Hoffman Amplifiers Tube Amplifier Forum
Other Stuff => Cabinets-Speakers => Topic started by: bnwitt on September 06, 2017, 11:08:40 am
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Does anyone have any drawings or links to videos for building the Vox AC15 combo cabinet? I've got one drawing at the moment.
Thanks,
Barry
Update: I found a pretty good site on building an AC30 Combo cabinet:
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/markus.breier/php/amp_ac/cab/ (http://homepage.univie.ac.at/markus.breier/php/amp_ac/cab/)
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I don't know how closely you plan to follow my AC-15 layout (or maybe not even at all), but wanted to say... My chassis will not fit that combo cab. And I have a completely different front panel layout. My front panel layout, board layout, tube line up, and chassis size have been optimized to work very well together, but if you change any one of those four elements you'll probably be disappointed. IOW, my board will work fine in my overall layout but would not work in a real AC-15 chassis. And the real AC-15 front panel layout will not work well with my board.
One of my design objectives was to improve on the poor air circulation associated with the original AC-15 design. Using the typical Fender/Marshall style layout takes care of that problem, but I ended up with an amp that does not look like the original. I'm OK with that.
So, think about this if you want an AC-15 that looks like an original AC-15.
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Steve,
As always thanks for the feedback. I do intend to use your board layout but I will be using a C channel chassis that is 6" X 20". I am custom building the combo cabinet with a Vox look but a Marshall style so to speak. See the preliminary chassis layout (not finished yet) attached. Kind of a 1x12 18 watt cabinet with a lot more tubes of course. I may have to put a small quiet fan in the back panel board to draw air across the tubes from the top vents.
As far as the look, I'm leaning toward a purple or cream Vox look. This is going to be a solid finger jointed pine box with a Baltic birch ply baffle board and valance.
Barry