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Re: Cabinet Design and Construction

8/25/1999 5:36 PM
Bruce	Re: Cabinet Design and Construction OK. Box joints in cheap plywood are dubious at best. You'll need 13 ply Baltic birch for that and the fingers or tails and pins will have to be a little larger then you could cut if you were using solid wood. So use 3/4" plywood for the sides and baffles becasue it ismuch easier to work with. If you are not going into the cabinet business, then use yellowish carpenters glue and 1" to 1 1/4" drywall screws with 3/4"x 3/4" cleats on the inside to hold it together. All the screws will be on the inside and not visible from the outside. Just remember to countersink your holes for the screw heads first or the battens and cleats will crack along their grain. You can use AC interior or exterior Fir plywood but I prefer painter's grade birch plywood when going cheap. Other wise use the expensive furniture grade 60" x 60" baltic birch plywood as it has many more veneers then the painter's grade or AC fir plywood. If you have a table saw you can do a couple joinery tricks and eliminate the cleats and screws. There are many "how to build a speaker cabinet" site on the net. If you need some URLs, I'll repost. Bruce

8/25/1999 5:36 PM

Bruce

Re: Cabinet Design and Construction

OK.

Box joints in cheap plywood are dubious at best.

You'll need 13 ply Baltic birch for that and the fingers or tails and pins will have to be a little larger then you could cut if you were using solid wood.

So use 3/4" plywood for the sides and baffles becasue it ismuch easier to work with.

If you are not going into the cabinet business, then use yellowish carpenters glue and 1" to 1 1/4" drywall screws with 3/4"x 3/4" cleats on the inside to hold it together.

All the screws will be on the inside and not visible from the outside.

Just remember to countersink your holes for the screw heads first or the battens and cleats will crack along their grain.

You can use AC interior or exterior Fir plywood but I prefer painter's grade birch plywood when going cheap. Other wise use the expensive furniture grade 60" x 60" baltic birch plywood as it has many more veneers then the painter's grade or AC fir plywood.

If you have a table saw you can do a couple joinery tricks and eliminate the cleats and screws.

There are many "how to build a speaker cabinet" site on the net.

If you need some URLs, I'll repost.

Bruce

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