How to Build a Solid-Pine Head for a Fender Twin Reverb with Dovetails 

This is like visual potato chips. I couldn't stop watching! Awesome and beautiful work.

The most talented people are the most inspiring because they make it look easy.

Awsome build! Allways loved the separate head and cabinet.. it splits the weight ... and when the speakers are in an enclosed cabinet that just sounds so much more thick and full-bodied!

Nice job!!! I use the same jig to cut my dovetails, but I get chipping on the exit side. Now I try to rout from the “far side” inward towards me first, then finish going “away from me. But you don’t get chipping at all! Impressive.

"We got wood" -Nice, yeah, you'll need it for.. "We got the dog" -OOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I've built two cabs with the help of a friend who knows more than I do. Felt pretty good about it. Watching this makes me see what we are missing. Nice job. BTW went with the varnish too.

Can’t believe I stumbled across this video. My dad wired a Blackface Twin kit and built a head and extension cab. Was one of the last things he did before unexpectedly passing. It looks eerily identical to this.

That’s beautiful work! I love that natural wood look.

Thank you. I will never, ever, complain again about the price of a custom made cab. Well done.

That inspires me to make a new speaker cabinet. Excellent craftsmanship and attention to detail.

What a great deal for a beautiful vintage head and cab. New ones go for that without the beautiful wood work.

Brilliant job on that. Glad you didn't wrap it because it would've just looked like a reissue or refurb of the reverb. Now we can see your artistic skills. I had a brand new Super Reverb I sold back in the 70s and I still regret it. "Keep On Truckin'!"

That is jam up and jelly tight ! It may be more practical to wrap it,..But I think it would almost be a friggin crime to cover up that beautiful wood. Use a sanding sealer and then go with a satin clear finish.. The cab and the head are absolutely BEAUTIFUL !!

So addictive to watch! I saw it more than 5 times!! Thanks for the post! Great work Adam!!

This is one of the most coolest and bad ass things I’ve seen

Tweed on wood great skills nice job cab & head very gorgeous congratulations my friend

wow, that looks bad ass man! I didn't know what to think of those dove tails at first but after a few minutes it all came together, you're a wood genius man.

Dropped it off a 3 story building yesterday, aint broke and still works.

Rad, I'm glad you kept the wood exposed, looks great.

The CORRECT way to do cabinetry. Well done..............Sweeeet!

Man, I tell you- I'd love to hear a voice over explaining what you are doing. Already really instructive though! Thanks!

Lovely work. Looks great.

CONGRATULATIONS. A true masterpiece.👍👍👍

Great work Adam, looks fantastic

"Don't know if I'm gonna finish it or wrap it." The I remembered the word "dovetail" in the title. Right then, I knew you weren't gonna wrap it. Nice work, Adam.

Looks fantastic how easy you do a complex thing! Thanks!

Now try this: pull out 2 of the 4 power tubes, either the middle 2 inside ones or the outer 2 outside ones, NOT 2 adjacent tubes. Now the amp is around 50 watts instead of around 100 watts. It now also wants to “see” an 8-ohm load instead of a 4-ohm load. With Fender amps, you can usually safely go up or down in ohms but only one level. So an amp that “prefers” an 8-ohm load could go to 4 or to 16 but not to 2-ohms. An amp that needs a 2-ohm load could go to 4 only. Run that now 50-watt twin into a single 8-ohm speaker (or 2-16ohm speakers or the original speaker set-up but it won’t be the ideal impedance match), It will be much easier to carry and you‘ll be able to turn it up and hear the power tubes working.

Beautiful craftsmanship!

That's awesome, I'm actually doing the same thing for a 67 blackface, doing it in blonde/ Oxblood to match my cab.

What a great project I think any guitar player would like this! I wish I could find an old Fender Deluxe Reverb I lost mine years ago in a house fire, best amp I ever had! That would be a great project!

WE GOT THE DOG!!! the best help

I made a pine cab in 2004. The dovetails were that tight I didn't bother knocking it apart again to glue it. It's still in one piece 17 years later. I didn't use tolex, it's too much work just to make it look like every other cab. Natural wood looks much better anyway.

Beautiful! Ive got a Ampeg B25 head that needs to be recovered, but the way you have constructed this tongue and groove, natural wood grain looks awesome.

Hi Beck....wonderfull project! very well done and clean, solid, just beautiful.... But you should have refurbish the original cabinet... to preserve the Fender Legacy...thank you for showing your skills....Antonio Alçada

Great Carpentry !!!! Thanks! I need that dovetail jig !

