So here are the ones that got away!!

Here is a brief history of cabinets that have already sold. Use this as a palette for coming up with your own ideas for your custom cabinet!

 

Cabinet 000 - The Original

This was the one that got me started with building speaker cabinets. I built this one for myself to stuff under the stage at the church. It sits in a mic'd isolation box and I can crank my tube heads to that lovely sound without torching the stage volume. The tweed was left-overs from other projects and I used a fabric napkin for the speaker face!!

I love this logo!! It is off a furnace from a church in Campbell River. We were replacing the furnaces and before they hit the scrap heap I grabbed the logos! I originally had thought of calling my company Airco but that did not have a guitar ring to it! But I guess you can see where I got the GuitarArt and Klassen logo ideas from!!

I went with 2 back panels so you can have either open or closed back.

 

 

 

Cabinet 005 - $375 - unloaded - SOLD!

A great friend of mine, Matt Sanderson, gave me some panels and wood from a piano that he was dismantling. So started the next installment of "What Can i Build With This?"!!

Under all the walnut veneer is a nicely aged and music saturated poplar!! (What!?! Cost saving in an antique piano!! Shock of all shocks!) Using the brand new dovetail jig I had purchased, I went with dovetail joints that worked out very well in my eyes. Strong and solid! More cabinets with dovetails to come...

Unloaded at his point but 005 will of course comes with the option of going with either open back configuration or closed back configuration.

 


 

Cabinet 003 - $575 loaded - SOLD!

This cabinet is SOLID MAPLE!! It too was reclaimed locally. To tame some of the brightness I went with a poplar back and it worked great! In a moment of shear lunacy I decided to go diagonal with the fabric on the front. Was a lot of figuring and extra work but I am very pleased with the result. Then to pretty it up I went with real leather handles and 'aged' hardware. The fancy buckles on the front were the 'paz de la resistance'!!

Each cabinet gets an info sheet telling about the construction and bits installed.  003 is loaded with a Celestion Vintage 30 and a Celestion G12 M Greenback (one of my favs) The cabinet sounds great wound right out. Both speakers went through my Speaker Spa! It is a process that helps break in the speakers to get them to their best sound as soon as possible.

003 of course comes with the option of going with either open back configuration or closed back configuration.

This cabinet was sold to Chris, a great guy in Coquitlam! Let it rumble!

 

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Cabinet 007 - 1x12 Isolation Cab 

Necessity is the mother of invention! No more then in this case! I love my old tube heads opened up and load, but we all know that does not work in many playing situations. So after a visit to Act 1 music in Langley I was inspired to take a stab at an Iso Cab.

I looked a few cabs and built this off of dimensions that I felt would have the best characteristics I wanted. The biggest complaint against Iso Cabs is a boxy sound. So I opened this one up a bit, slightly larger then most cabs out there. Because this one is going to spend most of it's time in one place I went with decorative exterior vs. durable. But it does look good up close!

Details: 11ply Birch Plywood, Angled speaker baffle to reduce standing waves, Acoustic insulation wrapped in fabric, Permanent mounted goose neck/mic clip with external plugin, External speaker plugin, Celestion Gold speaker.

If you are interested in having one of these built for you, contact me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., I would love to talk more!

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Cabinet 008 - Piano Tall - $475 - SOLD!

A great friend of mine, Matt Sanderson, gave me some panels and wood from a piano that he was dismantling. This is the second (and last!) cab to be built using these panels. Similar to the other cab I built with this wood, except that I added 2" to the heaight to give it a little different look.

Under all the walnut veneer is a nicely aged and music saturated poplar!! (What!?! Cost saving in an antique piano!! Shock of all shocks!) This one has dovetail joints for the top. Strong and solid! The top on this cab has book-matched walnut veneer that really stands out with the finishing. I have not put a handle on yet because I think the owner might agree that the top is too nice to muck up with a handle!

008 got a Celestion Vintage 30. Classic sounding speaker with just the right amount of high end sparkle. This cab also comes with the option of going with either open back configuration or closed back configuration.

Beautiful cabinet if I say so myself!