So my idiot brother wants me to build him a box

[Ruffy 10+ year member]

forget the jigsaw...
watch ebay for a couple days and grab a high quality used router for 50 bucks shipped... you can make a circle jig with a regular *** piece of wood and... theres your box //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

personally, i'd decide on a height for the box,build the bottom with fiberglass, cut a piece of wood to fit the contour of the bottom of the box across the front (think template + router or jigsaw + sanding), and another for the back, then make sides and attach a flat top piece...

i'm also a fan of shimming the seats for extra mounting depth...

I have other uses for the jigsaw. Im building amp racks and flush mounting things. My current jigsaw wont do a straight cut at all. The blade holder doesnt keep the blade from flexing. The entire saw is jittery and jerks/jumps and vibrates heavily during use. It's nothing like the good jigsaws i've used at work.

As for all that other stuff. Fiberglass = more work and cost. I get free 3/4" mdf. I dont have anything thinner than 3/4" though. Thats a problem seeing as I cant make a circle jig out of that. I dont get free resin and glass. + I dont have a respirator so thats out of the question. In the future i'd like to learn to glass but for now thats just a pipedream.

Still deciding on things. If I were to get the jigsaw I could feasabily finish one of my amp racks in under a week. I still dont have my subwoofer amp so my subbox can be put on hold for the time being. My next big purchase is going to be front components.

Really. I have to talk to my brother about it. See what he wants.

 

[BassAddictJ 5,000+ posts]

shim my friend

shim

 

[UrbanSounds 10+ year member]

They have prefabs that go behide the seats and under the seats. this way your bro can have 4 10.

I put 2 kicker comps under that seats for a guy who already had 2 8s (vegas) behide the seats, and after adding the two 10s he was happy. if you like I can ship you a prefab box for $130.

Peace

 

[Rawr-DQ 10+ year member]

Take the money, tell him you need (cost of prefab) for materials, buy the prefab, tell him you made it, buy yourself some new tools.

=p

 

[Ruffy 10+ year member]

Take the money, tell him you need (cost of prefab) for materials, buy the prefab, tell him you made it, buy yourself some new tools.
=p

as much as I wish I could, i live with him atm. It's not something I could just hide/ Cant go one day with nothing then next day have a shiny new box all carpeted up and pretty.

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

http://caraudio911.com/tutorials/CircleJig/

there is your tutorial for cutting perfect circles.

just follow the line.

 

[Ruffy 10+ year member]

http://caraudio911.com/tutorials/CircleJig/



there is your tutorial for cutting perfect circles.

just follow the line.

thats how i've been making my circle. doesnt stop me from screwing it up. with the blade flexing with each turn of the jigsaw the circle ends up wrong. Instead of a straight cut through the wood it cuts slanted

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

go for the black and decker then...thats the one that i have.

 

[Ruffy 10+ year member]

go for the black and decker then...thats the one that i have.

do you have the one with the laser guide on it? 20 bucks more. Doubt I'll get that one. As much as I'd like the feature It's probably unused on a jigsaw since im buying it more for it's orbiting action

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

nah i use guides when i gut, so that wouldnt do me any good.

plus i can follow a line fairly well.

 

[Ruffy 10+ year member]

nah i use guides when i gut, so that wouldnt do me any good.
plus i can follow a line fairly well.

i'd like to see you follow a line with my current jigsaw

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

lol if its that bad, i'd throw it away

 

[idiot 10+ year member]

i'd like to see you follow a line with my current jigsaw

So just cut a few mm interior of the circle and then sand down to the line to get your perfect finish. I always cut my circles with a ($20-30) jigsaw and I haven't had any problems yet.

 

[johnson 10+ year member]

Cut with jigsaw a little smaller than what you would normally cut and use a rasp file to get it to be almost perfect circle.

 

[Ruffy 10+ year member]

So just cut a few mm interior of the circle and then sand down to the line to get your perfect finish. I always cut my circles with a ($20-30) jigsaw and I haven't had any problems yet.

Haha Tried that. the hole ended up too big by the time I rmoved the bad parts. No way to screw the sub in with more then 2 screws. Took me hours to do as well because of the angled cut.

I'll take pics of my various attempts later. Right now Im heading off to pay my License plate tags/fee's and going to lowes/walmart and homedepot to see what they got.