Split my SVT810 last night... HELP!

[billfitzmaurice]

most pro cabs are OSB not particle board, there is a difference.

Most pro-sound cabs are plywood, and high quality birch plywood at that, not OSB. OSB is what's used when the engineers are ignored and the bean counters get their way.

 

[bassmeknik]

"bean counting" has been part of engineering for decades. I buy what I can afford. The people at Ampeg produce the cabinet the way they think it will SELL, and it works for me. I like void free birch plywood but the price can't be justified on my budget. I seriously doubt the "bean counters" overruled the engineers as they are one and the same. Are you suggesting that some struggle occurred in the Ampeg camp over whether they should use birch ply or OSB???

 

[will33]

"bean counting" has been part of engineering for decades. I buy what I can afford. The people at Ampeg produce the cabinet the way they think it will SELL, and it works for me. I like void free birch plywood but the price can't be justified on my budget. I seriously doubt the "bean counters" overruled the engineers as they are one and the same. Are you suggesting that some struggle occurred in the Ampeg camp over whether they should use birch ply or OSB???

Have you read Jerrolds posts? He did used to work there after all. Hit OSB with a hammer and it'll make a hole, hit plywood with it and all you get is a dent. Engineers design things as best they can, beancounters cut every cost they can, they are not one in the same. Hopefully you end up somewhere in the middle without cutting too many corners.

 

[bassmeknik]

What size hammer???

Hey OSB is cheap stuff, I won't say it is great but I can afford it.

I have done demolition work and OSB doesn't puncture near as easily as you suggest, yes it's lower quality than birch ply. And I bet I can put a hole in your ply cab with the same hammer you put a hole in OSB with... all to subjective.

 

[will33]

Osb is just plain heavier and weaker, that ought to be enough reason not to use it. It also doesn't have near the resistance to flex quality plywood has. One of the most imortant qualities in a cab panel is that it does not resonate, ie: can't vibrate...can't flex.

If you want to use it on your own stuff, fine, it's your stuff but for one of the most well known companies in the industry to use it on one of the most well known, highest selling cabs in the industry is pretty sorry. They have gone back to plywood in the last few years though.