Steve A
Chameleon Enthusiast
You do. Trust me. The biggest hurdle I had was pushing myself to do it. I really don't do anything like this. I kept it as simple as basic as I could for me to do it my own way, while still accomplishing getting it to be how I want it so that I can set it up.
You can easily do this without making wood joints. That was the one thing that I'd say truly required some skill, which I don't have. My joints on this are awful. If you saw the enclosure in person you'd see that better IMO. But if I had the right tools and perfect wood, it would have been better. With that being said I used wood glue to seal the joints together, and then secured them with screws. So it doesn't look great, but the functionality is there and functionality is what I focused on here the most.
The #1 tool if I were to do this all over again, would be a flat blade for my table saw (you can get cheap table saws that work well at lowes/home depot!). If I had a flat blade I am confident I'd nail those joints. I also was on a time constraint, so I had to rush myself at times and had to "settle" for some of the work I did. If you plan this super far in advance, take your time, get the right tools, it honestly would be much easier than you'd think.
If you decide to give it a shot, shoot me a message and I will walk you through as much as I can. Don't be afraid. You can start very simple like I did, and simply make a cuboid structure to begin with, measuring to fit the space you have for it, and then go from there.
