Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em?

Heavy speakers....

So the weight is adding adding up fast, and then I decide to make them heavier...!!

So after a few days of pondering design, shapes and other life altering decisions 
MDF krept in to my conscience again. MDF is great stuff, easy to cut usually flat and easy to finish....but dusty lol.

So I decided to change the shape a little, I want to add a taper at each corner (as you can see in the image) the outline is the blue tape 
as a visual. I will add two layers of 3/4" MDF so the bevel/taper will be a little bit more aggressive than in the image.

I think by giving the cabinet a few more angles, the design will perhaps  be more modern and hip looking.

As I said, it's getting heavy........🇸🇪

Oops...
https://www.flickr.com/gp/147883144@N08/N26m6Y

Shapes, shapes...??

Another day and another thought.....

So as you can se I did some "Thinking" and the shape has changed
as fast and as many times as I've taken showers.
So today I decided that the faceted design is the bees knees. I got MDF in my shop, plenty of glue and drywall screws. The shape will be very "Jewely" chiseled and more shapely.

I do like the truncated pyramid look, but it's getting a little old, so changing the shape could be exciting.

As you can see I roughed  out the top with some square wood pegs just so I can have a visual, not necessary a final look but close enough. I will go with a new ribbon tweeter I found, check it out...
http://viawave.ru/

The woofer port is another "many shower" issue. I have played around with the idea of keeping the tube I would just compensate for the interior volume. Rectangular port, and finally a passive radiator (PR) on each side of the cabinet.....
I might take the leap going with a dual PR set up (2x12") well see
and I need to decide which direction I'm going before I start to cut my MDF tomorrow. The cool thing with the PR is that you can tune the port by changing the weight of the cone and spider.
The other positive is that I will have less height of the cabinet as I don't have to worry about the bottom port...

That's it for now......🇸🇪

https://www.flickr.com/gp/147883144@N08/N98Hn0

The right tool.....

so having a table saw that decides to never, ever let loose of the old blade sucks
but its my main cutting tool, not up to the level I use to have in my cabinet shop but the one I have.
Finally I said screw it, I'm going tho spend some cash $$$$ and get a great saw and ladies and gentlemen, I got more done today then I had in my last three.
MDF is a bitch to work with if you hate dust.
First layer of MDF is on the speaker, tomorrow the second layer will be all ready to go by early afternoon. The thing is like a neutron star, some serious weight, and thats without a Walsh driver, 2 passive 12" woofers and the tweeter assembly. I think we'll be closer to 200lbs. So I'm building a platform with wheels so I can rotate the assembly To cut the faceted 'areas on the cabinet.

For a good start of the day have an espresso or two....🇸🇪

MDF the love affair....

Way back in the early 80's I had a cabinet shop in Venice, I built anything under the sun
just so I could go racing. But years later I realized that it was a hard job to push sheets of 
MDF and hardwood ply through my Powermatic. The dust was part of me, and it sucked as much then as it does today. One day I got an offer from an Audio company and I Said see you later to the dust.
Anyway, as You can see things are getting glued up and clamped with my work out equipment....lol 
I thought I would have all the sides glued up by now, but I had some other duties around 
the house to take care of first. As I'm getting closer and closer to the point were I have to
lock in the design (and shape) I'm vasilating back and fourth how to do it and where to do it.

I did lock in the passive woofers for sure, and the facets cut in to the cabinets will look killer
me thinks. To do the facets I have to make some simple jigs, nothing complicated, but it has to be very precise or it's going to look like crap.
The images shows a sheet of MDF getting glued up, and a small test piece that I can use for
a test cut.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/147883144@N08/shares/16m61t

Until next time.....peace 🇸🇪