Getting close now! Assembly is next.
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Getting close now! Assembly is next.
All assembled and sounding great. Working on the grills.
The upper grills have 4 tabs that fit into holes, the bottom grills
will be held in with velcro.
I threw together a few extra pieces for a test system.
It's great to have these to listen to while making the grills!
I stretch the cloth as evenly as possible over the wood frames, and
then staple.
856 pound crate! It took quite a few hours just to pack
them up and build the crate.
I'm fortunate that I have a lot of nice tools to work with, it
makes the various jobs easier.
It's been over 3 years since I finished up the four oak La Scalas and sent them to my customer in San Diego. I got the rosewood La Scalas about half done back then, and for whatever reason, just never finished them.
I recently got a request from a gentleman in the U.K. interested in some Klipsch Heritage speakers. One thing led to another and he's going to be the proud owner of these beauties.
Here's some pictures of them after I got them out of storage and cleaned them up. Actually, in these pictures, the bubbles in the veneer have been repaired and they have been finished sanded.
As with almost every veneer job I did with raw wood veneer, I had bubbling issues. It seems that using the iron-on method with raw wood veneer is trickier than one might think. The problems are more than I want to ever deal with again, which is why I will not use raw wood veneer and the iron-on method in the future. I have had very good luck with the iron-on method using paper-backed veneer and Heatlock glue. I get my veneer from Oakwood Veneers and the Heatlock glue from Joe Woodworker.
I originally designed these to have slant wood feet, very much like the ones McIntosh used on some of their wood cabinets years ago.
These are made of mahogany, and I'll stain them to be darker than the rosewood.
Like liquid rosewood poured over the speakers!
The front mounted horns have been painted black, but I have considered many different colors, one of which is shown below.
Making the grills for the bass bins.
I used mahogany for the feet and applied tinted oil to color them as dark and
red as the rosewood will be.
Fitting the Lexan covers for the bass bins.
New woofers have been ordered from
Bob Crites and new Universal crossovers have been ordered
from ALK Engineering
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