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Step 19Explore finishing options and finish the cabinet
Before any of the actual components get installed, you've got to do all of the finishing work.
Most speaker cabinets are finished with a wood veneer that's got some kind of lacquer, varnish, or polyurethane product applied to it, but don't let that limit your imagination. These are you speakers and you can make them look however you like! It won't affect the sound quality really at all, as that's all in the cabinet construction, so go nuts and make them look beautiful!
Some creative ideas I've seen around the web are linked to below. Since the speakers I made were built as the prize for the Art of Sound contest, we went with something unique, bold and festive...in other words, bright orange and white upholstered vinyl with black edge piping for the towers, spray on pickup truck bed liner, 3" chrome plates spikes and waterjet cut steel flames for the subwoofer, and fur covered, eye patch toting, horned and toothed monster treatment for the bookshelf speakers.
Creative designs:
Tree Speakers
TIE Fighters
Rubiks Cube Subwoofer
Concrete Speakers}
The process of veneering requires an entire Instructable on it's own. The basic concept can be described as taking a very thin layer of a good looking hard wood, like maple, cherry, oak etc., and adhering it onto a less beautiful substance, in this case MDF or MEDEX.
For the basic concept check out Rockler's Veneering page.
For more info you can also read Veneering: A Foundation Course on Google Books.
Most speaker cabinets are finished with a wood veneer that's got some kind of lacquer, varnish, or polyurethane product applied to it, but don't let that limit your imagination. These are you speakers and you can make them look however you like! It won't affect the sound quality really at all, as that's all in the cabinet construction, so go nuts and make them look beautiful!
Some creative ideas I've seen around the web are linked to below. Since the speakers I made were built as the prize for the Art of Sound contest, we went with something unique, bold and festive...in other words, bright orange and white upholstered vinyl with black edge piping for the towers, spray on pickup truck bed liner, 3" chrome plates spikes and waterjet cut steel flames for the subwoofer, and fur covered, eye patch toting, horned and toothed monster treatment for the bookshelf speakers.
Creative designs:
Tree Speakers
TIE Fighters
Rubiks Cube Subwoofer
Concrete Speakers}
The process of veneering requires an entire Instructable on it's own. The basic concept can be described as taking a very thin layer of a good looking hard wood, like maple, cherry, oak etc., and adhering it onto a less beautiful substance, in this case MDF or MEDEX.
For the basic concept check out Rockler's Veneering page.
For more info you can also read Veneering: A Foundation Course on Google Books.
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Nov 27, 2009. 2:45 PMpigpenguin
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did you make your mockups in sketchup?
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Nov 30, 2009. 6:11 PM
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noahw (author)
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That's correct!
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Aug 24, 2009. 1:34 PMawsumdude
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Could you please post crossover, dimensions of box and drivers used for the monsters
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Jul 29, 2009. 4:41 PMasdterror
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I love your sewing machine!
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