Yes i'd like to see you build a cab without fancy tools, that's what I'm looking for

I love how you timed the sounds to the music

You owned my like when you knocked the screws on the wood at the same tempo of the song.

AWH man, don't usually drop comments but just wanted to say that I really appreciate how well the video is edited and that you managed to get some of the tool work montages to be in time with the guitar backing track. awesome work in general my dude ! the hammer hits and drill being in time made my day

Your vidoes are always so well crafted and a real pleasure to watch. You must put a lot of thought and effort into storyboarding them and then recording them. Thank you.

I'm blown away by the quality of this build. This is a serious, road-worthy cabinet you've made here!

Great work! Love how you edited the video to synch up your tooling sounds to match the beat of the music - nice touch!

It became very beautiful. I think it was really nice that you chose to show a clever way to reuse furniture instead of just throwing it out.

I appreciate that you synced the hammering, drilling and stapling to the beat of the music.

You can make a cabinet's frequency response tunable by adding doors that act as bass ports you can open or close, in the middle of the back and closer to the edges. (The low frequencies that get boosted or cut depend on the path length from the back of the speaker cone around to the front where the backwave meets up with the front wave.) That should let you tune the cabinet to sound good with different speakers that have different resonant frequencies. You want a path length that will boost the bass somewhat below the speaker's resonant frequency, where it's falling off significantly. That will extent your useful bass response (if you want that.) Leaving the back closed will raise the speaker's resonant frequency because the compression of the air acts like a spring (really a gas shock absorbert) that slows the speaker cone motion and reverses it sooner than it would do that by itself in free air.

Love the accompaniment you've done for that guitar groove, using the sound of your tools 😁

Looks and sounds great man! I love the oil finish and that you included the attenuator too (I was just thinking about when you did that as a stand alone project a while back).

6:30 i love that you synced the hammers with the song ahahaha

Awesome build Merwin! I'd love to see you tackle a more stripped down hand tool build, sounds like another fun video!

Excellent job, Mervin. Congratulations, it just looks fantastic, taylor made looking. Cheers!

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this. It must be awesome to have a dovetail jig and a shop like that.

That amp and cabinet are absolutely beautiful.

Your amp & cab look soooo neat! Congratulations! 👏🔥

Absolutely great video cutting with scenes perfectly fitting the rhythm of the music. :D

The only thing that I saw that I'd change is that box joint jig... but hey, nice clamps! Seriously, well done on the build and the video :)

Cool job, man. I love it when people post their mistakes and "duhhhhh" moments. Great stuff. I'm inspired.

I LOVE it! Great job, beautiful cabinet. Combining wood shop with music - perfect. I now have some ideas to build one myself. Thanks.! (subbed)

"Too Bad, it aint you amp cabinet, its my amp cabinet and that's what I want" Perfect! Love it! Enjoyed that way too much myself, lol. Nice work dude.

Sweet! Looks & Sounds Bloody AWESOME!

Gangsta move going with the flatheads for the back panels. Nice work

AWESOME idea to put an Attenuator inside the cabinet. Great job

Very nice work, I have a 2x12 twin cab w/ 2x8ohm speakers and I reworked it to run either 2 8ohm heads or use the jumper to run a single 4 ohm. I usually run the twin at 8ohms w/ 2 of the 6L6’s removed.

looks great! would love to see a cab build w/ minimal tools as well

In 20,000 years when we're all dead this cabinet is so well built it'll still be around good job

It would be really cool to see a cab built with basic tools!

It turned out great!

Really nice job. Impressive woodworking skills and guitar playing

Looks amazing !

Nice work dude. Quality stuff.

That circle cutter deal was cool. I used to do that with a torch.

Good job on your build. It is a very good reference for the cab that I am building. It may be a good idea to put the T-nuts holding the bolts for the speakers on the other side of the board so they won’t pull out from over tightening, at least according to the instructional videos on the topic that I’ve seen (as well as my own experience).

This came out awesome. I have an early 60s epiphone combo that i wanna make a new cab for just to modernize it

I clicked the Like button when you timed the bass line with the screws being set. Good choreography!

