I don't know enough to design my own speakers, but I enjoy woodworking, and speakers are one of my favorite projects, so I've been trolling around for a new project lately and settled on Troels' Ekta 2 kit. (As an aside, I personally think the DIY speaker community is doing more interesting and innovative woodworking than the general hobbyist woodworking crowd) The package got stuck in customs for a few days, but Jantzen helped me rescue it and it arrived safely last week. The packaging was artfully done--after taking a quick inventory, I couldn't fit everything back in the same box. While I finish up another project, I'm thinking about how I'd like to finish the cabinets. I despise painting, so I'll probably veneer, but I'm not sure yet.
Troels Ekta 2 build
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I don't know enough to design my own speakers, but I enjoy woodworking, and speakers are one of my favorite projects, so I've been trolling around for a new project lately and settled on Troels' Ekta 2 kit. (As an aside, I personally think the DIY speaker community is doing more interesting and innovative woodworking than the general hobbyist woodworking crowd) The package got stuck in customs for a few days, but Jantzen helped me rescue it and it arrived safely last week. The packaging was artfully done--after taking a quick inventory, I couldn't fit everything back in the same box. While I finish up another project, I'm thinking about how I'd like to finish the cabinets. I despise painting, so I'll probably veneer, but I'm not sure yet.
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Nice progress and great tools. I envy the Hammer table saw. I just wish I could be able to fit something like it into my workshop some day. Current one would be way too small for it. I do have one Hammer - the A3 planer/thicknesses. Great machines!- Bottom
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I don't know enough to design my own speakers, but I enjoy woodworking, and speakers are one of my favorite projects, so I've been trolling around for a new project lately and settled on Troels' Ekta 2 kit. (As an aside, I personally think the DIY speaker community is doing more interesting and innovative woodworking than the general hobbyist woodworking crowd) The package got stuck in customs for a few days, but Jantzen helped me rescue it and it arrived safely last week. The packaging was artfully done--after taking a quick inventory, I couldn't fit everything back in the same box. While I finish up another project, I'm thinking about how I'd like to finish the cabinets. I despise painting, so I'll probably veneer, but I'm not sure yet.
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One must concede this is a very nice box of parts... the sort of celebration one might give to the local holiday "Christmas" comes to mind...DFAL
Dark Force Acoustic Labs
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I concur, and am similarly envious of Steve Manning's SawStop cabinet saw...
At least, I discovered their new enlarged and improved SawStop job site saw, and have been very pleased with that as an intermediate step...DFAL
Dark Force Acoustic Labs
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Marius Hornberger (YouTube) uses a short-stroke slider in a very compact shop...
It's a pleasure to use, and it's safer, faster, and more accurate than my old JET contractor saw, but aside from (clean) long bevels, there wasn't much that the JET couldn't do.- Bottom
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Very much drool on the saw. :T- Bottom
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I had the parts on a shelf in a closet for "safe keeping", but somehow the bitumen pads fell off and some of them shattered (?!?). Does anybody have a suggested replacement? I'm not trying to pinch pennies on this project, but they're pretty heavy, so ordering from Jantzen would be inefficient, although not out of the question. They're 50cm x 25cm and about 4mm thick.- Bottom
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Browncoat, I have heard several excellent speakers that use GR Research's NoRez for enclosure damping.
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PE carries a few good options as well, if the heat gun doesn't work. https://www.parts-express.com/brand/sonic-barrier/494
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This seems to be coming together nicely at this point- assembled cabinets can't be very far off...the AudioWorx
Natalie P
M8ta
Modula Neo DCC
Modula MT XE
Modula Xtreme
Isiris
Wavecor Ardent
SMJ
Minerva Monitor
Calliope
Ardent D
In Development...
Isiris Mk II updates- in final test stage!
Obi-Wan
Saint-Saëns Symphonique/AKA SMJ-40
Modula PWB
Calliope CC Supreme
Natalie P Ultra
Natalie P Supreme
Janus BP1 Sub
Resistance is not futile, it is Volts divided by Amperes...
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I found a little time to do some veneer work this weekend.
There are a million ways to joint edges, but for long rip edges my favorite way is to sandwich a stack of veneer between hardboard and use a tracksaw. BTW, I like to joint large pieces rather than smaller lengths, especially when I want to wrap veneer around a form and match the grain.
I stretch blue tape on the backside to hold the veneers together. That little hand saw is my favorite way to make crosscut joints (otherwise, I just use a utility knife).
I use standard veneer tape on the show side and remove the blue tape from the back when it dries.
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Thanks! Yeah, I think edge-to-edge veneer on a closed box can make it look a little formless, so I'm going to try edging the sides as if they were edge-banded panels.- Bottom
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I've done edging like that on a cabinet before myself. It always makes such a difference to the overall appearance being able to add a roundover to the edges of a cabinet. Something that you cannot easily do if it's veneer edge to edge. It is such a pain adding in the wooden edges though. A solid wood front baffle is another option, or a small sub baffle just to house the drivers.
I took the sub baffle approach here...
http://www.5een.co.uk/DayQ.htm
Completely out of necessity for covering up old driver cut outs in the old cabinets. But the small solid wood panels, just to house the drivers, makes such an improvement on the way the speakers look.What you screamin' for, every five minutes there's a bomb or something. I'm leavin' Bzzzzzzz!
5th Element, otherwise known as Matt.
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