Ohh, that chilly, chilli beer. Yeh, it's still chilly here, well relatively speaking of course. Fired up the new PC tonight, what a ripper, so just letting you know how things are going.

fantastic! One of the Imperials is more or less completed, painted in and out. Awaiting only the fitting of speaker connector, lifting handles (still not sure what to do with this one), and a plaque that will read 'Decware modified Jensen Imperial, by Jake and Gary 2005.'

The second speaker panels have been painted internally and are now ready for screwing and gluing together and finishing externally.

Pics you say....soon. They will be presented in all their glory on my website. Jake will hopefully pop down again before Xmas and we'll put in another few days labour and sorted.

Cheers,

Gazman, Chilli Beer drinker and Imperial builder.

What a difference a Jake makes  :).

My man made it down here last week, and even though he was feeling a little unwell, he put in a big days work, and now we have the second cabinet finished, all bar the filling and painting, which I can do now, at my leisure.

We fired them up of course, in tandem with my arrays, in 3 way active mode. Played only a few songs with the wick turned up, didn't want to hassel the neighbours. Generally just played around with a few tunes. Annoyingly, the music started to cut out a high volume levels, leading me to think my Playmaster amp was clipping, or worse - failing  ??? Then I realised, the CD player (we are using my son's Playstation 1 as a source, don't want to drag my Yamaha outside), was skipping from the vibration. Lesson: Dont use PS 1 for a source, place your CD player on a layer of foam or toweling.

So here they are for the moment, try this link. I will give a full write up on completion. Note the three back braces. The speaker chamber front panel will be enhanced with a nice cut of laminate surrounding the drivers, stained and varnished.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~toffees2/Imperial1.jpg

If the link fails, try my www.

Cheers,

Gary

Howdy Guy,
yeah, the weather is nice here, it's like this all year round. Sorry to rub it in. This summer has been our coolest by far, other parts of Oz have been sweltering. Even a bit of rain hasn't gone astray.
The dimensions are as per Imperial, minus a couple of mm to allow for the fact that we used 18mm chip, i.e. the horn dimensions are pretty much to plan, had to use some 22mm chip on the rear of the speaker chamber to bring the horn shape back into spec.
Jake is such a top lad, shame he and my daughter are no longer an item, but that is life, we progress and I'm sure that Jake will. He has good music plans, and now, he will have the speakers to deliver all his ideas in Kodachrome sound. They will probably be shipped up to his pad in Perth around the end of the month, though I'm sure that if they need a baby sitter, if he goes travelling, they will have a nice spot back at my house.
On the subject of 'house', I'm thinking I might grab the 'Housewrecker' plans off Steve, probably go for the 2 x 15" cabinet. The drivers in Jake's Imperials, though some might say are a little underpowered (120 or so watts rms), should be ideal for a loungeroom, and from what I have read, I could probably design the box to shape up as a nice bit of furniture.
These plans by the way are going to go on hold until at least 2007. A trip to Europe (I was born in England), World Cup soccer, and an attempt to manufacture, cast, plastic telescope mirrors is my next venture. Its worth a shot, isn't it.
Wish me success.
Oh, by the way, Jake bought me a plunger Router for Christmas, what a tool it will be, can't wait to fire it up on the new project.

Cheers,

Gary.