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  1. Sea Chief

    Joint help.

    Im only keeping the pix up for a bit, like one of those yoofs 'app' newfangled things where you do a snap of yr junk, send it to your new gf & it vanish after a bit. or something.
  2. Sea Chief

    Joint help.

  3. Sea Chief

    Joint help.

    Im wondering now if I'm clamping too hard. As it seems this trait happens on the top & btm more than the sides, & I only use a diy set of clamps ( two bits of timber with 2 threaded rods linking them.. one each L and R side, I screw 2 nuts on the tops of them to put even pressure across & to...
  4. Sea Chief

    Joint help.

    Hi again Jacob, the rebating idea is interesting, but I just couldn't add the internal brace. This needs to be clear, hence f-joints chosen really. Thanks, SC
  5. Sea Chief

    Joint help.

    The amp has a speaker in it.princeton for eg.
  6. Sea Chief

    Joint help.

    Hi Doug71. I just don't have this exotic option, here though. I'd have to travel 100m to cardiff or something. No the problem is only with the pine I can get here, & fingerjointing it. Thanks, SC
  7. Sea Chief

    Joint help.

    The inside is seen Jacob, mostly empty really, but thanks for your thoughts.
  8. Sea Chief

    Joint help.

    Unfortunately an amp cabinet, needs to be both super-strong in the join type, & have no internal extra wood, as amp hardware goes up to the very inside edges. And 'fingerjointed' is just expected as it follows amp cabinet custom going back to late 1940's too. Pine is also inherrant to the sonic...
  9. Sea Chief

    Joint help.

    Understood thanks. Thing is out here, it's not only wild, but very moisture heavy too. I can't keep a stock of timber in, as it cups if cut into manageable sizes. I can only persue my idea, even if it has no followers, thst the laminated pine 'struts' of glue might be acting as a...
  10. Sea Chief

    Joint help.

    I'm adamant it would, but I cannot sell my boxes if hardwood, as the expense to make them is prohibitive, the customer doesn't want hardwood, & I cannot source hardwood out here anyway.. without travelling huge distances that is. It'd add msybe £25 to each box. I make no profit as it is on the...
  11. Sea Chief

    Joint help.

    I might try changing my glue to Titebond, from the reviews (I use a basic everbuild 501 currently ) but epoxy I think isn't that conjusive to doing so many 1/2" joints (25-30) on each box. And using less of it maybe too.. I do scrape off a lot of excess as a habit, just being super sure I've...
  12. Sea Chief

    Joint help.

    Hi Unicorn, good points. I agree this is sort of my avenue of thought, exhausting other avenues really. I might be inadvertently aiding the shrinking, somehow, sometimes. Its a costly timber now @£12 a metre so not gonna be a cheap set of tests. Appreciate all the replies chaps, anymore...
  13. Sea Chief

    Joint help.

    I agree it's a trait of wood, but disagree it's innevitable: from most of the cabinets I've made & those bought even decades old, they just do not & have not changed. Even changing hands many times over decades. All fingerjointed pine, all the same thickness, all covered by a very similar...
  14. Sea Chief

    Joint help.

    Hi Phil, thanks but unfortunately I can't change woods.
  15. Sea Chief

    Joint help.

    Hi again Pete. Thing is, some cabinets buck the trend & are stable. I can't try a different wood because it's a requirement that these are made in pine, also fingerjointing & shaping edges of even 18mm ply is a nightmare re chipout. And the cost.. birch ply it would have to be, is massively...
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