Changed the Piping Color and redid the faceplate.

I received a request from my friend to change the piping color back to the original spec of white along with making the piping not follow the face plate all the way down on the side of the amp.
Today I went to the fabric store to pickup some white vinyl for the piping. Since the speakers are also going to have piping I decided to get all three pieces cut and sewed up. Here's the white piping, I think my white balance was a tad off in this pic.

In order to redo the front piping. I needed a different faceplate. This new face plate has a relief cut in the back side in order for the amp to fit snug against the sides of the amp head cabinet. The previous face plate had the amp sitting rearward a little in order to take into account the thickness of the piping running down the side. This new face plate without the piping running down the side needs to be flush. This morning I made the new faceplate and at this point had applied the contact cement a few hours prior.

Attaching the Tolex to the new faceplate.

Some of these corners are tricky. I'm just learning to just wing it and hope for the best. It's kind-of like wrapping a present in some ways, but you can't have an overlap of two thicknesses of Tolex because there's no contact cement on the top of the Tolex for a overlapping layer to stick to. Here's the white piping. I trimmed the piping to the desired width, and now I'm tacking it into place using small tacks. This is the top right hand corner.

Now the fun part. Since the face plate protrudes, there is no place for the piping to basically go after it hits the face plate. Scratching my head I came up with a solution. By cutting a trench in each side of the cabinet. I can get the piping to "disappear" while at the same time the amp will still fit flush. Now I could have just continued the piping up and tacked it to the back side of the face plate board, but then the amp would hit the piping and there would be a gap on each side of the amp, so the the amp wouldn't then be able to fit flush with the sides of the cabinet.

Point of no return now!

Ouch, that was hard to do.

And the right side.

Here you can see how the piping is able to fit in the trench that I dug out. I then used a few tacks to keep the piping in place. You can't tell from this pic, but the faceplate will fit flush against the backside here.

Here's the Tolex faceplate installed. There's a subtle difference in the way the piping disappears between the left and right hand side. At some point I'll redo this, but the clock is ticking on this project.

Here's the final product. I think my friend was right. The two changes were worth it in the end.

The white piping makes it POP visually.