For my dad's little p.a. system he's putting together, I designed and built some subwoofer cabinets with the help of several techtalk forum members. Bill Fitzmaurice, Chris Roemer, Brian Steele, your advice steered my design into something better than it might have been.
I made the cabs out of pine plywood and of course it's soft. First outing and there were some minor dents and scrapes. As expected. I haven't finished these at all, yet, so they're still bare wood. I'm aware of many popular options including duratex and carpet.
I think the first line of defense will be cabinet covers. Still leaves them open to damage after setup, but reducing travel damage should help a bit. Hobby Lobby has fabric as cheap as $3 for 58" x 36" so all I need is something else inexpensive with some small amount of cush. Felt is pretty cheap so that sandwiched in a couple layers of fabric should be effective against most travel sliding damage short of blunt force trauma. Open to more ideas on inexpensive material.
One of my ideas for finish is matte polyurethane. I saw a video where a woodworker took a can of satin poly and let it sit a while, then carefully poured off the top layer. So he was left with poly that had a concentrated amount of the pariculate that removes gloss. The result was pretty nice. What's your experience with repairing poly with a recoat?
Another idea is simply not applying a finish, but only applying india ink. What I like about india ink rather than spray paint is that it's much easier to get an even black finish without worrying about getting too much. And it's way, wayyy faster. No VOCs, either!
I made the cabs out of pine plywood and of course it's soft. First outing and there were some minor dents and scrapes. As expected. I haven't finished these at all, yet, so they're still bare wood. I'm aware of many popular options including duratex and carpet.
I think the first line of defense will be cabinet covers. Still leaves them open to damage after setup, but reducing travel damage should help a bit. Hobby Lobby has fabric as cheap as $3 for 58" x 36" so all I need is something else inexpensive with some small amount of cush. Felt is pretty cheap so that sandwiched in a couple layers of fabric should be effective against most travel sliding damage short of blunt force trauma. Open to more ideas on inexpensive material.
One of my ideas for finish is matte polyurethane. I saw a video where a woodworker took a can of satin poly and let it sit a while, then carefully poured off the top layer. So he was left with poly that had a concentrated amount of the pariculate that removes gloss. The result was pretty nice. What's your experience with repairing poly with a recoat?
Another idea is simply not applying a finish, but only applying india ink. What I like about india ink rather than spray paint is that it's much easier to get an even black finish without worrying about getting too much. And it's way, wayyy faster. No VOCs, either!
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