My Journey.....a Newbie Story

[Omarvelous 10+ year member]

Ok guys!!! I have the pics and the story of my journey. From building the box to getting the sub. Enjoy.

All started with a trip to home depot. Got a 49 x 97 " piece of MDF for 19$.

Major cuts were made Free of charge by this nice man at Home Depot.

Also bought some supplies.

Liquid Nails, Chaulk Gun, Nails, and Foam Seal.

Total was probably 8$

Was originally goind to make a sealed and ported box......things didn't work out as planned.

At first bought a 30$ drill and Jigsaw from Lowes.

Due to the loudness and difficulty of the cuts i was doing, i got aggrevated and returned these tools.

I then bought a RotoZip RZ1 for 59$

Tried it, burned my mdf, was WAY to loud had to return.

This was when i gave up..... and was going to just get it done.

2 days later had a vision. Was like "If i'm going to throw away all this wood, i might as well test the liquid nails out"

Did that and this was what i got.

Real Clean outside.

I then got some mail.

Some sexy knukonceptz wiring

3" Flexible flared ports from The Zeb

Banana Terminal from PartsExpress

HUGE Ports, and kind of poorly made

Also got my terminals dblocks and fuses from darvex.com, all stinger custom pro.

(pics later)

I then bought a drill to put some screws in it, i did buy the screws might as well use them

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[Omarvelous 10+ year member]

Bought also a Circle cut drill bit

Made the holes for my ports and terminal as a started for a jigsaw to finish the hole

got more mess

Drill costed 20$, was good, still returned it.

then went online searching for a multitool, found this

so i bought this

from amazon for 99$, Good for the price, could be more power ful, it got the job done.

Unscrewed all almost 1 pound of screws, and countersunk everyoneof them.

Also cut out terminal and port holes

Made the tops so they sort of slant forward like this

used liquid nails.

Went to Chase Pitkin to pick a color out with my girlfriend.

She decided the crackling idea i had wasn't the one, so we decided to go with the stone look.

also got these to go with it

I think it will be sexy.

O yea forgot the mention got my Amp from millionbuy.xom i think i is.

Very sexy

 

[Omarvelous 10+ year member]

Been cruising sounddomain and caraudio classifieds for a 12, got one offer from sounddomain.

MrFlamboyant, good guy great seller. He wanted a M.O., was a little worried, although had a lot of credibility.

1 week later got my baby

HEAVY MOFO!! 59 pounds!

Wasted no time and got it wired

 

[Omarvelous 10+ year member]

Added some l shaped braces

Did a little more work on the box, including a little bondoing and added foam surrond

BONDO i hae IT!!!! Gonna get an alternate filler tomorrow.

After some tweaking and stuff got the fit and everything, and this is the end result

 

[Omarvelous 10+ year member]

First off, sorry for the huge pics, it' late i'm tired!

For this being my first sub and box, i'm pretty **** pleased!!

**** good craftsmanship.

Over the summer i might build it better.

But as for now, planning on trading my car,

for this

and put either 3 15's or 2 18's.

Got plans.

Well hope you enjoyed

 

[EarDrummin. 10+ year member]

Edit.. those pics ARE huge.

 

[EarDrummin. 10+ year member]

That box looks like it's been through a war.. and lost!

 

[Omarvelous 10+ year member]

That box looks like it's been through a war.. and lost!

LOL looks like that now, wait until it's done!!!!

I will minimize them, don't worry.

 

[misterio 10+ year member]

well looks like you spent too much money on building a box. IMO but then again im poor and i don't have that extra $ to spare. I built my box with less than 30 bucks, man i have a cable connection and it took some time to load those pics!

 

[ss3079 5,000+ posts]

Always nice to see pics.

Hope you enjoy the XXX. Should treat you well.

- Steve

 

[EarDrummin. 10+ year member]

LOL looks like that now, wait until it's done!!!!
I will minimize them, don't worry.

Hehe, I was in the computer lab with a very slow connection at the time, don't mind me. I'm sure your ugly box will work beautifully. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[LoneRanger 10+ year member]

Good luck finishing her up......

it's a nice attempt for a first time. definatly better than my first box (i'll spare myself the shame of showing you guys the pics)

remember kids, when you add it all up it's a lot cheaper to have me do it....and i promise your box won't be ugly!

 

[nweibley 10+ year member]

Haha, LR, thats a shameless plug I guess.

Ok, he is converting the URLs now.

 

[Omarvelous 10+ year member]

Only reason why i chose not to get it done by GnomeAudio, is because i am a tinker AND because i will be building a lot of boxes.

But if your not the adventerous type, or need 1 box quick, then i'd say get it done!

 

[LoneRanger 10+ year member]

Haha, LR, thats a shameless plug I guess.

Shameless?

Nah.

Uncalled for?

Probably.

Unsolicited?

Most likely.

True?

Definatly //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif