Making a plain MDF box look nice

[Raisedin305]

OK I am currently having two boxes made. One for comps and another for daily driving. I don't want just a regular carpeted box. I want it to look nice. I have seen some nices boxes here on caraudio. Some wooded boxes had some stuff added to it that made the box look king of like granite. I want to keep this simple. Things I can buy at home depot that are cheap but will make the box nice. Any suggestions and pics of nice boxes please post them here.

[saywhat?]

its like a sticker type deal u can get at home depot, **** i cant think of the name..



AH formica!

[azbass]

sand the mdf untill it shines. yes you can do that.

[Randy Savage]

Route the edges.

Paint with fleckstone paint, from home depot.

Maybe carpet and do some inserts underneath the carpet to put in a symbol or something of the like?

[ngsm13]

sand the mdf untill it shines. yes you can do that.

Indeed.

I used a roundover bit on all the edges, and sanded it with 120-600grit...in steps. It was so **** smooth, and it shined. ;)

nG

[Jameseypoo]

any pictures? i wanna see a shiny mdf box :)

[ngsm13]

any pictures? i wanna see a shiny mdf box :)

I'll look. That is the one setup I didn't tak any pictures of though, it kind of makes me sad :(... was *******... for my 18XXX.

nG

[azbass]

http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/6788/img01631zg.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[dalucifer]

that looks **** good if u ask me..

[slain93gsr]

that looks really nice...didnt know you could sand mdf to look that way

[dleccord]

so youre saying that box rite there isnt coated?? dayummmm i like how the port is sanded

[AcidicDreams]

that gives me ideas :)... I was buying a router anyways, I'll have to get a sander too