how do you do this?

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How do you make boxes like this?? they look great! ... here are some examples ...

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fiberglass, search it up, im trying some stuff out with it on my new box, already made a little demo peice. a whole lotta time involved but if it comes out like those pic's, who cares....

 
Originally posted by tommyk90 Check out the enclosure in this ride.

 

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holy shit eclipse 15s look ****ing sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that is so nice

and that red one looks great!!!!!!!!!! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif :crazy: //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif :crazy: //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif

 
Just finishing up a moderately complex fiberglassing project for my '00 Mustang. While fiberglass, matts, bondo, and such are relatively cheap, for most projects you will need quite a bit of it.

I'm photographing the stages and making some notes to post when my job is completed, but it is nowhere on the scale of what's in this thread. However, I still have a fairly large amount of $$ invested (probably a good $500+ just for fabrication materials), not to mention six full days of work, with an assistant.

I'm making a speaker box, amp rack, two front pods and a rear deck panel.

Materials used include:

Huge amounts of fiberglass resin (four 1/2 of the large cans).

Huge amounts of bondo (almost four of the large cans).

Filler putty.

Many cans of primer, paint, and spray foam.

A sheet of plexiglass.

A sheet of oak plywood (for parts of the amp rack and sub-box).

A sheet of MDF (for component baffles).

Carpet (for the front pods).

Many packages of fiberglass cloth and mesh/matt/whatever.

Tools that I can't live without:

Skillsaw

Rotozip

Electric Drill/Screwdriver

Jigsaw

Rotary Sander (the god of all tools for car audio work).

Non-expensive stuff:

Cardboard.

Duct tape. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

Metal Yardstick.

Level.

Exacto Knife.

Scissors.

Mission critical stuff:

A very understanding fiance'.

Hopefully, that gives a better idea just what is involved in this kind of work, but don't be discouraged. It's incredibly fun and rewarding as you see everything go from hideously ugly (tape wrapped around expanding foam covered in raw fiberglass is not pretty) to hopefully "wow, that's sweet!". It's addictive. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 
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