New Family Build - Amp Cab

Sp8ctre said:
Not bad I guess, but not optimum IMO. I thought you were going to use a Birch Plywood?

I've seen pine warp even after it's dried for many years and I've also had sticky sap come out
of it long after a project was completed.
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This wood is decades old. It was shelving built into my basement when I bought the place. I recently dismantled it ans saved the wood. It was just laying around so I felt I should use it.

Honestly, i do not expect this to be a great cab and certainly not better than my Peavey, Marshall, Vox, etc. I am just seeing if I can do it and practicing with wood.
 
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RVA said:
Honestly, i do not expect this to be a great cab and certainly not better than my Peavey, Marshall, Vox, etc. I am just seeing if I can do it and practicing with wood.
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This seems harsh. Why are you selling yourself short?
Remember what you did with the rosewood telecaster?
That was several magnitudes of more complicated.
It will be an excellent cabinet.
 
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Ray, absolutely buy a nice router. They are very versatile tools. Also, carbide tipped bits cut so nicely. My first crude router was in wood shop in 8th grade technically after school. Our teachers were cool and let me stay to work on my project, I built my own skateboard deck from raw oak wood straight from the lumber yard. I mounted a router bit in the drill press to make recessed wheel wells where the wheels would sometimes rub on sharp turns. This was a great experience. I lowered the press just enough, locked it down, and proceeded to move the deck around the router bit till it removed all the wood up to my pencil marked wheel wells. A nice hand held router is also awesome in making rounded, contoured, and even mortise and tenon edges etc.

For example, I used my router to make all the top, bottom and mid rails for this porch railing system. This is all cedar wood that already is pricey. I think I got an estimate from the mill for $1100 for just the railing parts. A few router bits and a couple big shaper style bits I could use in the router and U got nearly exact replica of the rotted parts I got the job to replace with all new railing.






 
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Also, here is a cabinet door I had to fix for a client. I derailed the broken part away from the door and rebuilt and restained the new side to match.







 
Yeah nice re-purposing work on that table Tony, and thats quite a handsome purse you have there as well.
o_O:D
 
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