Thinking Inside The Box, or Wood Project Number Two: The Speaker Boxes (Part Two)

I’m still lacking the fabric fronting (which will be picked up today, probably, just like I said yesterday), but I was still able to get some work done yesterday by putting together as much of the subwoofer box as I could. The slideshow below details that process.

These are the plywood pieces that will be assembled into the subwoofer box.

It might be a bit hard to tell what’s going on here, but this is the lid. The smaller piece on top, 1/2″ from each edge of the larger piece, has been screwed on. (Dimensions: 11″x12 1/2″x1/2″ and 10″x11 1/2″ x 1/2″)

Next I screwed the walls to the floor piece with the same 3/4″ screws I’ve been using the whole project. (Dimensions: Walls 11 3/4″x12 1/2″ x 1/2″, Floor 12 1/2″x10″x1/2″)

After much trial and error on drawing the outlines, I got the cable cut out right in the back, and cut that out with the jibsaw after drilling in starter holes. Then I stuck it between the walls and realized that I’d made it 1/2″ too short. And that I had used up the last of my 1/2″ plywood already. So I’m just going to have to live with it, which should be fine, since it’s just the back of the box that no one will see anyways. (Dimensions: Is 10 3/4″x10″x1/2″, Should Be 11 1/4″x10″x1/2″)

And voila. Slap the lid on top and you’ve got yourself an almost finished subwoofer box.

Thinking Inside The Box, or Wood Project Number Two: The Speaker Boxes (Part One)

So now I get to use my workbench to make other wonderful things. This project is selfishly motivated, I must admit. I wanted some way to have my speakers at my desk without subjecting them to sawdust and the possibility of blunt force trauma, so I decided to build some elevated boxes for them. The first slideshow below shows the left speaker box I’d put together a few days ago, as well as a step-by-step documentation of what I did yesterday in getting the right speaker box to an almost completed stage. All that the two boxes are missing is the front. For those, I intend to stretch a piece of colored fabric to be picked up some time today, over the front, attaching it to two 3 1/2″x1″x1/2″ plywood strips across the top and bottom of the front.

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The other thing I built yesterday was the box for my phone, which will be suspended between the two speaker boxes. As with the speaker boxes, the phone box only lacks the front bit. The building process is shown below.

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So what’s left is to choose the fabric and attach the fronts, and build a box for the subwoofer.