I am thinking something like that too. Maybe include a cross between them or... I'll have a look at it later, I'm back at home for the day.
Bad Tinny.
Failed? Not a chance. He built some of the finest contraptions known to man with duct tape and a prayer and boosted 3M sales in Canada by threefold.
Just a thought to avoid rocking of the lf-enclosure:
Use some threaded rods through the bottom of the enclosure and into the stand.
To avoid flexing of the V's you could use small blocks of wood around the threaded rods inbetween the enclosure and the stand.
Put large rings & nut on both sides and tighten.
Use some threaded rods through the bottom of the enclosure and into the stand.
To avoid flexing of the V's you could use small blocks of wood around the threaded rods inbetween the enclosure and the stand.
Put large rings & nut on both sides and tighten.
I have to confess; Red Green helped me a little.
Ha! "Duct Tape, the handyman's secret weapon."
I am a card carrying member of the Possum Lodge, you know. Even got the great man's autograph on a duct tape possum I built.
Those are looking good, Cal. They do look large.
Gibson is made here in Nashville. Their use of endangered and rare woods has a lot of people pi**ed off, and the owner is a nut case.
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How about some of the texture paint (stone effect) in a spray can for the baffle, back and stand. These finishes can look very good.
You can try stain on the body, that plywood takes stain pretty well - better than BB ply in my opinion.
Hi kvholio,
The bottom of the v's have three screws up from the bottom in each strut and a whole lotta yellow glue. It's the strut itself that is flexing so would the threaded rod help? I am also concerned about fastening through the concrete block in the base.
OK good. I thought in the pictures they looked smaller.
Hi John,
That's funny.
I was hoping to do something different this time. If I make one more stone textured speaker, they're gonna start rolling their eyes and shaking their heads.
Sorry John, I thought you were having fun with me. Honestly, I have to do something different. Until I stopped doing any finish work at all, the previous 5 or 6 sets had that. It's like wearing the same Hallowe'en costume every year. I need some fresh ideas. Maybe I'll do one red, one green and one red and white striped for port, starboard and center of channel...
nah, time for a beer and a think session.
I like your new avatar.
nah, time for a beer and a think session.
I like your new avatar.
Too bad they don't make chrome paint for wood (reminds me of chevy emblem)
I was thinking of experimenting with vinyl wrap. I have some trendy car modding friends that have done thier whole car in it.
You don't have to wrap the whole speaker, just come up with a cool pattern for the front face, or wrap the barrels? The vinyl can have anything on it that can be printed... I think there was a guy on here that did some kind of snake skin that looked interesting...
Curious to see how you finish these.
(reminds me of chevy emblem)I was thinking of experimenting with vinyl wrap. I have some trendy car modding friends that have done thier whole car in it.
You don't have to wrap the whole speaker, just come up with a cool pattern for the front face, or wrap the barrels? The vinyl can have anything on it that can be printed... I think there was a guy on here that did some kind of snake skin that looked interesting...
Curious to see how you finish these.
haha they look cool! not my taste, but cool (i hate pine, wheres all the mahogany gone?)
I have to agree with the other poster who beat me but, ARENT these more like Cals Headphones? compared to the Woodstock factor in his other speakers, in both size and most suitable use.......
no offence meant at all, but musician as i am, id take a Gibson Flying V over these, Anytime.
or... maybe play a flying v, thru the flying Vee's...
I have to agree with the other poster who beat me but, ARENT these more like Cals Headphones? compared to the Woodstock factor in his other speakers, in both size and most suitable use.......
no offence meant at all, but musician as i am, id take a Gibson Flying V over these, Anytime.
or... maybe play a flying v, thru the flying Vee's...
Gibson is made here in Nashville. Their use of endangered and rare woods has a lot of people pi**ed off, and the owner is a nut case.
nice. didnt know it was nashville, though i knew it was blues/country country.
the rare woods part, doesnt fit though. For a good few years now gibson, as many guitar manufacturers, have to source wood from 'ethically managed' forests. the gibson 'smartwood' series Les Paul, was a bid to advertise the fact and dispel the bad image hangover they were suffering. that coupled with the fact that most solid body guitars are made from Ash, Alder, Maple, or Mahogany (all except mahogany arent even slightly endangered), any exotic woods are sourced 'appropriately'...it would seem. theres less wood in an acoustic guitar, but anything worth having uses far more exotic woods than an solid body...take it from someone who grew up living next door to a master luthier
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Nice project, Cal !
Don't see it as a design flaw necessarily - and listen closely when you stiffen.
I don't predict for certain but at least It *might* be you like the "kind of inverse swing" even better - there is good reason for either way...
Michael
Don't see it as a design flaw necessarily - and listen closely when you stiffen.
I don't predict for certain but at least It *might* be you like the "kind of inverse swing" even better - there is good reason for either way...
Michael
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As i've been improving the finish on my black phase plugs, i've wondered if i could make some with a mirrored finish... bought some raw material the other day, and on further consideration, wondered if i'd end up with something that looked more like chrome.
dave
I know they chrome plastic (models and cheap car parts). I have also seen a powdercoat called "black chrome" that was damn sweet. I just don't know how they "chrome" non metal objects. I suppose if you could get the surface of the wood smooth enough with primer, paint, eurethane or whatever, you could find some kind of chrome paint???
With the front of your speaker cabinet rings being flat, you could put a mirror on the front?
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Anodized style paint might be bad ***, too
A guy showed me some powdercoated stuff he was experimenting with, and the fake anodizing he was doing looked better and was more durable than the actual anodizing stuff he was doing.
You have a compressor... Get a cheap or used spray gun, and experiment. You got plenty of speaker cabinets to play with hahahahahaha
Spray gun will yield better results. But even a spray can bomb looks fine with lots of elbow grease.......
How about black, with some crazy clear coat? Like a pearlescent metallic deep forest green clear coat.
With the front of your speaker cabinet rings being flat, you could put a mirror on the front?
Chrome Paints :: Paint Products :: Kustom Rides
Chrome Paint
Anodized style paint might be bad ***, too
A guy showed me some powdercoated stuff he was experimenting with, and the fake anodizing he was doing looked better and was more durable than the actual anodizing stuff he was doing.
You have a compressor... Get a cheap or used spray gun, and experiment. You got plenty of speaker cabinets to play with hahahahahaha
Spray gun will yield better results. But even a spray can bomb looks fine with lots of elbow grease.......
How about black, with some crazy clear coat? Like a pearlescent metallic deep forest green clear coat.
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