, save time and $ and just dress that beast up. YMMV, but if I ever see one, I'm buying it. I love the head and my Tube 60. Folding cart!
Have fun.
Dalrymple
You bought it; Grunt it about! If you're not gigging regularly, you wont need to be moving it all that often anyhow. It's such a rare bird(I have never actually seen one), build something for your incredibly understanding wife, save time and $ and just dress that beast up. YMMV, but if I ever see one, I'm buying it. I love the head and my Tube 60. Folding cart!
Have fun.
Dalrymple
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Thanks again for the sage advice. Maybe, just maybe, a matching 2 x 12 to sit underneath and take advantage of the extension jack...dalrymple wrote:Just my 2 cents, but I wouldnt take it apart. You already have a head/ cab set up. The head weighs a ton, so you wont save all that much weight. Most of it is in the head.
You bought it; Grunt it about! If you're not gigging regularly, you wont need to be moving it all that often anyhow. It's such a rare bird(I have never actually seen one), build something for your incredibly understanding wife, save time and $ and just dress that beast up. YMMV, but if I ever see one, I'm buying it. I love the head and my Tube 60. Folding cart!
Have fun.
Dalrymple
Yeah: New skin and a new 2x12 plinth for it to sit on. That's the ticket!
Hey, if I decide that I can't handle this thing I can give you a shout: If shipping isn't prohibitive, maybe you need this more than me (have to give me some time to learn to hate it, though (grin)).
Cheers!
Gary
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm: I'm not sure that this is an improvement. First defang job I've seen that didn't clearly look better.
I must ponder this (while I plan a wild customization that will make this whole thought process moot anyway)....
The logo looks crooked in the photo, but not in person. Odd.
I must ponder this (while I plan a wild customization that will make this whole thought process moot anyway)....
The logo looks crooked in the photo, but not in person. Odd.
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I have been following your work and it all looks great. However every Peavey logo I ever seen is tilted upward. Not that this matters sense your photo looks good.GaryMadore wrote: The logo looks crooked in the photo, but not in person. Odd.
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You are absolutely right: stock Peavey "lightning bolt" logos like I've been slapping on the stuff I'm goofing around with are angled up from left to right... I've never seen a level one either.wmjones wrote:I have been following your work and it all looks great. However every Peavey logo I ever seen is tilted upward. Not that this matters sense your photo looks good.GaryMadore wrote: The logo looks crooked in the photo, but not in person. Odd.
I did the first one level on the amp head because there wasn't room to angle it (at least not and have it look right) so I thought about using a smaller logo. And then I thought that I kinda liked the way it looks level. I'm still undecided.
Now that you've mentioned it, I think I'm going to pull them off and angle them when I get home from work today and see how it looks. Luckily, the 2 cabs don't have speaker cloth on them yet so I won't have to worry about nasty holes in it.
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Gary
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2nd reply: Yep, you were 100% right. I angled the logs on the midi-stack project and the Tube120 and they look much better to my eye. Thanks for the motivation.wmjones wrote:I have been following your work and it all looks great. However every Peavey logo I ever seen is tilted upward. Not that this matters sense your photo looks good.GaryMadore wrote: The logo looks crooked in the photo, but not in person. Odd.
I think the T120 still looks bare without the fangs, but I'll be remedying that in short order....
Cheers!
Gary
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I'm a fan of the fangs, personally. They are what makes it a VYPYR, and not a box. Here's one of my most treasured projects. It puts the fangs right in yer face, where they belong! Think about how much better this amp must sound over one with only a single set of fangs? Mind boggling!!! lol
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Brother, that is amazing looking and you've made me a believer!dalrymple wrote:I'm a fan of the fangs, personally. They are what makes it a VYPYR, and not a box. Here's one of my most treasured projects. It puts the fangs right in yer face, where they belong! Think about how much better this amp must sound over one with only a single set of fangs? Mind boggling!!! lol
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If I may be so bold as to offer a suggestion, why not put one set upside-down at the bottom? (them there Peavey plates will flip without modification) It wouldn't be a VYPYR anymore, but you'd be the only kid on the block with a Peavey SHARK! (Not SHARC....)
Yeah... Shark. I like it. And we'd name the different models after different sharks, based on looks and characteristics.
