Painting Speaker Box

[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

Fleckstone paint and stained birch on this one:

Lay down a MANY coats of primer on the edges as it will soak up the paint. I also bondo the seams and sand them smooth. Hammertone and Fleckstone are more forgiving since they're textured.

Silver base/transparent purple/clear coat for the port:

 

[bk all day 10+ year member]

nice job on that birch anybody else got more painted boxes I'm liking this

 

[aussiek2000 10+ year member]

i just used flat black on my box

 

[cshaw 10+ year member]

heres some pics of what i was talking about.

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=7481128&albumID=878379&imageID=36250294

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=7481128&albumID=878379&imageID=36250283

 

[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

Here's a few more stained ones. Blue one only lasted a few weeks as I went to 2 subs...

 

[Trell 10+ year member]

Hey cshaw, it says that your profile is marked as private...

 

[cshaw 10+ year member]

my laptop is getting fixed right now, better pics on that. i forgot about the privateness, **** spam, its fixed.

that blue stain is wild, looks great.

 

[Trell 10+ year member]

That birch is hella sexy...think I just figured option 1 for my Mag box! lol

 

[86yota 10+ year member]

Fleckstone paint and stained birch on this one:

Lay down a MANY coats of primer on the edges as it will soak up the paint. I also bondo the seams and sand them smooth. Hammertone and Fleckstone are more forgiving since they're textured.

Silver base/transparent purple/clear coat for the port:

Could you please put up some type of tutorial on how you got the port to look this good? Was that MDF you painted or birch? I would love to do my ports like that on my new box Im building, and need to know ASAP how you did it!!!

 

[dbaudio 10+ year member]

You could use a product called DuraTex or Tolex. It's the textured paint found on Pro Sound speaker cabinets. DuraTex is a bit more rough than Tolex, so it depends on what you're looking for.

Does anybody have pics of cabinets covered in bed liner? I'm in the process of doing a friend's install and I really don't want to spend too much time carpeting it properly. I was thinking of using the Bed Liner kit Duplicolor has at Walmart. Opinions?

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

just use some color spray paint. make sure it doesnt run. its cheap to do that

 

[wong05tsx 10+ year member]

Has anyone used vinyl? I'm not sure if it sticks to wood..

Building a new box soon for 2 10" icons, thinking about vinyl/paint the front, and carpet the rest

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

The way to a seamless finish is to overlap with filler on all joints. Sand it down smooth with 150 then 220 grit. If you can feel ANYTHING, and I mean even if you think you can feel it, it'll show. Seal with thin coats of resin. Sand that down with 220, then 320. Primer using either auto primer, or a quick dry primer like Rust-oleum professional primer. Do not sand the primer (if it's that bumpy, you ****ed something up), rather wetsand it with either 800 or 1000 grit. 800 if you plan on putting down another coat of primer, 1000 if you want to get into the top coat immediately. Spray your top coat, about 6 coats per side. At this point, it should look pretty ****in good, almost like a car. To get it better, wetsand the top coat with something like 1500 or 2000 grit. Then, it'll actually look like a mirror when you top it again because there's no orange peel left. Polish it up with a good polish (menzerna fine cut with a white pad works well for the detailing crew, turtle wax polishing compound works for everyone else). Top it with a good carnauba if for home audio, or a synthetic sealant for car audio.