I would ABSOLUTELY love to see you build a cabinet with the no-tools approach that matches my economy!!!

I knew it, the whole time I was thinking I bet this track playing in the back ground is him playing through his new cabinet! Looks great, sounds great too!

Nice wood working. You made Ikea pine look very good. For anyone who is not a regularly gigging muso, the reason for non-natural finishes on a working amp, one getting lugged in and out at least once a week, and having the uncaring use it as a table for beer, etc, is that vinyl, and especially Tolex, are massively durable and cover what my Dad (car guy) would call "A multitude of sins" when talking about car bodies. You'll get ten-twenty more years out of a fabric covered finish. But, as the man says if you're making it, it's your amp, and make what you want. Every time I made something ever, even if I fucked up (my attempts at making a stud wall for instance), at least I got an education.

Nice build Merwin! I really enjoyed the music, sounds great!

Good work and great edit to match the beat 👍🏼

Nice extra touch having the music in sync.

amazing Diy build and Video and Musik. A truely rare mix, great work

Looks awsome! Nice work, dude!

Just wanted to say, I see everybody asking for a simpler tool version so i know I'm in the minority here but I don't care what you use for tools. I enjoy the ideas & the basic plans, I'm not gonna go out & buy all the tools someone else uses for every project i do, I'm gonna steal the best ideas, combine them with mine, learn from mistakes & use the tools I've got to create something unique best suited for me. Great job! You're Editing is fantastic

Geez, for the amount of peasants bitching about this guy needing to do a simple hand tool version should have read the description and title. It's 2021 and you have to be specific in all your searches. Be happy that you're getting anything from this guy at all. He's clearly a devoted woodworker.

Oh wow great find with the wood! Yeah build one with hand tools. Getting straight even cuts is the hardest part. I just covered a cab in tolex last night for the first time. Came out pretty good but it was harder than building the cab!😂

I would love to hear the “why” of it.....what makes a great guitar/bass cabinet, and what changes you would make for different music or tonal variations. There is a world of difference between guitar amp/cabinets and Hi-Fi speaker cabs but I couldn’t tell you the why if it. Not a criticism, just a question and exploration. The practices of yesterday seemed propelled through time without question. It was a gorgeous cabinet and brilliant execution. Thanks 🙏 Love to be inspired. I’ve spent a lifetime cobbling together the tools...now to put them to work and not lose a finger.

Great video and awesome job. I'd Love to see a build with minimal tools as well.

Yay! What a great video. Well done!

Entertaining video! Great workmanship!

The hammer hits being in time with music were excellent ⚡♥️⚡

Wow that is awesome!

That will likely sound and operate better when you run either the two speakers in parallel or get a single 4 ohm speaker. It's not bad now, just not optimal. Great build video!

Lavoro Elegante! Bravo!

Hey thanks for the video! Just came across your channel. Kudos on using the onesie too.

Looks very nice! Great! Thank you for video!

The satisfaction of music in sync with tools noise.. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Good stuff, man. And cool music. Well done!

Damn dude. Awesome. Great Job!!!

A very cleaver skills young man congratulations

Good video. I suggest you watch Uncle Doug make a cabinet. I learned a ton from that amazing gentleman

That thing sounds so mean! Loving the videos!!

i'd love to see the version wit h less tools!

Quality content, and quality build as well

nice work. enjoyed the tunes too!

Fantastic piece man! 👍🏻

The video editing is just as awesome as the build.

You did a great job kid. Keep on rockin 👍

great project + workmanship. would love to see both cab and top covered in a nice tolex, tho.

Nice work

That's a sharp looking rig.

