An amp in between ukes

Hiya, sorry for not posting in a while. I hurt my knee and lost, well, the spring in my step. But I have made some stuff in the shop. I bought the amp part for an old guitar combo amp for very small money, and needed a caninet for it. Luckily I had some boards at hand. 

I went at them with a number 4 1/2 plane with a heavily cambered iron, as on a proper scrub plane. Going across the grain is super fast. 



Then I cleaned up all the ends with the shooting board and my number 5 Record plane, which is upgraded with a Hock iron. 



The the really fun part, dovetailing all the corners. I used the exaggerated 14 degree joint but I think I’ll work with a lesser angle next time. 



I glued a 5 mm mdf board to a 4 mm plywood to give the front some rigidity. 



And here’s a shot of me cleaning up the joints with my Veritas apron plane. 



I took some 7x7 mm strips and stuck them together with brown paper tape, so they stayes together while I scored, sawed and chiseled out down to the middle. The aim of course was to make a half lapped lattice. 



And here it is after putting the amp and speaker in. The really cool thing about it is it sounds great, both on clean and overdrive settings.