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Originally Posted by AntonMG
Man.. I never thought about crafting my own loudspeakers.... but now... I'm hooked!
Please do show the result!
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If you do a build and order from parts-express, my advice is this:
Keep all purchases under 200$ or else you get slapped with insane duties
Their Parts-Express forum has tons and tons and tons of known-working build projects for you to do. Anything by Bagbsy (his handywork is behind some high-quality commercial speakers) or Carmody is solid gold.
Want to know what else is addictive?
Laminate choices for this beast!
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I want to use one of those curled veneers, rub in some dark red grain-filler compounds on the curled darker spots and go over it with a mahogany (almost bight red) impregnated poly. I believe I can get pretty close to my Gibson's wine red finish-effect doing this for the fronts.
For the backs, sides and tops, use grain filler on the whole panel, apply dark red stain then go over it with non-tinted poly
Will have to test lots and see but I'm hoping that I can pull it off to match my guitar. I figured it would be a nice touch since it is in fact a pair of speakers designed for rock