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Carriage Bolts On your CP: Tacky, or Tasteful?

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ArtsNFartsNCrafts:
Just curious.  I'm considering just letting them shine on the CP.  I'm wanting to drill as little as possible...

DrumAnBass:
Use T-Nuts under plexi or lexan. Much nicer not to see them.

Afterburner:
Tacky.

T-nuts or use counter-sunk bolts.

I used countersunk bolts on all my controls.  Then overlaid the artwork to hide them.  Looks very clean.

Avrus:
I recently looked at some older style cabinets, and they all had carriage bolts showing over the CPO.

Franco B:
I used t-nuts on my first cab and they did the job fine.

I'm going to go for sunken carriage bolts on my cocktail purely because I'm going to CNC drill all the holes in CPs and counter bore the bolt holes from the top and fill the holes and then bolt the joys from behind. This should make it much stronger

T nuts will do the job fine though if you secure the t nuts properly. Drill the relief hole very slightly smaller than the diameter of the t nut. You will also want to use an adhesive to give the nuts some extra strength. 

If you have the ability to use sunken carriage bolts I would go for that option though, you can easily drill the holes and then route the 'counter bore' before filling the holes.

Thats if you want to hide the bolts that is, you can leave them proud but they look ugly IMO.

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