Members SexWithRobots Posted September 21, 2012 Members Share Posted September 21, 2012 My buddy has an old Trace Elliot super tramp 2x12 and its pretty beat to hell and heavy as hell. If you can find the headshell is it possible you think to take the chasis out of the combo and put it into the headshell so he could use with his 4x12 cab? Like such: into Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NewRiggins Posted September 21, 2012 Members Share Posted September 21, 2012 from the looks of those two I'm guessing you'd have to turn the 212 chassis upside down. looks like the actually bothered to make 2 different chassis for that instead of just turning the graphics the other side up ala peavey valvekings. notice the switch and inputs positions: I have the VK100H, bastards didn't even bother turning the switches right-side up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members knucklefux Posted September 21, 2012 Members Share Posted September 21, 2012 nope, the combo is upside down compared to the head. best bet is to find somebody to build a headshell for the combo so you can keep it oriented the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tedmich Posted September 21, 2012 Members Share Posted September 21, 2012 chop it off and screw a piece of pine on the bottom, retolex if ur analretentive but surely you're not concerned with resale value eh?? "Rare TE Supertramp head for sale, $2200 OBO" LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members HKSblade1 Posted September 21, 2012 Members Share Posted September 21, 2012 You can do what others do with Fender and Marshall combos I've seen. Cut down the cabinet combo down to size you want and remove the bottom board and reattach to the now smaller cab to make it look like a head version. Use an Xacto blade to score the tolex and it comes out much cleaner than just sawing it down. A former guitar mate of mine just used a table saw. Removed the amp chassis, speaker, cab corners first Then he measured and cut the tolex where he wanted the new headshell height.. Cut the cab L side, flipped it over cut the R side, and then removed the lower cabs bottom plate. I stood there and watched him do this in about 30 minutes. He ended up re tolexing the entire thing because he wanted the cab tolex to match the headshell tolex (going from tweed color to black). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SexWithRobots Posted September 21, 2012 Author Members Share Posted September 21, 2012 I mean its a solid state head with a tube preamp so moving the chasis to the top of the head cab wouldnt be a big deal there wouldnt be a bunch of tubes dangling down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mesa/Kramer Posted September 21, 2012 Members Share Posted September 21, 2012 Most people do hacks jobs converting Combos to heads etc. Make it look right or dont do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members iloveespguitars Posted September 21, 2012 Members Share Posted September 21, 2012 Most people do hacks jobs converting Combos to heads etc.Make it look right or dont do it. this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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