My first Cabinet Build, and my Lil Dawg 35 watt Chassis

[giogolf]

Hey all well here it is my first ever attempt at amp cabinet building. The chassis is a 35 watt Lil Dawg D'lux take on a 5E3 circuit. Check out those beefy transformers. I ordered some Tweed Cloth but I think I am gonna hold off for now and just enjoy it a bit.

[JohnnyCrash]

How thick are those front baffle cleats?

I built my own 5E3 cab too and was noticing how some guys like Neil Young had to put in more baffle screws over the years. So I decided to go with 3/4" thick cleats on my build (as well as a slightly more angled baffle and deeper cab).

Very cool cab build!

I've never really been interested in a 35w since I have several amps in that wattage, but a 35w 5E3 might be the best amp if I had to only have one for good :)

Your amp is gorgeous!

[Rob DiStefano]

Great job, leave the wood uncovered, stain and clear coat!

[791979]

Nice cab, I want to do that myself one day. How did you come up with dimensions & a plan?

[6942]

Very nice work!!
My woodworking skills are.....er.....marginal.

Steve

[giogolf]

Thanks guys.

Some answers:
The entire cab is made from 3/4" premium select pine. I used 1/2" bow joints, and all the screws are #10-32. To attach the baffle, I used 2" 10-32 with dome screws, t-nuts on baffle, and a lock nut for security reasons.

As for the dimensions, I wanted a bigger cabinet just incase I wanted to try different speaker combos, like 1X15", or 2X10". I took the original specs of 20w X 18h X 9d and added 2" all around. I also wanted a roomier cab do to the increased power of the chassis.

Part of me wants to put a light amber stain, and lacquer it, but who knows. But have any of you guys seen the sunburst Blues Junior? That would be a really cool to do.

To Johnny: At 35 watts, this amp almost covers everything for me. At volume 2 this thing is almost at full volume and jangly clean, at 3ish it starts breaking up. I have a 68 Twin, and this is almost as loud. It will not due Twin clean, but it does things that the Twin cant. Right now its my main amp for everything.

[Little Ricky]

Can fingerjoints be done without a table saw?

Awesome job, BTW

[Hoodster]

Originally Posted by Rob DiStefano

Great job, leave the wood uncovered, stain and clear coat!

+1!

[Shepherd]

Originally Posted by Little Ricky

Can fingerjoints be done without a table saw?

Awesome job, BTW

You can do them with a handsaw, jigsaw or a router, just takes a little longer.

[studio1087]

Originally Posted by Rob DiStefano

Great job, leave the wood uncovered, stain and clear coat!

+2

Find a really dark stain that will still allow the woodgrain to come through. It looks GREAT!

John

[chabby]

Heres mine which is a Lil Dawg 25 Watter with a pretyy well-tilted baffle. This amps does loud and clean too with the C12N in it and could get even cleaner with a different speaker and mine is about like a Delux Reverb in loudness. Went real deep with my cab and it nmakes it even louder in my opinion and this cab is damn resonant too -almost adds reverb-LOL But I love it. I used Varathan oil finish with a clear coat of Poly for toughness and shine. It all Honduran Mahogany except the baffle is finish quality birch and totals3/4" thick the marks on the side are just shadows cast by the amp next to it.

[ibobunot]

Originally Posted by Rob DiStefano

Great job, leave the wood uncovered, stain and clear coat!

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[chabby]

That is very cool Ibobunot.

I would also oil/clear coat versus tweed. Its can more easily be repaired and isn't tweed like everything else seems to be. Bring out the beauty of that pine - why cover up such nice work and finger joints?

[giogolf]

I dig the blue, nice slanted cab.

[jaydawg]

The front valence set up on Ibobunot's cab is a much better setup. Its the same way I build them. You get a lot more glue surface and your not dealing with an endgrain glue joint.