Cabinet ideas?

carlinb17

carlinb17

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I’m waiting for mojotone to send me same swatches for a deluxe reverb cabinet… I think it’s going to be a long process…So I started looking around for either a beat up temp combo cab or even a head cab. Striking out locally and wants to see if the crowd had any suggestions because I’m sure I will have finished the amp before I even order the custom cab.
 
Box it up temporarily with some dimensioned pine.. Source some S4S(Surfaced four sides) 12"x1" pine and build a nice box with pocket hole construction. Should make a nice temporary box that will resonate well.. or you could do the same with Birch ply.. either way wood is crazy spendy right now.
 
It's fascinating how different the terminology is between countries. In the US you put the month before the day in the date which confuses us here in Australia - here 911 would be 119. And where you in the States say 2x4 we say 4x2 - of course!

Here S4S 12" x 1" is (to old guys) 12x1 dressed, or to us young 'uns 19 x 285 pine. FWIW I would go pine over birch ply because (a) it's easier to handle, and (b) it just sounds better. I've been making cabs from both lately and much prefer the sound of the pine. Birch ply is easier to be accurate with but the pine just sounds better and makes for a lighter weight cab.

And yeah - it really is the $$ right now. I'm tempted to use the old pallet I have weathering out the back...
 
Wood is wood for certain projects, once you actually get the cloth or 3~4 coats of thick paint on it, nobody would know you used grade 4 lumber(pallets, shim stock, just better than fire wood)and will sound a metric sh!ton better than particle board, let alone plastic and be waaaaaaay cheaper. 😉
 
Deperduci said:
Wood is wood for certain projects, once you actually get the cloth or 3~4 coats of thick paint on it, nobody would know you used grade 4 lumber(pallets, shim stock, just better than fire wood)and will sound a metric sh!ton better than particle board, let alone plastic and be waaaaaaay cheaper. 😉
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You make a good point - how thick the covering is definitely affects the sound. I built a few solid pine cabs for friends who insisted that they didn't want vinyl - they had seen the cabs in the white and wanted to see the grain. So I finished them in a stained varnish - quite thin because I sanded thoroughly between coats - and they sounded quite different from the same cabs covered in vinyl. More highs. Lots of sibilant high end that you just don't get with a tolexed cab.

But there are significant differences between ply and solid pine even when tolexed - if you are a cabinet geek! I put so much time and effort (and $$) into my amps trying to get the best sound I can that using an inferior cab would kill me! So far I find that the tweed cab style suits the sound I like. They might not be scientifically designed - more accountant-led design I suspect - but they sound great for my amps. The ply cabs probably reflect the sound of the amp better but the solid pine/lightweight baffle cabs are more flattering.

The videos in that "Where does the tone come from" series are helpful but not entirely the final word. Really interesting though.
 
quite true, I do have a project planned, the main carcass of the cab will be pine, aspen or poplar, whichever is cheaper(or available in the width I need) and might go over it with some stained flame maple veneer, I got a good pile left after what I set aside for 1-2 guitar skins :unsure:
 
I built a cab inspired by this website:
https://billfitzmaurice.info/XFCabs.html
Thread of my build on 'the other forum' here:
https://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=17680.0

This is how it looks:

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I've got a few cabinets to be built. One for my Tweed chassis, and some bass cabinets. Leaning towards a simple Pine cabinet for the Tweed, as per HamishR's recommendations. I've also been gifted a smaller 8" speaker that might go well with a Champ/Princeton build.

I've looked at the BFM for both guitar and bass cabs, and also for bass the Fearful, Chris Cole and Duke LeJeune designs.
I've been dragging my heels on these 'cause there's too many choices in the BFM or Greenboy designs alone.
That and I'm waiting for the price of wood to come down... 😹😸😺😼😾😿
 
If you're just looking for a placeholder, why not just go to your local goodwill/etc and find a junked set of stereo speakers? rip out the crossovers/tweeters and swap in whatever guitar speaker(s) you'd like.
 
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