The Woodshop Shed

Guitar amp

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


Was supposed to be making (my first) electric guitar and/or a cherry dresser, but due to corona virus lock-down I had to resort to something I could make at home.This is what I made. Well OK, my brother did the electronics part, but that 1000 piece puzzle looked childishly easy ;)The first iteration was out of pine, but I had my measurements wrong and the contents wouldnt fit! 19 mm (appr 3/4 inch) pine sheet that you can buy from a big-box store was so delicate, that it kept blowing it up in the router. Or at the latest when I was removing the routing template attached with double sided tape. Or, since this seemed like a problem, routing over my line because the template was not properly attached. By the time I got the finished electronics from my brother and noticed the mismatch, I was ready to change the raw material to similar big-box store bought oak! That worked so well, that I changed course and ended up finishing this with Osmo oilwax instead of Tolex-wrap. By this time I also had my box-building routine dialed in due to repetition, repetition, repetition, and the oak version was ready for glue-up in less than an hour. My minimum sized pine sheets were so plentiful, that I wasnt too worried about making replacement pieces instead of investing in the proper process. With oak I didnt have extra, so I was a lot more thorough in preparing the routing of the opening for the front panel, as well as with the round-overs. At this stage I also changed the grill cloth for this cane version for a more vintage look overall.

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