Hi Merwin ... Great Job ... 👏👏👏👏 But , Yes , there is a couple things you left out doing to make the job complete ........ The amps & separate heads were not all finished the same , hence the one big ( expensive ) problem evolved when higher power higher wattage that is Amps became the norm especially for Loud Rock & Loud Country Rock Bands came about....... Big Vibration from 10" , 12" , 15" , 18" , speakers in cabinet bottoms... So some of the Amp Manufacturers stated fixing them so the vibrations couldn't shake the Amp Heads off the Speaker cabs ....... Some , like Bandmaster , Even later Showmen had a chrome bracket under the head that swung out & secured to a thumb wheel bolt to lock it in place ....These replacement parts should be readily available from the Manufacturer even today ... Another trick I saw on this one Amp/Speaker Cab combo was where the Four Rubber Feet sat on top of the cabinet there were Four hole drilled partway through cabinet top & had a rubber or plastic insert glued into them & had the Four Rubber feet resting Safely Nestled Securely Down in those little pockets , Preventing the Head from Vibrating/Sliding off to the floor ....... Also , much depending on the height/thickness of your handle on the speaker Cab & the Thickness/Height of the Rubber Feet on bottom of the Amp Head on some Head / Cab Combos there would be a Slot cut through the Bottom of the Amp Head a little longer & a little wider than the handle do the head wasn't sitting on top of the Cab's handle rocking on top of it just waiting to vibrate off ....Some Manufacturers would just use thinner weak handles or bigger thicker feet on the heads while others opted to keep using the bigger thicker stronger handles & just simply cut slots in the bottom of the Amp heads , which incidentally helped with air circulation in cooling those Expensive Tubes down , you get a Two - Fer by cutting the slots out in the bottom of the Head Cab... Other than those couple Minor things , You built a beautiful pair of cabinets....GREAT JOB...👏👏👏👏

Great job.

A very cleaver guy nice cabinet a very good looking box congratulations man

Great video. Thank you

Just perfect, nice job boy, regards from Serbia.

Looks fantastic 👌. . Good job.

I think you made a brilliant job of the cabinet. If I was to nit pick I would say don't be in such a rush to do speaker grill cloth. It pays to do one long edge and get it lined up perfectly, then warm it with a heat gun when you wrap it over the 1st edge then repeat the same to get it tightly over the secong long edge. do the same with the short sides then finally warm the whole front area and you will see it tighten up beautifully. Great job though!!!

Great build. Thanks for all. Just have to use dimensions for, also, total enclose cabinet. They might be different for enclosed cab.

Nice build!

+1 for the hands tool cabinet making.

your last comment/question. i didn't see anything wrong, but i prefer a rounded edge to the woodwork. nice work young man.

this is such a good video

Awesome !

Good job!

Your timed jump cuts - nice work Sir! :-)

Your woodworking is the fills bro! New sub!!!!!!☕🔥🔥🔥

Yes please, do a video for dummies (like me!) also where to source your wood that is recycled? Any good ideas? I'd love to do a carbon neutral cab!

It’s pretty ironic that the reason I found your video is because I purchased that exact same Silvertone amp you have in the background towards the end, and I needed to build a cabinet for it. 😂🤘

Nice job!

Now to say I paying attention, loved the beat.

Really good call adjusting the grill plan that had the baffle pushed 2" back. I think, as I think you concluded, you were going to have all kinds of diffraction issues with the sound. I suspect your off-axis output would have been particularly terrible. Good pivot, great project!

very nice work :)

SO COOL

Terrific video, thank you. I'm curious how the sound varies between the factory amp and a replacement cabinet. I guess, the question is, what components of the whole unit really control the sound. I have an old pig of a bass amp that sounds great but looks terrible that I've been thinking about reworking for basically a piece of office furniture. It will never move, and not have a handle on top so that I can use it also as a surface maybe for a plant or something, that looks nice in the context of the room decor. Wondering if I'll kill the sound of it, though, by changing too many components.

Just stopping by to say this is an awesome work. Would've like if you had put an adhesive layer on it to see the steps, but hey, I get the love of naked wood. :) Alright, I'm gonna check your other vids now!

Thanks for the video little brother bravo. I have something like this planned. It will be bigger diminsions but ,a 2x12 cab and the wood uncovered.👍👍👍. I'm thinking possibly a partially covered cab with that brown western themed Tolex and brass furniture upholstery tacks. Not sure But I've got ideas in my head that might be dangerous😂😂😂