Good morning all! In my opinion this is a good way to start off the week - plan speakers on a Monday morning!
I am planning to build a set of floorstanding speakers (soon) using the following drivers:
Tweeter: (1x) Seas excel T25CF001 (butchered from my maple speakers)
Midrange: (1x) Seas excel W15CY001
Bass: (2x) Morel MW 142
From the list of drivers, you will notice that I am going for small diameter drivers - reason being that I would like to keep the cabinets narrow (and not too large in any other dimension either). This generally means that folded horns tuned to 23Hz is out of the question.
I have this inner desire to push my abilities regarding woodworking, so I was wondering if anybody has any ideas to share on cabinet shape and style. It has to be something that will look good as well - there's no point in building the 9th wonder of the world out of mahogany but nobody can be in the room with it because it is simply too damn unsightly
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I have ordered a sheet of 16mm Marine Plywood (don't seem to be able to find any baltic birch ply in this country) which I will be using for the construction. The marine ply will most probably be covered in something like American Walnut for all the outside faces.
About three weeks ago I took delivery of my new Jet Thicknesser Planer ;D which in conjunction with my bandsaw is going to enable me to resaw and thickness any wood stock down to about 2mm thickness. This means I can cover the enclosures in just about anything I can get my hands on.
My idea has been to make two seperate cabinets - one for the two bass units, the other for the mid and tweeter. The one would sit on top of the other in a way that is uniform - meaning that the shape, width, and depth of the two cabs should be the same - only the height would be different. I would like to incorporate some curves into the design to make it interesting. Obviously these cabs would be braced propperly! For the finish I am leaning towards American Walnut. Perhaps with some Maple inlay banding?
Thanks for reading up to here. Please let me know what ideas you have - it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ian.
I am planning to build a set of floorstanding speakers (soon) using the following drivers:
Tweeter: (1x) Seas excel T25CF001 (butchered from my maple speakers)
Midrange: (1x) Seas excel W15CY001
Bass: (2x) Morel MW 142
From the list of drivers, you will notice that I am going for small diameter drivers - reason being that I would like to keep the cabinets narrow (and not too large in any other dimension either). This generally means that folded horns tuned to 23Hz is out of the question.
I have this inner desire to push my abilities regarding woodworking, so I was wondering if anybody has any ideas to share on cabinet shape and style. It has to be something that will look good as well - there's no point in building the 9th wonder of the world out of mahogany but nobody can be in the room with it because it is simply too damn unsightly
.I have ordered a sheet of 16mm Marine Plywood (don't seem to be able to find any baltic birch ply in this country) which I will be using for the construction. The marine ply will most probably be covered in something like American Walnut for all the outside faces.
About three weeks ago I took delivery of my new Jet Thicknesser Planer ;D which in conjunction with my bandsaw is going to enable me to resaw and thickness any wood stock down to about 2mm thickness. This means I can cover the enclosures in just about anything I can get my hands on.
My idea has been to make two seperate cabinets - one for the two bass units, the other for the mid and tweeter. The one would sit on top of the other in a way that is uniform - meaning that the shape, width, and depth of the two cabs should be the same - only the height would be different. I would like to incorporate some curves into the design to make it interesting. Obviously these cabs would be braced propperly! For the finish I am leaning towards American Walnut. Perhaps with some Maple inlay banding?
Thanks for reading up to here. Please let me know what ideas you have - it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ian.
