With the weather conditions finally replicating the ones in CA the time is right to finally replicate the Wavecor Ardents up here in north
I do love the Fusion 360 and it's CAD -> CAM -> CNC machine workflow. I started things off with the front panel milling jobs. My machine can't take the full lenght of the front panel, but it does enough to do tw + mid + 2 woofer and a bit more. I do have to shorten the center brace a bit or extend the slot with manual router.
The final front panel and speaker recess tuning is a breeze as one has such a good control of the CAM - CNC and by making a test piece I could fine tune the driver holes.
I'm building 4 front panels (and two boxes). Reasoning is that usually the 3rd attempt and later are the one's that come out good. So by making 4 the hope is that at least 2 succeed. If all come out ok then I'm sure there might be some interested parties somewhere in Europe to offload those two. This project is quite popular after all ...
Glue up is in progress and front panel cutting to dimensions and the bevel cuts will be attempted. My hand saw on a track falls a bit short of being able to cut the 70mm depth, so even the 90deg edges need cutting from both sides. Table saw would be able to cut through, but I'm more afraid of getting them through that as the DeWalt top plate is not big enough to support this type of job too good.
I do love the Fusion 360 and it's CAD -> CAM -> CNC machine workflow. I started things off with the front panel milling jobs. My machine can't take the full lenght of the front panel, but it does enough to do tw + mid + 2 woofer and a bit more. I do have to shorten the center brace a bit or extend the slot with manual router.
The final front panel and speaker recess tuning is a breeze as one has such a good control of the CAM - CNC and by making a test piece I could fine tune the driver holes.
I'm building 4 front panels (and two boxes). Reasoning is that usually the 3rd attempt and later are the one's that come out good. So by making 4 the hope is that at least 2 succeed. If all come out ok then I'm sure there might be some interested parties somewhere in Europe to offload those two. This project is quite popular after all ...
Glue up is in progress and front panel cutting to dimensions and the bevel cuts will be attempted. My hand saw on a track falls a bit short of being able to cut the 70mm depth, so even the 90deg edges need cutting from both sides. Table saw would be able to cut through, but I'm more afraid of getting them through that as the DeWalt top plate is not big enough to support this type of job too good.
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