New cabinet progress

[Biff]

Time has become available lately for playing catch up - started a year or so back and now sawdust is being made for a change! They will have a pair of 225s front and back, Davis 16s, and LCY 108s. Drivers will be back mounted to the mahogany baffles - right now they are an extremely tight friction fit in their cutouts. Should the cutouts be eased a bit and silicone caulked for damping? Front and rear panels will receive bracing similar to sides, XOs will external. Cosmetically I am leaning towards a curly maple veneer for the boxes. I will trim the legs after I get some measurements to align t/m.

Any suggestions for the final stages is appreciated!


These are the Rockler 3" roundovers


Baffle detail


Overall height will be about 39"


Fronts and backs will get same bracing


Still undecided about fastening baffles from inside or using antique brass connecting bolts set flush from the front.

Mids are in a tunnel T/L which will brace front to back and the 225s will be braced mag to mag also. Right now I can jump on these from any angle and they don't budge, but with all those slopes I slide off like a Japanese game show.

[BOBinGA]

Beautiful boxes !!
Care to share the design details?

-Bob

[Biff]

I'm going to try to keep a good log from here on out and in a week or two should have these done except veneer and I'll be happy to share with anyone nutty enough to consider something similar then

Suffice to say that with all these compound angles there was a great deal of folding paper to split angles and becoming a good deal less follicularly endowed.

[dlneubec]

Cool looking project, Biff! :T I hope to hear them someday. I'm thinking you want some removable panel so that you can get to the driver mounted from the rear, just in case, but perhaps the front baffle can be mounted from the back and the rear one kept removable from the outside.

The curly maple veneer sounds great to me.

Have you measured the drivers rear mounted?

[TacoD]

Very nice roundovers. Did you made this with a "normal" plunge router?

[Biff]

Good call Dan

Cool looking project, Biff! :T I hope to hear them someday. I'm thinking you want some removable panel so that you can get to the driver mounted from the rear, just in case, but perhaps the front baffle can be mounted from the back and the rear one kept removable from the outside.

The curly maple veneer sounds great to me.

Have you measured the drivers rear mounted?

With the mid tunnel it would be about impossible to access any other way than from the front, so the idea of using some attractive connecting bolts mounted flush with the front and making that the removable panel is looking easiest - cosmetically I would prefer the back to be removable just to keep that mahogany right. But sealing the mid tunnel against the removable back has me concerned. The bottom panel will be removable so a couple of days ago it occured to me that if the top were removable I could access screws mounted inside top from there, and using draw downs at the corners and mid sides from the inside would give me the best of all setups - I could cover the top screws with mushroom buttons fairly unobtrusively I think. And, no, no measurements have been done so far. Why, are you volunteering? Actually, reading the results of your tests gave me the impetus to go ahead with this - those Davis drivers have a serious following but are SOOOO ugly I had to cover them and your projects made it seem doable.

Taco - the roundovers are from Rockler.com - the bear was figuring the compound angles and cutting, matching, etc., but in the end I think it's worth it. All the other cuts were made on a $39.95 table saw and a non-plunge base router.

[JonMarsh]

I'm going to try to keep a good log from here on out and in a week or two should have these done except veneer and I'll be happy to share with anyone nutty enough to consider something similar then

Suffice to say that with all these compound angles there was a great deal of folding paper to split angles and becoming a good deal less follicularly endowed.

Yeah, I can imagine they might be a hair pulling exercise at some point- but the nice results you've got so far speak for themselves! :T

[Dean100]

Taco - the roundovers are from Rockler.com - the bear was figuring the compound angles and cutting, matching, etc., but in the end I think it's worth it. All the other cuts were made on a $39.95 table saw and a non-plunge base router.

Looking very nice! :T Just amazing what some of you guys can do with just a few inexpensive tools.

[ThomasW]

Should the cutouts be eased a bit

Yes

and silicone caulked for damping?

No, that's a waste of time and money

[Biff]

Oops

Cool looking project, Biff! :T I hope to hear them someday. I'm thinking you want some removable panel so that you can get to the driver mounted from the rear, just in case, but perhaps the front baffle can be mounted from the back and the rear one kept removable from the outside.

The curly maple veneer sounds great to me.

Have you measured the drivers rear mounted?

Didn't notice you meant the back woof - it will be mounted on the surface and with the bottom being removable it will be easy to get at = the brace between the woofs will be removable also.

[Biff]

YesNo, that's a waste of time and money

Thomas - value your opinion - why not have the drivers snug on the sides with the rear baffle? Essentially it would be like a rebate on the basket - just curious? Thanks.