Turn broken speakers into a snappy media cabinet

Step 3 Cutting a door

There's a million (well, maybe not a million, but at least 7) different ways to cut a door out of a speaker box, so you don't have to do this the way I did. That said, one thing that you must do when working on this step is make sure that the door you cut out of your cabinet does not touch the ground. You want it to cut through the front face of the speaker box so that the door won't drag across the foor when you open and close it, but at the same time you want the cut to be inconspicuous enough that your end product will come out looking like a media cabinet disguised as a speaker, not a former speaker that you clearly butchered the bejesus out of for seemingly no reason. This can be a little tricky, but with some patience anyone should be able to pull it off.

First measure out and mark the lines of your cuts, then make those cuts. To make the awkward cuts on the side of my speaker box I first took a rotary tool and cut a groove into the lines where I was going to make my cuts (pictured), then took a hand saw and finished those cuts. You could probably use a jigsaw or a circular saw to accomplish this same end, but I'm not very good with those tools, so I took the old fashioned route.