No - you're not doing it right. The panels are NOT centered on the drawing lines, they are set outside the throat/mouth drawing lines. I don't understand why this is such a difficult concept to understand. Look at the plans for a WO. All panels are set to the outside of the lines. THEREFORE panel thickness doesnt effect the mouth/throat area except for a VERY minor change on total line length. Look at the picture I took of the layout sheet. The left side lines are the lines made from laying out the WO. The lines on the right show the material position which is on the OUTSIDE of the layout lines. This shows quite clearly the only thing effected is the total line length. I doubt very seriously that 3/8" would make much difference. This is where I got the Plans - http://www.decware.com/Whornok.htm It also clearly shows the panels on the OUTSIDE of the layout lines. Now are we gonna continue on the "you made it wrong cause your wood is too thick rant"? The only thing the thinner panels would have helped would be the size of the closed chamber and the volume of the compression chamber - which I have stated more than once now.

VTEC JUST KICKED IN!

This is what killed ya.

Steve  [smiley=icqlite19.png]

Steve, after we put it together i opened that area up slightly. My calculator showed it should've been larger than it would've been had i not done so. Output level was as expected....frequency response however...hehehe. Gonna be fun making a real WO someday. In hindsight I shold have used thinner material on the Outside long panels. But as I stated several posts ago I don't own a planer and don't have any 3/8" material laying about. Still....3/8" wouldn't have made a helluvalot of difference in total line length, especially at the high frequencies these driver operate at - LOL. When I opened those small areas up the spot in question ended up being a hair over 1/2" wide - not the 1/4" on the layout board. this shortened the total line length another 1/4" - *gasp*. That adds up to a whopping 5/8" - OMG!!! LOL. ANYWAYS....this was just for chits and giggles and i still doubt seriously scaling a WO below an 8" woofer would be worth the effort.

I have a WO with two Tangband 6" subs which is approx 25.5 x 27 x 8.5.
While not as impressive as the 10 or 12" WO I've built,by every right still a good sub for a small system.

Brian

blotch, you do aim the opening from your wo's AWAY from you right?

Blotch wrote on 07/16/07 at 22:27:16:


might be your problem, all my wos work amazing when firing away from me, but sounded like poop fireing straight at me.