Beginner's guide to box building

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

you the birch master who got the eboner started, only seems fitting if you do //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

With all due respect to pimp, he's been working with it recently, but I know of a few members here who have probably been staining for the past few years. It really isn't that difficult if you prepare and finish the surface correctly. If we could get Vikash to come back, he'd be a great guy to do it.

 

[AlpineUser 10+ year member]

o and dont drill too close to the edge i learned that a few times lol

 

[baseballer1100 5,000+ posts]

Alpineuser got any pics?

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

Yes, I should have mentioned that. Try to keep at LEAST 2" away from any panel edge that is perpendicular to the one you're drilling into. Even with proper predrilling (which is a must, self tapping is worthless in speaker construction), you can still split the wood.

 

[thatkidbob 10+ year member]

Alpineuser got any pics?

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[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

PV u really need to check the loctite wood glue walmart sells

i did some stress tests and it walked all over gorilla glue and liquid nails and was a decent amount better than titebond II

 

[creyc 10+ year member]

I spent at least an hour explaining to my buddy that, with the amount of clamping we had available, screws had no place in his box while it was being constructed. He wouldn't believe me when I said that glue will do ALL the structural support and insisted on the physical friction of some screws. :|

I so wanted to kick the screwed joints just to show how little a few screws did, but I was the one building the box. Some people just don't think...

 

[coolahan 10+ year member]

PV u really need to check the loctite wood glue walmart sells
i did some stress tests and it walked all over gorilla glue and liquid nails and was a decent amount better than titebond II

is that a bullet hole in your driver side window in your sig? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eyebrow.gif.fe2c18d8720fe8c7eaed347b21ea05a5.gif

Lawl no but really you need to edit the original post and talk about predrilling etc.

 

[thatkidbob 10+ year member]

My last 2 boxes were built with Elmer's probond... one was constructed with countersunk screws (2 per joint... 3 on longer joints), the other without countersunk screws (the screws were removed after the box dried.). Both are VERY sound structurally (though i'm adding a dowel to one of them, as its flexing a lil bit more than i think a box that small sound).

As long as its wood glue it doesn't matter what you use... its the wood thats going to break, not the joint...

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

PV u really need to check the loctite wood glue walmart sells
i did some stress tests and it walked all over gorilla glue and liquid nails and was a decent amount better than titebond II

Hah, I remember you telling me about that before. See, here's the problem. I HATE Wal-Mart more than any other store in the world. I only go in there to buy their waffle weave microfiber towels to dry my car with, and get Armorall Tire foam for my wheel wells. That's it! Plus, they don't let me even buy glue because I'm under 18. Retarded.

 

[AlpineUser 10+ year member]

Alpineuser got any pics?

no my dad forgot to bring home his works digi cam but this week i will make him bring it home

 

[kicker06 10+ year member]

Dovetail>glue and screws.

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

Except....95% of people don't have the time to dovetail a subwoofer box, let alone the extra labor it costs when the person buying it won't even realize that it's any different.

 

[GrnEydDvl 10+ year member]

someone should do a write up on staining wood...

I would def be interested in a sticky / post on all types of finishes / coverings for enclosures.

 

[GrnEydDvl 10+ year member]

Info on dovetailing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovetail_joint