DIY Speaker Cabinet

[bcresci]

I was finally able to get up to visit my parents in VT. Spent this week constructing a cabinet for the rig I'm in the process of building. Two JBL E-120's waiting at home.

Glenn - if you're watching the posts, this is what you contributed to. Thanks, my friend.

[tigerstrat]

Those are some good-looking holes!

[Dozin]

My thoughts exactly!

[bcresci]

We used a circle jig for the holes - the jig connects to a router and swings on a pivot point. Turned out to be very precise.

Here's the completed cab. I hooked it up today to a Trio -> Mac 2300 and it sounded really nice. Need to fool around with the setting a bit to get what I'm after.

[Ender]

where do you get those speaker clips?

[playingdead]

Really nice! Can't wait to hear some clips!

[waldo041]

where do you get those speaker clips?

they look to be today's Hard Truckers spec'd clips. they are pretty much the same thing with a smaller hole/screw diameter.

PM me and i can help you out, IF you have a local machine shop that can mill them.

peace,
waldo

[deadguise]

Looks good, to bad the bottom speaker dust cover got poked. I had a cat piss on mine...

[Peaks Rhythm]

The cabinet looks great. I just built one for myself and had a hard time cutting straight lines and round circles using a jigsaw through baltic birch. What wood did you use? I like the different colors in the pieces you used.

[bcresci]

The wood is 9-ply Birch plywood from Home Depot. We couldn't find any 13-ply. It's actually not really great wood - that darker strip looks ok, but there are small blue stains in a few places that we couldn't get out - not too visible in these pictures, but they are there. Being our first project, we didn't want to buy expensive wood. We used 1/2 round strips around the front to hide the layers of the plywood.

The cirlces were cut with a circular router jig we picked up at a local hardware store. It was very accurate. You basically drill a hole in the wood, insert a pin through the jig into the hole for a pivot point, and then with the router attached cut the circle (drilling slightly deeper every time you go around).

http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/inde ... rodID=4446

Most of the cuts are pretty straight, but there are some places where the wood doesn't fit together 100% accuarately, but it was good enough for what I needed.

All in all a very fun project. Kudos to my father for provided all the wood-working knowledge. Couldn't have done it without him.