Building a 2x12 from solid wood

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Re: Building a 2x12 from solid wood

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They're rear mounted like millions of cabs with a grille cloth, otherwise you need to add a second frame for the grille cloth to stretch over. If you drop speakers in from the front, add the nuts, and then try to stretch a grille cloth over it you'll end up with lumps all over it, and if you wanted to change speakers? It would involve disassembling the entire front of the cab.

And tee nuts just fall out if you don't hammer them in, I think we're talking about different things. These have 4 prongs which effectively nail the thing into the substrate.

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No, its just, usually you would put them on the front so the bolts pull them into the wood.... know what I mean.

Creating a wood sandwhich of tee nut- wood - speaker - bolt. then the speaker won't fall out at volume....
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

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Ah yep, gotcha. I better flip the baffle around then. Cheers for the heads up.

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Thanks for the build pics, very exciting project and it looks beaut. I am thinking of building a cab with 2x10s, a 2x12 cab is too big for me.
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that's looking great!
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The way I see it, the build it basically 3 different parts - the box, the baffle, and the back. I can address all those parts independently and then assemble them at the end.

This weekend's task was starting the finishing on the box and prepping the baffle ready for the grille cloth and piping (they're 'in the mail').

With the help of my trusty Bosch I took the whole thing down to 320 grit, rubbed it down with a tack cloth and I'm using polyurethane as the finish. It's tough, makes the grain look good, is reasonably straight forward to apply and should be rather durable. I thin it down about 25-30% on the first coat, especially with soft woods.

Worth nothing here that the black inner 'lip' thing (which the baffle goes into) won't really be seen too much from the outside, so those scuff marks and general crapitude will be hidden by the baffle once that goes on.

This is it after 2 coats applied across Saturday and Sunday.

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Here's the good' ol baffle looking pretty mean. The red speaker cloth is on the way.

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And everything's photogenic if you frame it right.

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It's getting there.

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Nice, that Leffe looks tasty. Double brown poly?
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good one, you found a use for Belgian ale
There are still some that think the neck PU is moved to accommodate the extra frets which only proves they cannot detect the difference in length of each.

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mrmofo wrote:good one, you found a use for Belgian ale
Its a good creosote substitute, certainly.
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

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Bg wrote:
mrmofo wrote:good one, you found a use for Belgian ale
Its a good creosote substitute, certainly.

old Mr Gepello would rub it on his dog
There are still some that think the neck PU is moved to accommodate the extra frets which only proves they cannot detect the difference in length of each.

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haha I never bought the beer, the glass was 'borrowed' from the Belgian whateveritis by a mate who came over. It certainly came in handy.

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And we're done. 6 coats of semi-gloss polyurethane, then knocked back with 0000 steel wool and polished up. It looks a little like this:

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It's a 2/3 open back because I like it. The back baffle (is it a baffle?) is 15mm AA plywood. That's a 1974 G12S50 on the left and a 1982 G12M 70 on the right. 100% hair metal speaker combo.

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And one of these guys around the back:

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Not a bad finish:

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And here it is in situ with it's matching rebuilt amp head:

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It was a Laney AOR 50 but it's been 100% rebuilt, the only thing Laney anymore is the chassis, transformers and labeling. The guy who builds my pickups and has a very active youtube channel (Elams1894) rebuilt it with some input from me regarding cap choices etc. He's got a whole series of videos dedicated to this amp but here's a tasty vid showcasing some cap changes in the tone stack for da chugz.

https://vid.me/YZl

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Nicely dovetailed! Good 'combo'.
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Yeah it's a work of art that thing, nothing to do with me though. That was all the amp tech. He's a wizard.

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that looks great!!!! well done :-)
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