Half Sachiko???

[Rick R]

I jumped at purchasing a pair of Sachiko speakers built by a guy who lives close enough in North San Diego County so he would deliver them. I set them up in my garage and they sound great. He made them for himself a few years ago and did a good job on the building, but the finish is absolutely horrible. He used 3/4” Baltic birch plywood, but it looks like he had his seven year old son apply the urethane finish. The fact that it is glossy just makes all the runs, drips and waves even more visible. My wife took one look at them and said, “Never attempt to bring those into my house!” I am planning on trying to strip the speakers and stain them a dark reddish brown, to match our Arts and Crafts furniture, in hope of getting her to give in on these giants. I do have an extra 45 amp I am using to run them in the garage, so I guess they could stay there for a very cool garage system, but I am afraid my wife will start using the top and bottom openings as shelves to store some of her boxes of yarn.

My second thought was to find out if there were some way to cut these down to something close to a “Half Sachiko”, or something like the Fostex plan for the FE 206e driver, the BK-20 or ????. Somewhere I remember reading that a Sachiko is similar to mirror image BK-20’s set head to head on top of each other. Is there any chance that something as simple as cutting the top off the Sachiko at the level of the top of the compression chamber and sealing the top would work? I know it would not have the whole sound of the properly designed Sachiko, but maybe it would not be too bad. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. Please don’t flame me for my obvious lack of knowledge of speaker design and BLH acoustics or my laziness at not wanting to start from scratch.

[planet10]

This topic has been covered. Half Sachiko would not work. In theory it might be possible to saw the box in half and put the 2 sides, side-by-side.

Small horn for FE206 = Dallas II

dave

[aardvarkash10]

Originally Posted by Rick R

...but it looks like he had his seven year old son apply the urethane finish. The fact that it is glossy just makes all the runs, drips and waves even more visible. My wife took one look at them and said, “Never attempt to bring those into my house!”

Rather than staining, take them to a paint refinishing shop and get them sprayed in a color of your wife's choosing...