Glad I'm not the only juvenile here...Originally Posted by Bakersdozen
Glad I'm not the only juvenile here...
Making the world a better place; one guitar at a time...
Still looks pretty much like a box with a hole in it... but there was progress made yesterday and today, though maybe not super obvious.
I set out and drilled the speaker mounting holes and installed the T nuts. I recessed them as I mentioned above in a reply to Simon.
I also did all the holes for fixing the baffle and rear panels to the cabinet. The baffle board and panels are all fixed with raised head countersunk screws and cup washers. FYI, you won't find those screws at the BGS! What a pain in the backside finding those in a lockdown!
The input jack and plate have been installed, but not wired yet. And lastly, I drilled and mounted the feet.
Obviously I will need to disassemble everything to stain and clear coat, but at least put together it looks I've actually made something!
One thing I did not plan to do but did, was putting veneer on the exposed edge of 7mm plywood that make up the rear panels.
I was just going to round them, stain the edge black and call it good enough, after all, this is supposed to be "rustic", right?
I had enough pine veneer left over from some earlier "gap correction", so I figured stuff it, I'll just do it. (that would make a great slogan!) The bottom edge of the top rear panel will likely never be seen by anyone but me, but like I've said before, I'll know it's there, and it's little things like that that make me happy!
Next job is fixing the grill cloth to the baffle board, then it's on the filling & sanding, sanding, sanding... staining... clear coat... metal corners in there somewhere...
Hopefully I'll have it ready for an audition in a couple of weeks (unless covid messes that up!).
Oh, one last thing... the cabinet currently weighs 5.65kg, and the speaker weighs 3.3kg, so I'm tracking pretty well for <10kg target weight! Pretty happy with that.
Making the world a better place; one guitar at a time...
That's looking really good. I've got a nasty feeling I've got an amp and cab build in my future.
Thanks John.
A cabinet I can handle, don't think I've got amp in me though!
Making the world a better place; one guitar at a time...
Here’s one I made earlier …
No photos today.
I started spraying poly this morning though. Decided to go with satin.
Previous three days have mostly entailed staining, and I applied the grill cloth to the baffle board.
The stain ended up being a combination of Golden Teak and Old Baltic. The Golden Teak alone was too orange/yellow and the Old Baltic was too brown. So a diluted solution of each applied separately was the marriage I was looking for. It was one of those rare times when the colour comes out exactly like what you saw in your head!
I haven't done a baffle board with grill cloth in many years, so it was slow going at first until I remembered my old method. Had a couple of hiccups with my corners but all in all it finished up great. Good thing the wonky corners are completely out of sight though!
FYI, for any of you amp builders, I'll be posting the offcut from my grill cloth in the swap/trade/unload forum if anyone is interested.
It's not huge, but there's enough there to easily do a Blues Junior-size or slightly larger type amp.
LINK to swap/trade/unload
Last edited by McCreed; 12-08-2021 at 10:45 AM.
Making the world a better place; one guitar at a time...
Well I'm calling the clear coat d-u-n...
I got enough coats on yesterday, but had pretty good run on one side and a bit of a rough spot in another. Decided to fix it.
I did a bit of scraping and strip sanding to fix the run, and flat sanding on the rough patch. All good to go.
Then resprayed and got another run in a different spot (much smaller) so I'll just live with it.
On the plus side, the areas I fixed came up good!
Also, you'll be shocked and surprised to hear that the bottom side is absolutely flawless!!! D'oh!!!
Making the world a better place; one guitar at a time...
Please excuse us if we don't ask to see pictures of your flawless bottom.
I post those on a different sitePlease excuse us if we don't ask to see pictures of your flawless bottom.
Making the world a better place; one guitar at a time...
Today I got all the hardware on, installed the speaker and wired up the jack.
There are a couple of ill-fitting metal corners, but I think I can live with them. Finished, loaded weight comes in at 9.18kg. I estimated 9.29kg from my pile of parts - pretty bloody close! And that's 4.42 kg lighter than the original chipboard cabinet.
I had a bit of time to play it this arvo, and experimented with the lower panel on & off. There is an audible difference (believe it or not) and I think I prefer it on, but will experiment some more. I think I'll knock up another panel that will allow me completely close it up and see what that sounds like too.
FWIW, the opening between the two panels isn't totally random, but nor is it completely scientific.
Looking at a few similarly sized semi-open extension cabinets that use the same Celestion G-12 V speaker, and some open-back Fender amps (which is what my Quilter is based on) the opening is approximately 20% of the total area.
The last bit of detail I'll put on is a label at the input jack stating the ohm load and wattage. Maybe tomorrow's bit of fun!
Making the world a better place; one guitar at a time...
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