Cherry & Walnut Mini Cab

On a quest to build a cab for a Mini Rec I spent the last 7 months exploring cab designs, sizes, shapes and speaker types and sizes. I built a 20" x 20" x 12" 4x8 test cab a couple of months ago and really liked the sound and the 32lb weight. I bought some beautiful cherry and walnut to build a wood ***** version.

This is it with 23 coats of linseed oil and mineral spirits. The walnut is Peruvian and most of the figure is hidden in the darkness.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/russ_creations/11371908266/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russ_creations/11378180326/ - walnut detail

I plan to build a baffle for a 10" Gold wired solo and a pair of 8" Weber or WGS wired together.

Wow! That head/cab is beautiful! Looks like you've got some skills with woodworking! Love it

Very nice work!

That is some AWESOME work!

The mini rec looks a little strange in there... all that metal with the beautiful wood casing. LOL.

Those cabs are simply killer.

Great work Geeze!

man that is some sweet work right there. nice cab.

Can you show us a pic of the 4x8 cab? That should be interesting. How does it sound? What speakers did you use?

Here are the pics of both cabs as they stand.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/russ_creations/12198602614/ - The test 4x8 cab, popular & oil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russ_creations/12198802346/ - 4x8 guts, Webers, WGS
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russ_creations/12198606904/ - Cherry, 10" & 2 - 8"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russ_creations/12198597434/ - Cherry guts, Gold & Webers

I first tried 2 8" WGS speakers in a 2x12 cab and was amazed at the presence and authority they had. A bit thin on chugga metal but good for everything else. I still had to turn down the bass on the Mini. So I picked up two of the Weber Chicago 8"s. With four of them in the 4x8 cab very good sound. So built the cherry cab and got to missing the Gold I had so I mashed it into the cab as you see.

Current plan is to put a solo 12" gold in the cherry cad and am building a mahogany / maple / zebra wood 4x10 with Golds and Greens. Why? Because of the three sizes I REALLY like the sound of 10" speakers. I will be selling off some of the test cabs as I have too many and I keep finding beautiful wood.