Part 1: Chassis and Cabinet

Instead of purchasing the full kit straight away, I decide to buy just the chassis and the Plexi control panels so that I could get the cabinet design sorted out first. The cabinet is made from pine - actually 28 mm tongue and groove flooring. Very easy to work with.

Pic above shows the basic pine wood frame, roughly finished. Once it was sanded a bit and smoothed off, I applied Marshall type tolex to it using a spray-on adhesive, from a local builder supplier, very similar to Evo-Stik. The tolex was then tacked down at the edges on the inside using a staple gun.

Pic above shows the case covered in Tolex. Once the glues was all dry, I checked it by lining up the chassis to make sure everything was OK. It all looked fine, so the next stage was getting the rest of the kit ordered and digging out the soldering iron....