Thank you Brian. I don't have router table, but I will at some point. Any recommendations for a quality but not uber expensive table ?? Space is a premium in my one car garage/shop.
The reasons for wanting to do a removable baffle are 1) just to do something I haven't done before, learning new skills & 2) make it easier to apply veneer to the box. I've only built 4 speakers so my experience is not vast. On the last set, I glued the baffles to the box, did the flush trim, round-over, then finished the baffles, carefully & painstakingly masked off the baffles, then applied veneer using the iron-on method
The baffles were masked on the assumption that some glue from the veneer process would leak out the edges onto the finished baffle. Can't say I actually observed that however. It must have happened to a certain extent though, because I ended up carefully removing, via razor blade, little bits of blue tape that stuck at the border of veneer & baffle.
Anyway, with a removable baffle, you could finish box & baffle separately, avoiding the tape process and getting a nicer product in the end.
Another approach, also new to me, would be wrapping the veneer around the sides & front. Just a different look, learning new things.
The reasons for wanting to do a removable baffle are 1) just to do something I haven't done before, learning new skills & 2) make it easier to apply veneer to the box. I've only built 4 speakers so my experience is not vast. On the last set, I glued the baffles to the box, did the flush trim, round-over, then finished the baffles, carefully & painstakingly masked off the baffles, then applied veneer using the iron-on method
The baffles were masked on the assumption that some glue from the veneer process would leak out the edges onto the finished baffle. Can't say I actually observed that however. It must have happened to a certain extent though, because I ended up carefully removing, via razor blade, little bits of blue tape that stuck at the border of veneer & baffle.
Anyway, with a removable baffle, you could finish box & baffle separately, avoiding the tape process and getting a nicer product in the end.
Another approach, also new to me, would be wrapping the veneer around the sides & front. Just a different look, learning new things.
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