Spent a little bit of time these last couple days over at the shop trying to get these done. Finally tonight we got one of them all put together, solidly glued, drivers mounted and into the house to test (while Mom and Dad were out to dinner). It didnt let us down. Here are a couple pictures:
Clamping down the front baffle overnight, I have managed to not use a single screw on this project yet, and only a handful of brad nails. The inner tubes worked really well to keep things tight as it dried.
So here is the best picture of the speaker so far, you can tell in the first picture that the front baffle is wider than the rest of the cabinet. I did that on purpose, after the glue dried (24 hours) I took all the clamps off and went around all the edges with a flush trim router bit and that made it look really nice. But who cares about looks? How does it sound?
They can go loud. The bass is impressive, and at some points scary. They can definitely pound pretty hard but they also sound quite good at a more moderate listening level while still providing a nice low end. We tested it with a few tracks from Daft Punks "Alive" album, but also played some mellower acoustic stuff, also a Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker jazz album of Nates. I think that they are definitely more suited to louder harder music, but do very well with other genres as well. I am very excited to get the other one done (it has been glued and is currently drying). Having them set up in stereo is going to be intense.
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