60s-70s vintage 4 x 12 Guitar Speaker Cabinet

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This one needs some description - please read on.... I have refurbished this cab following the end of my gigging days (which peaked in the late 80s...). The cab was well used and battered when I got it with ripped tolex and painted grille cloth, but has always since I've known it had the same Goodmans Audiom 12PD 50W speakers, a classic 1970s speaker used in Vox, Laney & Orange amps among others, in this case Burman. One of the speakers still has a Burman XP5012 label on but is one of 3 relabelled Audiom 12PD (and if you don't know just how good Burman amps were, you need to find out). The fourth speaker is a later model Audiom 12P without the whizzer cone. Now for the cab - note that it doesn't have the usual 4 x 12 grab handles on the side, and that the top shows holes where strap handles located on to T nuts which are still in place. Understandably, lifting a 4 x 12 with strap handles never caught on and every 4 x 12 I've ever seen had grab handles fitted, apart from this one. I never did fit them and I'm pleased because the only 4 x 12 design I can find reference to without side handles and with top strap handles was a mid 60s one from a well known company beginning with M and now based in Milton Keynes. I can't say for sure if this is one of theirs, but it's solidly built from 5/8 birch ply (including the baffle and back) and read more

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