mesa boogie amp head

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1 risky business

So I have a good friend that came to me with a project. He has a mesa boogie combo amp and he wants to remove the amp and build a box to make it a ...

2 messy glue, nice clean up

I got the pieces glued up and cleaned up. I used biscuits to join them. Thorrein suggested using splines. I wish I’d seen that before I did the bis...

3 box joints

I did get the finger joints cut last night after all and still had time enough to shovel snow. These pictures are dry fit. The joints are good. I’m...

4 making the face

Today I glued up 2 maple pieces and one pier decking ekki. The dark piece will be centered between the bottom of the amp face and the bottom of the...

5 amp face

Getting closer to completion. Yesterday my buddy came over and we rounded over the edges of the front, sanded and hogged out the hole for the logo....

6 Assembly and sanding

Got a little progress on this thing. My time had been taken up a lot with the baby and projects for my wife, so this is going pretty slow but you g...

7 finishing up

Over the week and this morning I finally got all of the construction tidbits out of the way. It’s finally ready for finishing. But before the amp c...