First 1x15 Speaker Cab Build

So I decided to build a speaker cabinet since I bought a 15'' Jensen MOD almost a year ago. I never really put it to much use but I figured if I built a decent cabinet for it I could begin to use it more. I don't know the exact dimensions off the top of my head but it is exactly as wide as my Marshall 1960B (so it's stackable) and just tall enough to comfortably fit the speaker and I used regular 1'' birch plywood (not baltic birch). The guys at Emperor Cabs use birch hardwood which is MUCH nicer and they don't have to cover it in tolex. Me? I used the cheapest possible wood so it won't sound that great, but I did learn a lot from it.

Here are some pictures of the cab halfway through construction:

I hadn't cut out the baffle yet at that point but it came together very nicely.  Before I built the cab, I had no idea how awful birch plywood looks after being sanded. I was thinking it would turn out like some kind of custom cabinet from the heavens, but it ended up looking like this:

 

 I spray painted it because I was too cheap to buy tolex. Overall, I'd say it was a success. Maybe in the future I'll post some pictures of the completely finished product or maybe even video of me shredding on it!

-Tony

Blasting Off!

Hello there! This is the first (of hopefully many) posts I'll be making on this blog. It's going to be a place for me to talk about whatever it is that I happen to be working on. As of right now, I'm an undergraduate at North Carolina State University studying physics and trying to go to grad school for computer science.

I've got a couple of posts that I will blast out back to back because I planned on making this blog for a while. Instead of wasting time on introductions, I'm just going to jump right in. Be wary of the crappy pictures! I lost the charger for my digital camera, but I'll find it sometime soon. Don't you worry.

Rock on.

-Tony