Building my own guitar cabs?
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Posted on Aug 11, 2011 02:43 pm
crux
Typo Szar
Member Since: Jul 04, 2002
How hard would this be for a person with no electronics, speaker, woodshop experience.
Would it save me a ton of money to buy speakers, parts, and wood and build my own guitar speaker cabinet? I only want a 1x12 or 2x12 not a big 4.
Possible? Schematics?
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Aug 11, 2011 02:59 pm I have built quite a few speakers in my year and some with great results, but, it is more involved than just cutting some wood and throwing some speakers in...actually, that I found to be the easiest part...the harder part is size calculation for any given speaker you buy. Being a one or two 12 inch speaker plan, you don't have to worry about crossovers and that sort of thing...so that's good.
You can google around for cabinet volume calculations...depending on the specs of the speakers you buy, those specs figure in to determine the overall volume of the cabinet, and if you want to port the cabinet (for a guitar cab you probably won't) those specs will also determine the diameter and length of the tuned port.
As far as money savings, yeah, it can save you some money, but it all depends on the components you buy to build it with...a nice sheet of 3/4 plywood nicely sanded and finished isn't exactly cheap, raw speakers can cost a little or a lot, you get what you pay for...the wiring, well, that's pretty easy and cheap, wire and a jack or two for the back...
cruxTypo SzarMember
Since: Jul 04, 2002
Aug 12, 2011 05:41 am cool, ill do the research see how much i can save, it might become a father son type project, my dad COMPLETELY unlike me loves working with his hands and has built a ton of stuff. If it saves me enuogh cash ill do just so i have the skills.
Dematrixhttp://www.reverbnation.com/2ndgMember
Since: Nov 27, 2007
Aug 12, 2011 06:02 am Ya know you could try buying 2nd hand cabs with no speakers and mod em. mate o mine used to do it, he'd rip em open and put baffles and whatever crazy ideas he had inside, then bought speakers. seemed to work good.
Aug 12, 2011 06:50 am Crux, the first speakers I built were for stage monitors, and it wound up being a father/son project and we were both machinists, so it was fun for us to do. Dematrix has a good point too, look at second hand shops and you can find old, unloaded cabs sometimes pretty cheap.
The trickiest part, depending on your availavle ger, is cutting out a nice,perfect circle for the speakers.
Dematrixhttp://www.reverbnation.com/2ndgMember
Since: Nov 27, 2007
Aug 12, 2011 08:54 am hahaha, yeahz, beers before hand not recommended.
