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Non ADA Gear => Speakers & Cabinets => Topic started by: WickerMan on April 24, 2014, 06:50:56 PM

Title: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: WickerMan on April 24, 2014, 06:50:56 PM
So I finally decided to sell my Marshall cab (hard to see those '74 greenback go) whenever someone is going to buy it.

I decided to go with a 2x12 solid oak open back cab. Still have to choose the speaker I will put in, so far i am going towards Celestion Lynchback but need to sell my 4x12 to afford the speaker...

and some pictures :

during the sanding stages

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/843/3x1a.jpg)

After staining and getting the front panel ready :

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/838/zg4x.jpg)

Final result :

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/841/i817.jpg)

let me know what you guys think
Title: Re: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: BrokeDownSouth on April 24, 2014, 07:51:23 PM
Dude that is great.  Looks like you've got a pretty serious woods shop.
Title: Re: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: WickerMan on April 24, 2014, 08:55:43 PM
I did it at school during extra time as a personal project
Title: Re: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: rnolan on April 24, 2014, 09:00:59 PM
Very nice  :thumb-up:
Title: Re: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: MikeB on April 24, 2014, 11:00:07 PM
Man, that is beautiful.  Good work.
Title: Re: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: rnolan on April 25, 2014, 12:10:31 AM
Hey Mike, a bit better looking than my old 2 x 12 open back cab  ::) , did allot of gigs that cab...  It had a pair of fender twin speakers in it (quite old ones, probably eminence?).  Now it's got 1 as the other was toast (which is what blew one side of your B200s way back when).
Title: Re: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: rnolan on April 25, 2014, 03:23:11 AM
Hey WikerMan, how are you going to wire it, do you want it to be a mono box, stereo box or both ?  I've got one of my ADA slant split stacks wired so it can be stereo (2 x 16 ohm) or mono 8 ohm. Did this with 2 1/4" jack sockets, one is the switching/shorting kind the other normal, if you plug into both sockets, it's stereo, into one socket (switching one), it's mono (speakers in parallel).
Title: Re: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: WickerMan on April 25, 2014, 05:02:06 AM
The pictures really doesn't do justice to the beauty of the cab
It will be a mono 8ohm box, keeping as simple as possible
Title: Re: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: BrokeDownSouth on April 25, 2014, 06:24:56 AM
How did you get the speaker cloth mounted?  Did you make a frame to fit in there?
Title: Re: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: WickerMan on April 25, 2014, 07:27:54 AM
it is stapled on the baffle
Title: Re: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: rnolan on April 25, 2014, 08:22:30 AM
The pictures really doesn't do justice to the beauty of the cab
It will be a mono 8ohm box, keeping as simple as possible
Cool  :thumb-up:
Title: Re: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: RandallRG on April 25, 2014, 10:51:16 AM
WickerMan Killer job Dude...very nice!  :thumb-up:
Title: Re: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: MarshallJMP on April 25, 2014, 11:24:19 AM
Looks really nice.So why don't you put 2 greenbacks of your marshall cab in there for now?

Here's a shootout of different celestions.For me personally i like the greenbacks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Iqt38GM3w

Title: Re: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: Peter H. Boer on April 25, 2014, 01:25:34 PM
Very nice cab.  :thumb-up:

This Celestion also sound very nice http://celestion.com/product/6/celestion_gold/ (http://celestion.com/product/6/celestion_gold/)
Title: Re: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: WickerMan on September 17, 2014, 11:34:13 AM
Finally done with the move across the country, so time to remove the greenback and put them in the 2x12. So far, not sure how I feel about the open back, lacking in the bottom but those high note just scream!!! Gonna have to spend some times playing with the setting but overall quite satisfied with my little baby!
Title: Re: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: El Chiguete on September 17, 2014, 09:39:01 PM
Has anyone made a 4x12 cab that has a wall separating the bottom 2x12 and the top 2x12 and have the bottom one closed back and the top one open back?
Title: Re: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: Systematic Chaos on September 17, 2014, 10:04:28 PM
I have old (late 80s/early 90s ???) Mesa 4x12 and Mesa 2x12 built that way.....Humongous in both tone and weight!
Title: Re: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: rnolan on September 18, 2014, 05:48:04 AM
Nice cabs the Mesa 2x12 (one sealed one open), not a small box though as as you say got some weight...
Hey El, I had a Yamaha quad box (now owned by MikeB) which I wired stereo and put some cardboard down the middle (I split it left and right, not top bottom), it worked fine/great although not quite as good as 2 ADA split stacks.  I've also got another single split stack which I've wired stereo (less to carry...), but nothing inside to separate the speakers.  I've found it flanges a bit when I set chorus depth 100 rate 0 (a trick I always used with MP1 to get a fattening delay), so I've recently turned off the chorus to get less flange (comb filtering) interaction in the single box.
A pair of 2x12 Mesa cabs (as above) would sound killer...  If you go for open back, the speaker generally needs a stiffer cone as it's got no air suspension (not to mention they spill front and back).
Title: Re: Homemade Cabinet
Post by: WickerMan on September 18, 2014, 07:09:39 AM
Has anyone made a 4x12 cab that has a wall separating the bottom 2x12 and the top 2x12 and have the bottom one closed back and the top one open back?

THD use to have one of those (not sure if they still do), sound great and big. Never did, but would be easy enough to do. I just don't have any use for it.