Would it be possibal to remove the carpet from my sub box thats made of mdf and paint it? i mean what would i need to do cover it it in bondo or resin?
you can paint it... not sure how great it will work. Carpet works good because it will flex and handle vibration from the enclosure expanding and vibrating. I would think bondo would get stress cracks. If you sand the mdf smooth it should look ok, just not sure the best thing to use where there are seems etc...
you could do a couple layers of glass over the top of the entire thing and it should work.
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why would you need glass on it?? if it's square just paint it like you paint any other wood.
sand it...apply your wood filler(or bondo even would work)...sand , prime, sand, paint,
no reason to put glass on it unless your making a fiberglass box.
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leave the carpet underneath, it helps absorb vibration and will help your box last longer.
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coat the carpet in resin, then apply a few more coats of fiberglass mat and resin. Use a gold body filler to get it smooth and deffinately block sand it.
Wit painted enclosures, you wouldn't want to have any cracks showing from assembling the box. Just filling them in would crack with bass instantly.
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sounds like covering it in silver viynal would be better
ill tell u what, no matter how much primer u put on mdf, it will eat it up and ask for more. and just when i thought it was saturated with primer, it sucked up all the paint i could throw at it. the edges where the mdf was cut, sucked even more, hardly tell its painted.... i hate the way my box looks.... but ppl dont see it their too busy staring at the bmf15
I'm bringin this one back from the dead. Sndsgood, did you use a high build primer and just hit it with a bunch of coats or what? I am probably gonna make a box later today and when I get around to painting it, I would like to be able to just prime it insead of using filler on the entire thing. How did the peice you painted hold up?
in all my different trys at this, i find it best(if u have the time to wait) is to prime the whole wood box after you have your seams filled and all that....then let it dry, prime it, let it dry, prime it and let sit for a few days. then go back and sand and prime again.
MDF like said above just soaks up primer like crazy. so get 2 maybe 3 coats on in one sitting. let it sit a few days so it can expand inside the wood, then prime again. i find it helps the wood not soak so much the 2nd time around
cool. thank you for the tip
way to not pay attention geeds lol
yeah lemur i just used standard spraycan high build primer wich is still pretty thin so it takes several coats for the wood to suck up all the paint. if your using a high build primer out of a spray gun it will probalb only take a couple of layers at most. and yeah if your doing a box this way yoru going to want to get it perfectly smooth with no holes or edges showing, i'd suggest rounding the edges as well for a cleaner look.
my piece held up fine after being in the car a couple years. think its a bit scratched up now but its been thrown around the garage and attic since i no longer use that box.
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thanks alot man. I'm probably going to fill all the holes and try to get it prepped sometime this week.
my box is painted.... all i did was used wood filler to till all the cracks, then i primed it, then i painted it with some textured paint.... looks perdy badasss in my opinion, and different then the norm...
