Handle on a Trainwreck head?

[RJ Guitars]

For the Industrial Look... you can do it this way.

That looks like one step away from a tar & feather look!!! Gives me an idea.

Makes me think of Dr. Tar and Professor Feather...

Do I hear your wife asking in the background "have you seen my pink boa"?

[MCK]

Do I hear your wife asking in the background "have you seen my pink boa"?

Yes!

[LarryLarry]

I think I've been hijacked!

Ok, I'm thinking of using small finishing nails as dowels as follows:

1. Hammer small finishing nails in to one side of the 45 miter.
2. Carefully press the joining piece down on the nail heads to create small dents in the adjoining piece of wood as markers.
3. Drill holes where the dents were created and use a rubber mallet to tap the pieces together.
4. Gently tap all the pieces apart, apply glue and hammer them all together (after letting the 1st coat of glue dry for 10 min or so).
5. Use 2 band clamps that have 4-90 degree corner brackets to clamp it all together.

Does this sound practical in terms of putting a handle on the head box and having it stay together?

[MCK]

I would simply glue an additional strip of wood on the inside of that joint.

[NickC]

Do you have access to a biscuit-joiner?

With some careful aligning, you could join those 45 degree cuts with glued in wood "biscuits". It'll never be as strong as dovetails, but close enough.

http://woodworking.about.com/od/toolseq ... Joiner.htm

[LarryLarry]

I was trying to avoid if possible additional strips of wood inside the cabinet.

I was able to borrow a biscuit joiner from a friend, now I need to figure out where and how many biscuits to use.

[LarryLarry]

Wow, glue dries faster than I thought and those biscuits expand very fast! Couldn't get as tight a fit as I could dry...

[zambo]

you could always 45 the corners etc. and glue it together, then when its dry drill small holes both vertically and horizontally and dowel it with small dowels and glue. its not very hard and it is pretty strong.

[LarryLarry]

Cab sanded

[MCK]

Looking great!!!

Here's a stupid question of the day...

"fitting the chassis to drill the chassis mount holes"

How do you mark the hole locations accurately with a finished amp in the chassis?

[pablogt]

Basically, you build a clear plastic drill template. Check the Express build guide.

Pablo

[jeff12]

Nice looking cabinet. I plan on trying a miter joint cabinet soon and it is nice to see other members work to plan my venture. I like the idea of biscuits.
How many total did you use?

[LarryLarry]

For the chassis holes, I didn't have any clear plastic so I did this:

1. Made a cardboard template
2. Slid in the chassis and pencil marked the front edge
3. Took out the chassis and put the template in
4. Marked the back 2 screw holes
5. Meaured where the 2 back screw holes were on the chassis
6. Flipped the cab upside and pencil X'd the back 2 holes from my measurement
7. Set the template (upside down) on my 2 back screw hole marks
8. Marked the front holes
9. Double checked the hole spacing by measuring it on the chassis
10. Drilled

[MCK]

Thanks for the ideas. I will use a cardboard template. Makes a lot of sense.

[NickC]

Here's another way of joining 45 degree miter cuts using biscuits:

[img:300:226]http://www.wwgoa.com/media/images/build ... iner-4.jpg[/img]

Miter the top. Biscuit joinery is great way to add strength and aid in alignment (which can be tricky!) of miter joints. Make your 45-degree cuts to form the joint, and then set your biscuit joiner’s fence to 45-degrees (or 135-degrees if your biscuit joiner has this feature). Perform a test on scrap to ensure that your setup is right. Be sure that the biscuit slot does not blow out the side of the material, and if it does, use a smaller biscuit. Once your test setup is proven, mill the slots on your cabinet members. Again, positioning as many biscuits as you can in these joints.

http://www.wwgoa.com/articles/one-great ... it-joiner/