I HATE sound damping panels

[planet10]

Where does one find thinly cut strips of wood? Is this what "laminate" is? Is this affordable material? Is it as malleable as PVC?

And what kind of tools are required to do the kind of work shown on the Andy Graddon page?

Depends on which of the techniques you are referring too... a router, jigsaw or NC milling machine for translam... some creativity with jigs if you are going to make your own curved ply from veneers (is this the thinly cut pieces of wood you refer too?

some examples of use of veneer to build curved speaker walls

http://www.homestead.com/sparkgap/Hedlund.html

http://www.hornet.hr/Hornet.asp?sPage=Hedlund

http://www.hornet.hr/Hornet.asp?sPage=Hedlund

dave

 

[kneadle]

Wow, that's beautiful stuff!

Veneers. Yes, if you'll recall, my experience with enclosures is either wooden rectangles or PVC pipe.

I've been developing a few thingys that need to be bigger than they make PVC pipe for. Get it? And it ain't no box, see? So I had a problem till I stumbled across this newfangled "veneer" thing.

Affordable, I hope. Where can I find "veneer"? At a store?

Mmmm....jigs. PVC. Veneers. My cup runneth over.

Dave

PS...I was looking on page 2, the "pressed lamination" here

 

[andyjevans]

There's yet another way of doing it, as a friend of mine did. He made the front, top and bottom as formers then made the curved back from two pieces of aluminium sheet with expanded polystyrene foam in between. It is for a Jordan X92S