Anyone ever de-carpet an Avatar?

It would look like a plywood box with glue on it...

Here's a picture of my former Acoustic 360 (that was covered with leopard print vinyl when I got it (you can see a strip under the head's handle)) before I recovered it in black.

I recovered a Hartke 4x10 that I had, but I don't seem to have pictures of it...

Once the carpet is off and the remaining glue removed, you could recover it with tolex (vinyl) or truck bed liner...or whatever.

 

If the vacuum doesn't clean up your cabinet, you can use a clothing lint roller or some reverse rolled masking tape to get pet hair and stuff out of the carpet. Crusty stuff can be removed with a stiff brush and smoke smell with Febreeze (sp?).

 

I've never removed carpet from an Avatar cab, but one of my wife's cats has...

There's a spot where you can see bare wood and it's just that - regular old, naked plywood. The cab's sitting in a corner at a rehearsal space right now or I'd snap a digi pic for ya.

That cat now lives outside. Bet you can guess why.

 

Lots of gig-goo and kitty-clawing is the reason that I recoved the Hartke 4x10. I bought it used and tried to clean it up before bringing it in the house...between the crusty stuff (including candle wax), kitty's claw marks and the odor, it was just easier to peel the carpet off and recover it.

Quite economically and quickly done with 3M spray adhesive and Parts Express cabinet carpet.

Removing the carpet would be easy...just find a seam and start picking at it. It takes longer to remove the hardware, speaker, etc. than it does to skin the box.

Be carefull removing the speaker(s) so that you don't stab the screwdriver through the cone ruining your day (and damaging your speaker).

 

"Quite economically and quickly done with 3M spray adhesive and Parts Express cabinet carpet."

I bought some of the carpet from Parts Express. It is charcoal gray and not black.