A while back I picked up an Ampeg 2x10, because as much as I loved my Harley Benton 2x12, it was too big and heavy for my fourth-floor-walkup apartment. This cabinet was made for bass, but it works pretty well for guitar too, which is actually good since it's high-wattage, and it's 8 ohms, unlike a lot of bass cabinets.
I got it for cheap, because the previous owner had re-done the tolex, and well, let's just say I think his name might have been Frankenstein, because the tolex was held together with tape and staples(!!!) which gave it a less-than-appealing look...
So I ordered some new tolex, and even though the grill cloth was in decent shape, I decided to replace that too, because I wanted to convert the cab from a vertical orientation to horizontal and the cloth would have looked a little weird. Also, no point to nice new tolex if the grill cloth doesn't look good too, right?
And it came out pretty good! My tolex work was not great, but it's certainly "10 feet good". An unusual thing about this cabinet is that it's not just closed-back, it was built totally sealed, so there wasn't even a way to remove the back panel to cover it separately. I ended up using one piece of tolex for top and sides, and one for back and bottom. It worked out OK, although I wonder if it would have worked better to use one piece for top, sides, and bottom, and one for the back. I put new feet on the new bottom, since the old feet were pretty chewed up, but otherwise I reused all the same hardware.
I was a little nervous about the grill cloth, but I think it came out pretty well - maybe not 100%, but pretty damn good for a first try. My wife, who is a professional tailor, helped me with neatly mitering the corners of the grill cloth. I added (re-added?) the ribbon loops to the end of the grill frame so you can pull it out without prying it out with a screwdriver.
And if the blue is a little loud, at least it goes with my Orange to make New York State colors!
POSTSCRIPT: now that I look around, I see that the Ampeg 210 was in fact offered in red, so maybe it was factory? But a) if that was a factory rolex job, it was amazingly bad, with the tolex peeling up, seams too near corners, etc., and b) the grill cloth it had when I got it didn't match what I see in other pictures of red ones. So I dunno.
POST-POSTSCRIPT: New York City colors, I realize now, not State. (State's colors are blue and gold.)