"Aww shucks" he says while looking down and shuffling his feet.

Thanks guys!

I am liking this look of fronts and backs being the same heights, the top and bottom being inside instead of capping the top and bottom and the sides being in between.

I've done the whole 45 degree corner thing before, but I like how the end grain looks when it is really sanded out.

My co-worker wanted something to show off the wood. so that's what he got from me.

I have maybe another project in me for the rest of the year, but nothing planned, yet.

That is a nice looking speaker!

Gilf,

I'm not even in the same time zone as you are as far as speaker building!

You have major skills!

Well today I bought some mahogany and some maple lumber.
I wonder how dark wood and light wood would compliment each other?

There are some Tang Band W5-2143 drivers hooked up to an amplifier playing in my shop just to put some break-in miles on them.

Hmmm, sounds like a hell of a place to start a speaker project.
Film at 11:00, 10:00 central.

There is a chance that they could end up with some red on them, or not.

I am at a crossroad today.

My mahogany and maple speakers are coming along at a pretty good clip.

They are all cut out, glued up, and sanded.

Today I started putting the finish on them, so far so good.

I just can't come to a decision on what color to finish the MDF parts of them.

Both sides, the back and the bottom are all MDF.

Several ideas that come to mind are satin white, gloss white, satin black, and of course bright red.

So my question to you all is what do you think goes with the wood colors as they are shown here?






Side view:



And yes, the blue tape comes off!!

Looking awesome, Donnie!
Black is always a good backdrop to accentuate national wood.

Should I state the obvious? Red.

I don't have any design experience. My DIY experience in limited to putting together a GR Research speaker kit. I'm probably going down the rabbit hole of putting something together.  I'm interested in a full range driver and possibly pairing it with a tweeter without a crossover or only using a FRD. I might also experiment with using multiple FRDs to improve speed. Should be fun.

Not to take this thread off topic but congrats on your retirement, Donnie! I am so looking forward to mine. It will be the next major event in my life but still some distance away.

Tex, while I encourage you to accept Donnie’s sage assistance, I would not hesitate to pick up a pair of full range drivers and start experimenting. Just stick them in a piece of plywood. You will likely be happy and the more you tweak it the better and better they will get. Welcome to your new addiction. Lol.

Donnie, will do & congrats on the retirement. I'll send a PM with some basic info.

Well, I more or less finished up these mahogany and maple speakers.

The plan for these is to now build some sort of stand for them.
They will probably end up in my bedroom so my wife can get mad at me for having yet more speakers strewn about "her" house.

Interestingly, today is our 32nd anniversary and the first day of my retirement! I like things to be on the same day as to not forget them.

Anyway, here are views of the speakers in my dirty garage.









When I started playing them in my garage, well, I wasn't too impressed.
5" woofers in a 24X24 empty room with a garage door hanging open isn't a recipe for being sterilized by too much bass!

But moving them inside to my listening room made things much better.
The bass improved immensely and the imaging is what makes single drivers famous.
I'm sure that a couple hundred more hours on them will really help them out.

By the way, I have recently jumped back on the tube bandwagon again and am driving these with my Torii.
It feels like Old Home Week.