how can you finish an mdf box,

[newls1]

here are some pics of my boxes that I have sprayed on fleckstone.. TAKES A TON of bondo tho, AND A LOT OF TIME!! cause if the MDF isnt finished right (All edges bondo'd, all screw holes filled, corners are perfect) the outcome looks like shit, and you just wasted a bunch of money, and time... Anyways, here are the pics

4 18"s ported box

1 8" T-Line box

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OP: there are plenty of things you can do to finish your box. Since you have mdf i personally think it would look like garbage if you were to stain the wood and then varnish it. MDF is just a pile of sawdust glued together so if you stained it and then varnished it, to me it would look like a soggy cardboard box.

You can do what newls1 showed but it does take a lot of bondo, sanding, preperation, time and patience to do.

Another thing you could try to do would be to get some finished wood in a thin sheet and glue that to the outsides of the box, then you can stain and varnish it at your own preference.

Now for what id say to do which isnt all that hard to do and was a lot cheaper and easier for me was to carpet the enclosure. I went to lowes and bought a roll of indoor/outdoor carpeting that had a very minimal amount of ribbing on the carpet pattern and was about 1/8 thick so its was really heavy duty which i liked. I then got a tub of indoor/outdoor carpet glue and some small fine tooth spreaders to apply the glue. I first wiped the box down with a damp cloth, let it air dry, centered the box on the roll of carpet and then applied the glue on the entire box's sides and stapled/stretched it down to make it flat.

Now for some this can be a little tedious because you have to line everything up right on the dot, stretch the carpet as you go along to keep it wrinkle/bubble free, and take a nail gun every so often to hold down the seams/edges well. Since my dad installed carpeting for years i had all the tools and tricks of the trade on my side but it is really not as hard as it seems to do. Just start halfway on one side, work your way around the box and then finish that side on the first half finished side. When you come to the seams you need to overlap the carpeting, take a very sharp knife and press down hard to cut both pieces of carpeting and then you apply the glue and nail it together. If i can do a box wrap you can too man.