Slip covers for speaker cabinets?
August 22, 2011 3:25 PM Subscribe
How/where to order custom protective fabric sleeves for a pair of speaker cabinets?
Here's a nice little problem to solve: I have a new pair of guitar speaker cabinets for which I'd like to get custom covers made. I'm not looking for full-on ATA road cases as those would be overkill for the casual jamming I'll use these for, but I'd like something to keep the cabinets from being scratched when I load them in my truck. I'm envisioning covers that are something like the zippered sleeve for my laptop, but sized for a pair of 1x12 and 2x12 cabinets. Scratch protection but not crush protection. I'm also open to the idea of using closing straps or Velcro instead of a zipper if that proves to be too expensive or hard to get right.
The cabinets look like this. The 2x12 is approx. 15" X 13" X 30", the 1x12 is approx. 15" X 13" X 15".
I'm trying to Google this and I'm drowning in search results. Even searching for this on Etsy is proving to be a challenge, as I'm not sure what to search for.
Any thoughts or suggestions on where to go for something like this? Bonus points if you have a rough idea about what I might expect to pay. If having someone else make them proves to be too pricey I'd like to source the material and make them myself...but only if I can figure out what material to ask for.
Here's a nice little problem to solve: I have a new pair of guitar speaker cabinets for which I'd like to get custom covers made. I'm not looking for full-on ATA road cases as those would be overkill for the casual jamming I'll use these for, but I'd like something to keep the cabinets from being scratched when I load them in my truck. I'm envisioning covers that are something like the zippered sleeve for my laptop, but sized for a pair of 1x12 and 2x12 cabinets. Scratch protection but not crush protection. I'm also open to the idea of using closing straps or Velcro instead of a zipper if that proves to be too expensive or hard to get right.
The cabinets look like this. The 2x12 is approx. 15" X 13" X 30", the 1x12 is approx. 15" X 13" X 15".
I'm trying to Google this and I'm drowning in search results. Even searching for this on Etsy is proving to be a challenge, as I'm not sure what to search for.
Any thoughts or suggestions on where to go for something like this? Bonus points if you have a rough idea about what I might expect to pay. If having someone else make them proves to be too pricey I'd like to source the material and make them myself...but only if I can figure out what material to ask for.
Response by poster: Wow, we may have a new record here, folks.
That's a very promising site. I'm not going to mark this as "Answered" yet because I want to see what else people come up with, but damn, that's about what I had in mind. Thanks!!
posted by mosk at 3:46 PM on August 22, 2011
That's a very promising site. I'm not going to mark this as "Answered" yet because I want to see what else people come up with, but damn, that's about what I had in mind. Thanks!!
posted by mosk at 3:46 PM on August 22, 2011
Response by poster: The second site on that list was pretty promising, too, and pretty much exactly what I had in mind.
Time to email for some quotes.
posted by mosk at 3:54 PM on August 22, 2011
Time to email for some quotes.
posted by mosk at 3:54 PM on August 22, 2011
Response by poster: Thanks, jeb! Using your suggested search terms I found exactly what I was hoping to find from these guys. Goes to show that it's a lot easier to find what you want when you know what it's called, lol.
posted by mosk at 5:13 PM on August 22, 2011
posted by mosk at 5:13 PM on August 22, 2011
This thread is closed to new comments.
posted by jeb at 3:39 PM on August 22, 2011