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Speakerlab Seven restoration

Well, to update everyone Sir.Byrd ordered the JBL blue grill cloth for the grills. Hopefully he will have the grills finished by Saturday, and then we will start to decide on a type of veneer we will put on the cabs.

What do you all think is a good veneer to put on these speakers? Give me your ideas?

I was thinking maybe Oak, cherry, rosewood, or something else.
 
I'm kinda burned out on oak because I see it so much here in the midwest but if there are other oak pieces in the room, it could look cool. The other two sound good. A friend has some older Onkyo speakers in Brazilian rosewood that are beautiful....very warm looking. Mahogany is another one that I like a lot. My buddy's speaker wood looks a lot like this pic I found...this is rosewood. It's beautiful I think.

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Started to put some putty on them today to fill the grain before we stick the veneer on.
I am leaving the rest of the work for Laith now, I've been working too much on them ;).

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Okay, got 8/12 sides finished, 2/12 sanded.

I also plugged the L-pad holes with 3/4" plywood (the baffles are actually a little greater than 3/4" MDF) and put a 1/2" piece of plywood behind that, this should strengthen a weak part of the baffle.
 
Sir,
the way to do it is trim the tweeter hole in the center enough to get the magnet inside then take two tongue depressors and glue them above and below the tweeter.
That's the way SpeakerLab did it. you can cut the end's off the depressors so they are not so noticeable.
 
BwanaJim said:
Sir,
the way to do it is trim the tweeter hole in the center enough to get the magnet inside then take two tongue depressors and glue them above and below the tweeter.
That's the way SpeakerLab did it. you can cut the end's off the depressors so they are not so noticeable.
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Is it a big issue that they are rear mounted?

I don't like the thinness of the tongue depressors as I see that as a potential weak spot in the cabinet, so if I were to front mount it I would either disassemble and reassemble, or work out something with thicker plywood.
 
In my speakerlabs it looks as though the front mounteded T35s and the tongue depressors had been glued on (with silicon) and when dry enough to give a decent grip the area behind the tongue depressors had then been back-filled with silicon.

I think that if the tweeter horns aren't front mounted it may affect the horizontal dispersion pattern of the horn. The baffle cutout would act like an abrupt end to the horn flare.
 
ArtD said:
In my speakerlabs it looks as though the front mounteded T35s and the tongue depressors had been glued on (with silicon) and when dry enough to give a decent grip the area behind the tongue depressors had then been back-filled with silicon.

I think that if the tweeter horns aren't front mounted it may affect the horizontal dispersion pattern of the horn. The baffle cutout would act like an abrupt end to the horn flare.
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Hmm, I suppose I could also extend the cutout 1" and then remount and replace the 1" cutout with plywood...
 
Ebony is OUT of the picture, too expensive, looks nice though.
Zebrawood and rosewood are our two options now, a single 8x4 sheet will give us 11 sq feet of scrap but would be $100+. I am considering buying part of the sheet so it is less expensive for Laith and use the other veneer for another project, if he doesn't use it for something else himself.
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The owner of the speakers:
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Crossover, very sparse for a TOTL model, huh?
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Well we got most of the sanding done.

It was a good day, but not as good as when Will and his friend took all of the old veneer off in one day!

Oh, and that is me in the picture. Not a good picture but okay. :)
 
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