Ceramic and glass enclosure.

[oon_the_kid]

Hi,

I've been building satelite speakers in flower pots using full rangers and have worked out quite well. I would drill a hole at the back of the pot using a ceramic drill bit. Then glue a piece of wood with the appropriate hole for speaker mounting with silicone glue to it . I understand there are quite a few other people who have done it. I am quite happy with mine. Would you like to post some of your tips and experience as well?

I would like to build my next one using a glass vase. I have so far identified a 2.5 litre glass vase from ikea with wall of 5mm thick. I would like to do something like this.

http://www.waterfallaudio.com/

The difficulty is the sound absorbent material. Obviously with a transparent speaker, you are going to be limited. From what I could see from that website. They build a mini enclosure, I suppose with lots of air holes to the main cabinet and filled it with acoustic damping material. That would absorb a fair bit or the mid range.

I have some blackhole 5, and may try to implement something like that. I might stick a piece of black hole 5 to the back of the speaker( at the magnet) with the sound absorbing surface facing the cone with an allowance of 1 cm from the side walls of the cabinet. Maybe another piece at the back of the speaker cabinet.

The other thing is, how diffcult is it to drill glass. I've seen glass drill bits before somewhere.

Any comments or thoughts on this?

Many thanks in advance.

Oon

[HK26147]

Use a carbide drill on a drill press.
It's not hard, I first drilled glass as a student in H.S.
Here is some tips:
http://www.drillglass.com/hehiforbe.html