Building Guitar Amp Speaker Cabinets

Primarily the cabinet is a convenient way of housing the speaker so it should be solidly built to ensure no joint vibration unpleasant buzzing and be strong enough to withstand hard use.

Building guitar amp speaker cabinets.

As guitar speakers are different so their cabinets are different. Many guitar speaker cabinets do not have a back but this can decrease the sound. You can create a full back quarter or half back if you prefer. In my recent holidays i wanted to tinker a little bit and so i decided to build my own 1 12 guitar speaker cabinet.

This will leave sufficient headroom above the side by side 10 inch speakers to mount the filmosound on a sliding shelf much like vox did with vintage ac30 combos. You can find purpose built hardware like corner guards handles and similar or you can go with a diy approach. As you might know i m really into guitars and guitar equipment right now. In terms of diy guitar amp cabinet hardware you have a variety of choices.

Create a piece of wood large enough to contain the input jack and long enough to span the inside of the guitar speaker cabinet. Taking some inspiration from michiel helsloot s elektra 185 amplifier i decide to build a taller than standard combo cabinet. One day i started to scribble a cabinet on a piece of paper that was flying around and half an hour later the plan was laid out. Adding some reinforcement to the cabinet is always a good thing.