Howdy all,
While (im)patiently waiting for my car to be built, I am finding anything I can do to keep me distracted. I had most of the parts for Paul Carmody's Core 2 Way speakers, so I am building a pair in curved cabinets to prep for re-doing my main channels (gotta keep myself REAL busy while I wait).
Finishing
I have some beautiful Hickory veneer I plan to finish these in. Will most likely keep it natural. Haven't landed on this quite yet. Open to ideas!
I've taken some pics of how I built the skeleton. Nothing ground breaking nor will I win any engineering awards, but better than my usual craftsmanship. I am improving about +1.5% each cabinet. Hehe.
After I made my template for the curve/shape of my cabinets, I cut out a ton of square braces/tops/bottoms. I trimmed some waste before heading to the router table (couldn't talk the fiance into a band saw for this project after ordering the car, so chop saw had to do).
Once I trimmed some waste, I brad nailed the template to my tops/braces/bottoms and headed to the router table for flush trimming.
For the braces, I traced 1in around the edge. Then drilled holes in the 4 corners and busted out the jig saw.
After the insides were cut out, I took them to the router table and applied round overs. Looking pretty good compared to my usual work
Because my rear baffle/rear board will need to fit flush with the curve of the sides, I needed to calculate what angle I needed to cut them at. I busted out this handy digital tool to calculate what angle I needed to cut. To find out what angle I needed to set my track saw at, I subtracted 90 from 105.3. So I set my saw at 15.3 degrees.
I was smarter than normal here - I cut one section 3/4 BB ply the height of my cabinets. I then cut dados that my tops/braces/bottom will fit into. I Then cut my front and rear baffles out of that. This made sure all of my dados were at the same height.
Cutting my rear baffle at 15.3 degrees.
I wanted a removed bottom, so I have a brace at the bottom that my access door will bolt into. Since my floor spikes will be in the bottom access door, I needed it think. Test fitting below. So far so good.
Test fitting after all the baffles cut. Looking good
Quick pro tip before assembly. Lay out your tops/braces/bottoms and mark "top" on the tops of each one so you can easily keep track of their order.
Gluing up the skeleton
Adding rear baffle
Gluing the the first layer of the first side on. Nothing ground breaking here. I just repeated this step 3 more times for each side on each cabinet. I skipped the pics
Current status as of today
I've wrapped the entire cabinet in the 1/8in HDF and cut out the driver holes. Almost ready for finishing
While (im)patiently waiting for my car to be built, I am finding anything I can do to keep me distracted. I had most of the parts for Paul Carmody's Core 2 Way speakers, so I am building a pair in curved cabinets to prep for re-doing my main channels (gotta keep myself REAL busy while I wait).
Finishing
I have some beautiful Hickory veneer I plan to finish these in. Will most likely keep it natural. Haven't landed on this quite yet. Open to ideas!
I've taken some pics of how I built the skeleton. Nothing ground breaking nor will I win any engineering awards, but better than my usual craftsmanship. I am improving about +1.5% each cabinet. Hehe.
After I made my template for the curve/shape of my cabinets, I cut out a ton of square braces/tops/bottoms. I trimmed some waste before heading to the router table (couldn't talk the fiance into a band saw for this project after ordering the car, so chop saw had to do).
Once I trimmed some waste, I brad nailed the template to my tops/braces/bottoms and headed to the router table for flush trimming.
For the braces, I traced 1in around the edge. Then drilled holes in the 4 corners and busted out the jig saw.
After the insides were cut out, I took them to the router table and applied round overs. Looking pretty good compared to my usual work
Because my rear baffle/rear board will need to fit flush with the curve of the sides, I needed to calculate what angle I needed to cut them at. I busted out this handy digital tool to calculate what angle I needed to cut. To find out what angle I needed to set my track saw at, I subtracted 90 from 105.3. So I set my saw at 15.3 degrees.
I was smarter than normal here - I cut one section 3/4 BB ply the height of my cabinets. I then cut dados that my tops/braces/bottom will fit into. I Then cut my front and rear baffles out of that. This made sure all of my dados were at the same height.
Cutting my rear baffle at 15.3 degrees.
I wanted a removed bottom, so I have a brace at the bottom that my access door will bolt into. Since my floor spikes will be in the bottom access door, I needed it think. Test fitting below. So far so good.
Test fitting after all the baffles cut. Looking good
Quick pro tip before assembly. Lay out your tops/braces/bottoms and mark "top" on the tops of each one so you can easily keep track of their order.
Gluing up the skeleton
Adding rear baffle
Gluing the the first layer of the first side on. Nothing ground breaking here. I just repeated this step 3 more times for each side on each cabinet. I skipped the pics
Current status as of today
I've wrapped the entire cabinet in the 1/8in HDF and cut out the driver holes. Almost ready for finishing
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