That looks a fab lathe. What is the swing? I scanned through but did not see that.
36 rings of 24mm birch ply glued nay, laminated together is how I made my little mid bass horns.
Router wastes too much material imo so I jigsawed them out.
As David Mcbean made me aware, Hornresp will even output the angle you need for each cut so less finishing is needed.#
Mine are tiddlers compared to what you are planning.
I rely on tapped horns for 100Hz and below. That way I can get away with fairly small mid bass horns.
Have you thought Hyperbolic or Exponential. Needs much less material and mouth termination at low frequencies is not an issue.
I would have thought a Le Cleach profile bass horn was out of the question? A 50Hz Le Cleach is something like 10ft across I seem to remember
Fun and games. I am looking forward to the progress pics etc.
36 rings of 24mm birch ply glued nay, laminated together is how I made my little mid bass horns.
Router wastes too much material imo so I jigsawed them out.
As David Mcbean made me aware, Hornresp will even output the angle you need for each cut so less finishing is needed.#
Mine are tiddlers compared to what you are planning.
I rely on tapped horns for 100Hz and below. That way I can get away with fairly small mid bass horns.
Have you thought Hyperbolic or Exponential. Needs much less material and mouth termination at low frequencies is not an issue.
I would have thought a Le Cleach profile bass horn was out of the question? A 50Hz Le Cleach is something like 10ft across I seem to remember
Fun and games. I am looking forward to the progress pics etc.
Djn, I wish we were neighbors. Very nice machine. Turning is great fun kind of an all or nothing thing...it's good and then the chisel or gauge gets a mind of it's own and the part is ruined. Have fun and be carefully. Unless you have some experience you will probably find scraping the wood away a lot more controllable than cutting the wood away.
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I was thinking 1200hz for starters. Just to get the hang of it.
That is what I was thinking too.
I agree. But it is good for a lubricant which knocking the rust off.
I've got a good set of bowl gouges and know how to use them. I am looking forward to turning something big like the pic below but will start small.
The original design was from the turn of the century and my 1959 was one of the last ones to roll off the line.
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That is 5 and a bit octaves.
Way outside the recommended 3octave limit.
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Then I would have to deal with fiber glass......ick!
I've got a log just waiting to go up on the lathe, but I will use the tail stock as long as I can.
I like to use the big Heil for everything over 10khz.
not necessarily.All roads will lead to 5 ways in the end
A 3way horn system with 3octaves per horn results in 9octaves, or about 40Hz to 20kHz.
a 4way system with the top three all of ~2.7octaves horns and a non-horn low bass speaker can get to over 10octaves and cover the 20Hz to 20kHz bandwidth and yet stay well within the 3octave horn limitation,
If one had enough space then, a 4way horn system can get to around 11octaves.
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