Sometime in october 2010
The Hammond organ sounds great and all, but have you ever tried to move one? The M3 is just a spinet, but it still weighs roughly the same as a geo metro. I plan on bringing this thing to gigs so I needed to do something about the weight, or at least the bulkiness. A common remedy to this problem is to "chop" it, basically cutting the case down to a more manageable size. Heres a common example.
I didn't really like the idea of cutting up a classic hammond organ, so I decided to build a new cabinet instead.
The disassembly
The organs, uh, "organs"
I wanted to includes some similar styling to the B3, while also being a bit more unique. I decided to use red oak, combined with classic tweed cloth for that vintage look. Heres the start of the case.
After some veneer
And some mahogany stain
Heres the top wrapped in tweed
Some test fitting of the components
Got the cheek blocks covered
Heres a view of the guts
I wanted to still have easy access to the internals, so I decided to make the top hinge open. You can see the piano hinge on the back and a view of the top open.
I built the legs so that they can fold up when you take the Hammond off.
After some stain.
I got some nice heavy duty handles for carrying it.
I built the amp into a removable box that fits on the underside of the organ. The amp connects to the rest of the organ with two 12 pin connectors. I would like to find some nicer metal connectors though.
I used a standard computer type power plug, so if I loose the original a replacement won't be hard to find.
These are all the different pieces when it is all disassembled.
Nice work!
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