Build Your Own Guitar Amp Speaker Cabinet

Slide the speaker board in place so it sandwiches the mesh and nail in place.

Build your own guitar amp speaker cabinet.

One day i started to scribble a cabinet on a piece of paper that was flying around and half an hour later the plan was laid out. It will help you install the amp and the speaker in the cabinet. A decent guitar cab is essential to any good rig. After doing the final sanding your cabinet is ready to use.

As guitar speakers are different so their cabinets are different. Building a guitar amp cabinet comes down to proper planning patience and having the right tools for the job. Wire the speaker to the input jack and nail it in place. Sure guitar and the amp are critical to the sound but you can have the best guitar amp set up in the world it ll still sound poor running through your pc speakers or something similarly unsuitable.

Primarily the cabinet is a convenient way of housing the speaker so it should be solidly built to ensure no joint vibration unpleasant buzzing and be strong. While you choose your work make sure you have done thorough research as there can be various things related to woodworking. Cut the mesh to the inside size of the guitar speaker cabinet and glue in place. In my recent holidays i wanted to tinker a little bit and so i decided to build my own 1 12 guitar speaker cabinet.

You can use these to either make the cab or to get a general idea of what a solid cab should look like. I locate and drill the speaker bolt holes and screw the completed baffle onto the cabinet. Build the box using the nails but keeping the back open for now. As you might know i m really into guitars and guitar equipment right now.

With an amp shelf resting on ledges that are glued and screwed to the sides and the speakers mounted stage one of the cabinet build is complete. The thing is guitar cabs can be expensive. Measure everything several times before cutting and you should be fine. On that note here are some free speaker cabinet plans.