Building a cab!

[Quencho092]

A buddy of mine is going to grab a silverface 68 bassman from the same guy that i bought my blonde bandmaster from and make a 1x15 cab for it.

What wood? Birch? Pine? He's probably going with a Weber Michigan 15 inch Electrovoice replica. It will need to hold up to loudness.

Finally, what joint style should we use on the corners? Finger jointing with a router? Just plain glue?

 

[Artie]

Re: Building a cab!

Use 3/4" dressed both sides Birch.Many companies use a mortise join,I like to do tenon joins for cabs.

Hey John, I'm curious about why "dressed both sides". Is there a structural reason for that? I'd just assumed that the inside didn't matter, and the outside would be covered.

Just curious, because I'm working on one myself.

 

[Erlend_G]

Re: Building a cab!

I just put the top plates on top of the side plates, and it works well..... glue and screws!

 

[XSSIVE]

Re: Building a cab!

go all out and do a dovetail joint lol...

my dad does woodworking as a hobby and i keep trying to talk him into making me and exotic wood speaker cab with some fancy dovetail joints. wanna talk about a strong joint, that sucker won't pull appart no matter what speaker you stick in there! however it's a bit..uhhh...XSSIVE...for what you need :laugh2:

-Mike

 

[Quencho092]

Re: Building a cab!

It's going to be an inexpensive type route of doing things, so we're probably going to wing the tolex and just paint the cab.

Any comments on the speaker?