Harp amp

[Rick Beko]

About a month ago I was talking to a good friend of mine that is a professional harmonica player. He had bought 4 speakers and wanted to build a cabinet so he could connect it to his amp on stage. I have 5 guitars of my own so this project started to interest me. He sent me a picture of what he would love to have but would be too pricey when on a budget....so I said "I will build you a cabinet for those vintage speakers." Being on a budget he asked me to build him a cabinet out of pine so he could mount 4 x 10" speakers that came out of an old Leslie cabinet. These are not the typical speakers you would use for a secondary cabinet but heck...he is the pro.

Knowing what little I know about wood I just could not bring myself to use pine. Keep in mind he does this for a living and pine would not stand up going gig to gig and I did not want to deal with tear out on the joints. I have not presented this to him yet but I hope he likes my modification.

[Rick Beko]

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[Brian MacDonald]

Nice work! I'm sure he'll be proud of it!

[glenn bradley]

That looks sweet. Nice Dobe too. Does your buddy use a green hornet mic? That and those speakers oughta really growl.

[Rod Sheridan]

Very nice work Rick.

Aren't you concerned about cabinet resonances using solid wood?

Regards, Rod.

[Rick Beko]

Does your buddy use a green hornet mic?
He uses a JT30 Bullit mic with a chrystal element. He is into the vintage sound so it should sound good.



Aren't you concerned about cabinet resonances using solid wood?
One of the reasons I went with canary wood is because it is used to build speaker cabinets so it should have good acoustics.

[Rod Sheridan]

Thanks Rick.........Boy that was a good response.....I learned something new on the forum today.


Regards, Rod.

[george wilson]

Amp cabinets do add to tone. His should be just fine. the cabinets are usually plywood or pine. Canary wood is harder,and those speakers are not real high powered ones.

[Jim Becker]

Very nice work!!

[John Thompson]

Very nice work.. I mis-read at first and was expecting pine cabinets and that is just not pine I saw.. duh.... :o

Sarge..

[Barry Rowland]

Wow! Nice cabinet!

[Jarrod McGehee]

Wow nice speaker cabinet and that canary wood looks nice. Good work

[J. Z. Guest]

Beautiful. I love the dovetails & the finish.

If you really want it to hold up, you might consider putting on some of those metal corners.

http://images.rockler.com/rockler/images/27508a-lg.jpg

[Rick Beko]

Thanks for the feedback.


If you really want it to hold up, you might consider putting on some of those metal corners.

I suggested the metal corners but he wanted to keep the cabinet as is. It will be interesting to see how it holds up.