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Have you guys ever made mistakes in building your cab?
Funnel:
I'm asking this because I've made a lot of mistakes in cutting, measuring, drawing and whatnot. And it's slowly killing my motivation to go on with work on my cab. Any feedback guys?
leapinlew:
all my cabs have been perfect, everytime. :lol
If those are the kinds of mistakes your making, go buy a cabinet and convert it for your use. You'll build up your skills and before you know it, you'll be able to build your own cabinet.
DolansCadillac:
When I put my first cab together I hadn't done anything involving tools since high school shop, so I was in the same boat as you. Stick with it though, I found out that any mistake that isn't disastrous (meaning if it doesn't fall apart on you) usually needs to be pointed out to people before they even see it, once it's built. Plus the feeling once you get in the groove and things start coming together makes it worth all of the frustration.
BobA:
Always measure twice and cut once.
(Repeat)
Always measure twice and cut once.
That hopefully will get rid of your first 2 fustrations.
Drawing is highly dependent on if you are using a drawing program or just sketching things on a piece of paper. It is hard to use a drawing program for the first time to design something for the first time as well. Cardboard and some tape will give you the overall feel of a cab you are designing very quickly. You can build small scale mockups of floor standing cabs or full size mockups of bartop sized cabs.
Edwards80:
Mounted the monitor shelf too high so my I can't get the bezel/glass in properly yet. The monitor sticks out by about half a cm. </idiot>
Still need to get round to fixing it, rest of the cab is done so I end up playing the thing instead.
What makes this worse is the Turnarcades built the cab, all I really had to do was the shelf :S