Hello all!

[scuderiaF1]

New to the forum, just chiming in for the first time. Great forum btw! Amazed to see all the great projects ppl have been building.

I'm a graphic designer living just outside of Toronto with an avid interest in woodworking. I dable a little with electronics and home automation and am looking to set up a HT in my basement. Although I'm a total noob when it comes to the technical side of audio, I have toyed with the idea of building my own speakers. I know what looks good (I really like the Divas by Swan Speakers) and would welcome the challenge of building curved cabinets. It seems that everything I attemp to do is never simple (even my back deck is a two tiered round deck with a bent-wood curved bench ).

Don't know where to begin.

Thanks for now,

Loris.

[v-bro]

They are much like Bowers and Wilkins (B&W), I built a small version of the top model (Natilus). Only I made it a two-way transmissionline (open end...)

They are really amazingly good acoustic (or should I say non acoustic) shapes I've ever used as an enclosure.. They sounded really pure..
I do intend to build them up again and do some nice finishing on them...
Here's a picture of what's left of it:

[v-bro]

Oops that'd be 'Nautilus'

[peranders]

Welcome Loris!

[moamps]

On behalf of the mod crew, thank you for joining us Loris! We are glad to have you here and look forward to your contributions.

Regards,
Milan

[Cal Weldon]

Hi Loris and welcome to the forums.

[v-bro]

Originally posted by scuderiaF1
I'm looking to set up a HT in my basement.

Don't know where to begin.

Indeed welcome Loris,

You can start by having a listen at a speakerbuilding store nearby, most of them have the designs built up and ready in a room to listen to.

You can adapt many designs into a cabinet that suits the looks you like....I've tempered with the idea of curved wooden panels myself, I guess it omes down to bending thin sheets and glue them on top of eachother layer after layer....very not simple, but ultra cool to achieve!

Regards,
Vincent.

[scuderiaF1]

Originally posted by v-bro


You can start by having a listen at a speakerbuilding store nearby, most of them have the designs built up and ready in a room to listen to.

Does anyone know of these kind of stores in the Toronto area??

Originally posted by v-bro

You can adapt many designs into a cabinet that suits the looks you like....I've tempered with the idea of curved wooden panels myself, I guess it omes down to bending thin sheets and glue them on top of eachother layer after layer....very not simple, but ultra cool to achieve!

Regards,
Vincent.

I have also seen it done as layered "slices" of MDF.

http://www.audiodiycentral.com/at_translam.shtml

A pattern template would be a must in this kind of construction. Then again you could always build your own CNC machine!

http://www.lumenlab.com/forums/index.php?showforum=33

Thanks,

Loris.

[Cal Weldon]

If you are thinking of laminating, you can do it with plywood as well. Here's how I did it.

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showt...046#post879046

And this is what happened to the leftover cut outs.

Cal's fish story

[v-bro]

Very nice links fellas,

and nice artistic work Cal!

I designed the 'Nautilus' kind of design in 3d studio max and sliced the shape into several slices, printed the shapes on A4 papers that I taped to the wood (12mm MDF). The rest was some 150 meters on the electric saw...(sweat dripping business)...

A DIY CNC-machine would make a lot of dreams come true...

Sorry I don't know any of these shops near Toronto, here I can choose between about 10 shops within a 200 kilometer range....