Myself and guidothepimp have decided to build ourselves a head each as a project, he's looking at the valve route and I'm looking for solid state. However to go along with this I've decided to build myself a angled cab as well as a straight faced cab. Why so much overkill?
Because I can.....lol and because I have 8 speakers and a tonne of wood just lying around.
I've been building car audio systems and club cabinets for cars, bakkie, trucks and clubs since I was about 16 years old and even though I stopped making them a few years back, I usually take on some extra work when I need a few extra bucks.
I started with pulling down my skateboard ramp a few weeks back and decided to re-use a few of the 18mm plywood sheets for a side project of mine as even though they have been outside for the better part of 3 years, they were pressure treated and rot treated from day one and they look brand new.
The slanted/ flat faced cabs are loosly based on a Marshall M412 1960 cab. I will be posting some sizes for anyone that's interested in them. I've decided not to use any larney fancy joinery on this cab as this is really a bit of a tester before I hit the marine grade stuff (when it arrives). I have several router tools made up that will allow for nice tongue and groove joints. The first tester cab however will have big fat dowles and will have the edges routered to give it a nice clean look. The front baffles however will be sunk into routered grooves on the sides which will allow for zero movement.
I have 2 sets of drivers that are going to be used. Fanes will be going in the slanted cab with 4 jensens going in the flat faced cab. Total output per cab is about 200rms. I took a host of pictures over the weekend of the cutting of the boards etc, but forgot to bring them into work, so this'll have to wait till tomorrow. I'm going to be doing some serious bracing on this cab, but also will be trying to keep the weight down...........lol.
Total build time on this should be about 2 weekends. Final finish will be high grade textured vinyl with white piping and this sucker will be on lockable (High quality) caster wheels. The lower cab will have slots so that they can fit into each other.
Stay tuned.
Because I can.....lol and because I have 8 speakers and a tonne of wood just lying around.
I've been building car audio systems and club cabinets for cars, bakkie, trucks and clubs since I was about 16 years old and even though I stopped making them a few years back, I usually take on some extra work when I need a few extra bucks.
I started with pulling down my skateboard ramp a few weeks back and decided to re-use a few of the 18mm plywood sheets for a side project of mine as even though they have been outside for the better part of 3 years, they were pressure treated and rot treated from day one and they look brand new.
The slanted/ flat faced cabs are loosly based on a Marshall M412 1960 cab. I will be posting some sizes for anyone that's interested in them. I've decided not to use any larney fancy joinery on this cab as this is really a bit of a tester before I hit the marine grade stuff (when it arrives). I have several router tools made up that will allow for nice tongue and groove joints. The first tester cab however will have big fat dowles and will have the edges routered to give it a nice clean look. The front baffles however will be sunk into routered grooves on the sides which will allow for zero movement.
I have 2 sets of drivers that are going to be used. Fanes will be going in the slanted cab with 4 jensens going in the flat faced cab. Total output per cab is about 200rms. I took a host of pictures over the weekend of the cutting of the boards etc, but forgot to bring them into work, so this'll have to wait till tomorrow. I'm going to be doing some serious bracing on this cab, but also will be trying to keep the weight down...........lol.
Total build time on this should be about 2 weekends. Final finish will be high grade textured vinyl with white piping and this sucker will be on lockable (High quality) caster wheels. The lower cab will have slots so that they can fit into each other.
Stay tuned.