Great stuff, congrats!
Now would you please trim out that damn door! It's bugging me.
Thanks. I know, the lack of trim looks so bad. It will be addressed soon...
I decided to stay in for the holidays, so I've been chipping away at some projects:
Building up a 115 cab for bass guitar, going to be a 4.5 cf slot ported cab with a single 15. Looks like it will probably weigh in around 100 lbs though, so I'm building an amp stand for it and leaving it at home. Not gonna be lugging it around lol.
It looks bad, I don't have any clamps that big, so it's just glued together like that.
However, it's getting reinforced, sealed and braced like crazy, so it will hopefully be bad ass when done.
It's 3/4" mdf, but the front and rear baffles are 1" baltic birch. Two layers of 1/2" bb glued together...
This is absolute shoe string budget stuff, only using what I had laying around, so I'm not too critical.
A new project: building a pair of 5" midrange monitor cubes, like oldschool Auratones.
I picked up a couple Dayton PA130-8 midranges which have very flat response and high power handling.
Much like the Auratones, they will be a sealed, single driver box for checking just the midrange in a mix.
I wanted to make them look as nice as possible, because they are a gift for someone.
Got some walnut veneer and veneered a piece of 1/2" baltic birch.
This is my first time ever messing with veneer, or actually making a speaker box from complete scratch. The veneer is paper backed and I used contact cement.
I decided for miter joints instead of simple butt joints.
From a raw finish, I sanded the veneer lightly with 320, it was already very smooth.
Couple coats of Watco Danish Oil.
Then many, many layers of oil based polyurethane for a gloss finish.
The veneer soaks up so much, I keep having to put more layers on to build it up. The goal is a smooth surface, no orange peel.
Wood filler before the poly would've been the way to go, but I don't have any.
This is after a couple coats of oil:
After the first two coats of polyurethane:
And after a few more (still a ways to go):
Yes, I made the rookie mistake of forgetting to line up the veneer in order. Doh!
For tiny desktop stands for these tiny 6.5" cubes, I'm using the off cuts from making the stands for the L40s. Hah!