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First off, thanks to Paul. He really hit one out of the park here. These little guys are amazing! Low end you can feel in your chest from a really modest size. Rich, detailed, well balanced sound. If you're on the fence about building a set I highly recommend them.
Anyway...
Started off as usual on the milling machine and rotary table:
Cut all the driver holes for flush mount and added a little roundover to the back edge of the woofer cutouts so those little HiVis can breathe:
Hurricane Nuts with a little polyurethane glue to hold them in place:
For the ports, I cut the tubes .250" short and then cut some flat-bottomed holes into the rear panel, leaving .250 of MDF to get to the 6" required length:
Glued them in place with some polyurethane glue and then trimmed off the excess with a flush-trim bit on the router table. I owe someone here thanks for this idea... wish I could remember who, but this is a great way to do PVC ports. Super easy:
Added a couple dowels for bracing... Bit of a bird's nest of wires around the crossover at this particular moment...
I really didn't feel like painting this time around. I was going to wrap the boxes in Tolex (like a guitar amplifier,) but I remembered I had a bunch of this fake carbon fiber kicking around. Unlike actual carbon fiber, the stuff is really easy to work with and actually looks the business. Anyway, I had bought a bunch that I never ended up using and I wanted a dark color to make those woofers pop a little, so it seemed like a good opportunity to use it up. This was also infinitely less effort than painting. I just stuck it all down with 3M Super77 and then carefully trimmed the excess with a sharp razor:
The front, back and sides are all one piece with the inevitable seam on the back panel:
One last shot of the flush-mount and fake carbon weave:
There is one strange thing going on, though... I have a bit less high-end coming out of one of the speakers than the other. I double checked the crossovers and they're both correct. Not really sure what's going on. It's really slight, but I can definitely hear it if I A-B them with a balance knob. Maybe I have a bum tweeter?
Anyway, thanks for looking!
Anyway...
Started off as usual on the milling machine and rotary table:
Cut all the driver holes for flush mount and added a little roundover to the back edge of the woofer cutouts so those little HiVis can breathe:
Hurricane Nuts with a little polyurethane glue to hold them in place:
For the ports, I cut the tubes .250" short and then cut some flat-bottomed holes into the rear panel, leaving .250 of MDF to get to the 6" required length:
Glued them in place with some polyurethane glue and then trimmed off the excess with a flush-trim bit on the router table. I owe someone here thanks for this idea... wish I could remember who, but this is a great way to do PVC ports. Super easy:
Added a couple dowels for bracing... Bit of a bird's nest of wires around the crossover at this particular moment...
I really didn't feel like painting this time around. I was going to wrap the boxes in Tolex (like a guitar amplifier,) but I remembered I had a bunch of this fake carbon fiber kicking around. Unlike actual carbon fiber, the stuff is really easy to work with and actually looks the business. Anyway, I had bought a bunch that I never ended up using and I wanted a dark color to make those woofers pop a little, so it seemed like a good opportunity to use it up. This was also infinitely less effort than painting. I just stuck it all down with 3M Super77 and then carefully trimmed the excess with a sharp razor:
The front, back and sides are all one piece with the inevitable seam on the back panel:
One last shot of the flush-mount and fake carbon weave:
There is one strange thing going on, though... I have a bit less high-end coming out of one of the speakers than the other. I double checked the crossovers and they're both correct. Not really sure what's going on. It's really slight, but I can definitely hear it if I A-B them with a balance knob. Maybe I have a bum tweeter?
Anyway, thanks for looking!
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