Want to build a cabinet

[GrdnGrvr777]

I've been looking all over the place for some step by step instructions on how to build your own guitar cabinet and haven't found a thing. So if anyone knows a place, I would love to know where it is. Thanks alot.

 

[drstawl]

Hey! A Garbage Grover! Anywhere near Trash Ave? I know a good drummer that lives there.
A cabinet is just a coffin for a very flat corpse. Go with some dense hardwoods along the four surfaces that will serve as bottom in any configuration other than flat on the front or back. Then use high density particle board for everything else. Throw some fiberglass insulation in there when you're done. Staple it down to keep it from bunching up in corners. Use one thick piece of particle board for the front and back and a scroll saw to cut out the speaker holes. Get some grill cloth, some casters, a few nice 12" or 15" JBLs and a good quality 1/4" jack and you're in there. I took the easy way out and just found an old bassman cabinet....

 

[RussP]

Howdy 777;

Drstawl's advice might work, but it proably sound like a coffin with speakers.

I found a book at the library but you had to have an engineering degree to figure out the proper dimentions to match the desired speakers. I'll keep my eye on this thread to see any good info shows up.

Good luck;
RP

 

[Tim Brown]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by GrdnGrvr777:
I've been looking all over the place for some step by step instructions on how to build your own guitar cabinet and haven't found a thing. So if anyone knows a place, I would love to know where it is. Thanks alot.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Well, you need to know what the Vas rating is of the speakers that you intend to use.

Go to http://www.partsexpress.com
This is Parts Express-and they sell everything you'll need to do it.
I bought a Computer program called Bassbox by Harris Technologies.
There is more to it than just "making a box"-the Box has to be tuned to the speakers-or it's gonna be an awful box.

A box that is "in tune" will be much louder and smoother than a box that is out of tune with the speakers.

They even sell celestions for you die-hards.
I personally wouldn't walk across the street to pee on a celestion-but that's just my opinon. They are just a crappy speaker.
My guitarist aof a few years ago switched from a Marshall box with celestons to a Mesa Boogie box that had EV's in it-and the change was AMAZING!
The sound was crisp, and clear-and didn't have all that crappy "honk" type of midrange that is so common with Marshall/Celestion combinations.
Plus, the Distortion was smoothe and full, not a "brittle/thin" type of sound.

Moral of the story-better speakers produce better sound.
Hell-I've heard Eminence speakers that sound much better than celestions.
If celestion was so great-how come nobody used them in PA speakers? And when celestion DID finally make PA speakers-they couldn't give them away!


Tim

 

[RussP]

Thanks Tim;

Parts Express is a great resorce.
I've built a few cabinets, only one sounded
good enough to actually use.

I'm going to try the Bass Box software.

Stay in tune;
RussP