Hi all, I just completed my first speaker build and thought it would be idea to share some pictures and thoughts about the process as there doesn't seem to be much coverage of this design.
I work as a sign maker so I'm fairly handy with building stuff, but have only really dabbled with basic woodwork almost always in MDF for a famous coffee shop chain. Crucially though, we have a 2m x 3m CNC router which definitely gave me a head start over most first time builders!
I wanted to start with something fairly simple, but a bit more exciting than a basic bass reflex which pointed towards the frugel horn or BK-12. A major consideration though was minimising angled cuts as I have no (easy) way of doing them with my equipment. This led me to Woden Design and their smallest Fostex design, the Sperrin for FE103EN, which can be made entirely with right angled cuts.
A few emails to Scott later and I had the nicely detailed PDF plans, which I drew up in ArtCAM ready to feed to the router.
As advised I used 18mm birch ply for most of the panels, but for the front and feet I used a piece of blocked beech worktop which and been sat in my garage for months (purely for aesthetics).
Since I had the router I decided to cut slots and rebates into the side panels to keep everything alighned and as square as possible, but not having many clamps had to glue only a few pieces at a time. More to follow, trying to keep post size sensible!
I work as a sign maker so I'm fairly handy with building stuff, but have only really dabbled with basic woodwork almost always in MDF for a famous coffee shop chain. Crucially though, we have a 2m x 3m CNC router which definitely gave me a head start over most first time builders!
I wanted to start with something fairly simple, but a bit more exciting than a basic bass reflex which pointed towards the frugel horn or BK-12. A major consideration though was minimising angled cuts as I have no (easy) way of doing them with my equipment. This led me to Woden Design and their smallest Fostex design, the Sperrin for FE103EN, which can be made entirely with right angled cuts.
A few emails to Scott later and I had the nicely detailed PDF plans, which I drew up in ArtCAM ready to feed to the router.
As advised I used 18mm birch ply for most of the panels, but for the front and feet I used a piece of blocked beech worktop which and been sat in my garage for months (purely for aesthetics).
Since I had the router I decided to cut slots and rebates into the side panels to keep everything alighned and as square as possible, but not having many clamps had to glue only a few pieces at a time. More to follow, trying to keep post size sensible!