And if you did a Tube 120 in white tolex, and did the "SHARK Mod" with the fangs, it'd be the Great White.
Heck yeah!
I should have kept this under my hat and patented it....
All fun aside, I wanted to get 2 more sets of V30 "fangs" for my midi-stack project: I wanted it to still be all Vypyr, including the 2 1x12 cabs I was bummed when I couldn't get any (posted here on the forum and expected lots of traffic due to all the de-fanging, but no joy. So I bought a ton (8) of the lightning logos instead).
Cheers!
Gary
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2 30 watt fangs? MIGHT have that around, I'll look. 1 for sure.
Shipping just got more expensive.
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Shipping just got more expensive.
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Hold off, amigo: Let me go home and see if I can even put them on the cabs as constructed. I discarded the idea when I couldn't scare up any extras.dalrymple wrote:2 30 watt fangs? MIGHT have that around, I'll look. 1 for sure.
Shipping just got more expensive.
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Stand by....
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I'm sorry Uncle D: I know I promised to keep it a combo but I just couldn't.
Little voices in my head and all that... you know how it is.
Anyway, I built a new box for the chassis today. I haven't decided whether to top-mount it (as it is in the pics) or pull the transformers and tubes, mod the heck out of it, and bottom mount it (like I did for the V30 project). As it sits, it can go either way, as the cab doesn't have a top or bottom yet: I can just unscrew the chassis, flip it (after pulling xformers and tubes), and screw it back down.
It's all reversible though, and I'm keeping the original box stock. I promise. For reals this time!
(those aren't gaps between the box and the side-cleats: they're marker lines)
Here's the tubage glowing (yeah it fired back up after I pulled it all apart and reassembled it today (!)) from the front - so this is what will be visible through the screen I'm building into the faceplate.
Ahhhhhhhh: TOOBS! Beautiful glowing toobs....
It's sitting on top of the old combo box and wired into the 2 stock speakers. Sounds great.... like it did before I starting dicking around with it.
(that's my son's "drum kit" from Rockband 4 that you can see through the cab)
Cheers!
Gary
Little voices in my head and all that... you know how it is.
Anyway, I built a new box for the chassis today. I haven't decided whether to top-mount it (as it is in the pics) or pull the transformers and tubes, mod the heck out of it, and bottom mount it (like I did for the V30 project). As it sits, it can go either way, as the cab doesn't have a top or bottom yet: I can just unscrew the chassis, flip it (after pulling xformers and tubes), and screw it back down.
It's all reversible though, and I'm keeping the original box stock. I promise. For reals this time!
(those aren't gaps between the box and the side-cleats: they're marker lines)
Here's the tubage glowing (yeah it fired back up after I pulled it all apart and reassembled it today (!)) from the front - so this is what will be visible through the screen I'm building into the faceplate.
Ahhhhhhhh: TOOBS! Beautiful glowing toobs....
It's sitting on top of the old combo box and wired into the 2 stock speakers. Sounds great.... like it did before I starting dicking around with it.
(that's my son's "drum kit" from Rockband 4 that you can see through the cab)
Cheers!
Gary
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Looks like a great start. You got this.
I am selling a Marshall 1960A 412 top cab for a friend. I was just playing my Tube 120 head through it. It is phenomenal sounding. I was surprised that the Celestions in it sounded so good with the modeling. Even the cleanest of tones sounded great, and the Twin sounded like a Fender Twin to me for the first time EVER.
Too bad it's so dang big. Great cab, great tones, great fun.
My 212 sound nearly as big, and I can actually move it. I compared, side by side, and mine sounds great. But the Marshall.....just too dang big.
What an amp! Gonna be fun.
Dalrymple
I am selling a Marshall 1960A 412 top cab for a friend. I was just playing my Tube 120 head through it. It is phenomenal sounding. I was surprised that the Celestions in it sounded so good with the modeling. Even the cleanest of tones sounded great, and the Twin sounded like a Fender Twin to me for the first time EVER.
Too bad it's so dang big. Great cab, great tones, great fun.
My 212 sound nearly as big, and I can actually move it. I compared, side by side, and mine sounds great. But the Marshall.....just too dang big.
What an amp! Gonna be fun.
Dalrymple