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When I retired I joined the local Men's Shed where we have a range of professional and semi professional woodworking equipment and a decent workshop, which is where I'll be putting them together. I also have a local timber merchant that will cut the ply to plan, they charge 60p a cut. Just hat the quote for all the ply for two cabinets, 12mm, cut to size at around £45. At least I know the panels will be square and it will all fit in the boot of the car. Not sure yet if I'm going to spray the finished cabs with a textured paint or cover with van carpet, fittings will be from AliExpress as I used for the 1x12 I made. All up I expect the cabs to come in at around £50 each, all up. So not too bad.

Phil, Many thanks for the reply. If I need to change the drivers for Celestion ones I can do that once the cabs are built. My plan is to first off use the cross over from the Ashdown cab and see how that goes. Thanks again for the feedback.

I appreciate I'm a little late to this party, but I've decided to use this design (appreciated) to build 2 1x10 cabs. I'm my 7th decade and have only recently, in the last two years, got back into playing bass. I played semi professionally many years ago. My playing now is mainly jam sessions and the occasional open mic with a friend, hopefully more in the future. I've noticed that many venues, I live in Essex in the UK so it's usually pub's and small bars, don't like a bass directly into their PA, which I can understand. So I have a small 30W Laney bass combo that I lug around, but it's not really that good. OK in a small jam session, but gets lost on volume and sound quality, as it would, anywhere else. I also have Laney RB8 and RB5 combo's but at my age these are also too heavy to lug around for a 3 number open mic. So I decided I needed to do something about this, hence the plan to build 1x10's, which will get used with a TC Electronic BQ250 Bass Head. Looking round for speakers, being retired I'm on a tight budget here, I recently came across an Ashdown 2x10 with good speakers, but the cabinet covering had seen better days, for £35. so the plan is to pull the speakers, crossover, etc. and sell the cabinet on. After a bit of a long winded introduction, now to the point of the post. Wanting to have the minimum of wastage when buying the plywood, I used an online tool called OptiCutter,https://www.opticutter.com/, to work this out. It looks like I can get both cabinets out of one half sheet of play and one quarter sheet. I've attached a copy of the cutting layout in case anyone is interested. If it helps I'll update this post as I go along with the build. Once again apologies for the long post. David 10 in speaker cabinet cutting list for two cabinets.pdf

First I'd like to thank those above for their replies so far. It looks like I'll have a go at the Basschat 1x10, or two of them. One with horn and one not. For those interested, this is the state of the cabinet I bought, which I'll look to pass on once the speakers are out.

I'm looking for some help. I'm in my seventh decade and now just play for pleasure, doing the occasional open mic night with a friend. The venues we go to are quite small and more often than not they don't like a bass being plugged directly into their PA system, so I'm looking to put together a very small, lightweight and portable rig that I can take anywhere and either DI into the PA system if the house is OK with that or use directly. I have a few larger amps and combo's but having arthritis makes it a challenge to move them about, especially when just doing two or three numbers. As part of the plan I have a TC Electronic D Class bass amp on order and recently picked up a used Ashdown 2x10. Which was very cheap as the cab is a wreck but the speakers are fine and want to mount the speakers in a pair of individual 1x10 cabinets that I can pair up if the need arises. I have the skills to do this, in addition being retired I have the time to make the cabs, and though my local Men's Shed have access to a full range of professional tools and woodworking machinery, what I don't have are any plans or designs. I've just completed a ported 1x12 cab using an unmarked speaker which came out OK, however I'd like to be a little more "professional" with the 1x10's. If anyone knows of any plans or designs that I could use I'd be very grateful.