Gorgeous.

Nice Job! My wish list has my Twin head in a recessed box so that the knobs don't get raked off during transit.

Beautiful work, very nice! Maybe you can buy a few "build your own" amp kits and fit them to your heads/cabs.

you could also use some moving straps to reinforce the square mold

It looks really good.

Nice work. Really enjoyed to watch this video.

This is gorgeous.

That beautiful!

Looks nice, really like the dovetails!! I like to made my cabs from MDF & cover them with veneer, its denser.

Really enjoyed this video, nice work.

Looks fantastic, nicely done! I love the look of the exposed wood... much nicer than most tolex in my opinion :-)

Holy cow you are fast. I’m going to start drinking coffee again.

Superb craftsmanship, beautiful result. Can you post a video of how you made the jig for the dovetail joints? I am very interested because I just bought a Quilter amp but decided to make a speaker cabinet for a 15" and 12" speaker, to make it sound like a Solid state Fender Bassman which I returned, not because it didn't sound great, but because it is too heavy to carry up and down 3 flights of stairs.

Excellent video, it looks great!

That's pretty slick!

superb job mate, really enjoyed watching!

Beautiful job.

Me watching this video @3am getting to 10:00 "Good God! Hundreds of headphone users will die.. " You editing this video in 2016 .. "Thousands."

Nice work for sure. Dang!

I really enjoyed this video.

Man I love select pine

Very nice work, been thinking about doing mine similar too yours

Beautiful job!

So nice man. Just perfect.

That. Was beautiful!

Awesome build... i would not use warped wood though..

Super cool!

great job

Looks great! I'm sure it will sound great too. Now you need to build a nice road case to protect it. Unless you want to sell it. I would buy it is heartbeat if you were interested. Great job thanks for the vid.

Love your tutorial man! Would’ve loved it more if you would’ve added a narrative on the steps you were doing while you were putting it together.

It would be interesting to post the weights of the finished separation. My Twin with EV's is at least 70 lbs. and rarely leaves the studio.

Nice job!!

Very nice work

this is awesome! Has inspired me to make my own!

Looks like some good clear Radiata or Monterey Pine? Enh maybe not. Looks a bit green. That isn't poplar is it?

yea man, thats what im talkin' about right there! good work!

You probably noticed it sounded different with the lower volume cabinet. And the speakers are not level to each other for a reason.

Los "dientes gruesos"no deberían estar trabajando a favor del plano de madera más grande?

This looks beautiful, although as a minor personal preference thing; I would have went with a tweed color grill cloth.

i could of used you just made my carvin vintage 16 combo in to a head it works well but it's not even as close to nice like yours great job

well done !!! enjoy it ! Ohio should be proud of you.

BEAUTIFUL.

Bueatiful man! Good look for the twin!

Fantastic

I learned the hard way to not keep metal rulers near the blade of my saw.

How did you get the front top edge of the cabinet rounded? Is that a different router bit? Thanks, great video

Very nice

Hello mate. The contribution is very good, I saw that the head has no advantage, does the fender amplifier work well, or did it focus?

You should have minimized the gluing footage and talked more about the construction which you did at the end!

Clean.

Amazing work mate 👍✌️👌🏽

Love it. Wish I could do this!

I would have stained it darker but this is so badass

very beautiful.

Great work my friend, I wish you were my neighbour.

that was awesome man! congrats!

I love you work, sir! More good content, views and subs to your channel!.

Beautiful!

Wouldn't it seem advisable to leave openings behind the head's grill cloth, too, to enable some air circulation? As the head's cabinet isn't that spacey inside it might help to avoid too much heat inside. I'd guess that would contribute to longer life of tubes and other parts in there, wouldn't it?

nice job looks real solid, but not all of us have access and the skill to do this, also more time should have been spent on the video showing how you mounted the amp in and rear views of the amplifier and back panel.

buttiful work !

Did you have a problem with noise when you installed the reverb pan? I built a Princeton in a head, but when a friend who knew what he was doing checked it out, it was because the pan was too close to the transformers. Even a couple inches seemed to make a big difference. I sort of figured that's why the Bandmaster Reverbs have such ridiculously tall head boxes...

Nice job... Excellent.

I'm almost finished my Amp Speaker box(weathers been shitty). What did you use for the Speaker mounting screw holes?

sorry for the F'd up, strike-thru post.... IDK WTF I even DID, to pull THAT off?