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As Promised, some pics of the progress we are making, This is the 1st set of parts to be ready for assembly with a 2nd set not far behind and another 2 sets about half ready.
 We should be assembling the 1st cab in the next week or so, I'll try and take a couple of pics as we put it together. If the prep work has been done well the assembly should be fairly easy, I hope ;)
 
 

Nice roundover on the edges, same tool was used on all the edges of the 6 x 1850 cabs as well, always worth doing, the results are so rewarding.
 



 
 
 
 And a nice big stack of parts ready for cab no.2 etc...


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I spent a few hrs pottering today, this is the result of an evenings work, it's moving in the right direction :)
 
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Looking good, looking forward to seeing the finished system. Makes me want to get on and finish building ours!
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Originally posted by UpComingSound UpComingSound wrote:

will the B&C tbx100 work ok in these cabinets?


The tbx100 if it was to work in eny would probly be the 186 horn, it is the same cabinet but the chamber's a different size.


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any further along with this?
I do a sideline in ply wood wheels.
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are you building these any more? 
I do a sideline in ply wood wheels.
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Originally posted by despoiler despoiler wrote:

My friend and I made the template for the xtros yesterday, the 10mm scrap ply I used wasn't exactly ideal but a bit of glue worked into the edges on the corners and any weak spots to harden it seems to have sorted it out. We will be using it for making the cab sides on our next workday.
As for the amount of ply needed for the 1850's, I think it worked out to less than 6 or 7 sheets for 8 cabs, it's a while since I bought it and I cant remember for sure, with some creative cutting it may even be managed with 5-6 sheets. I bought marine ply as beech was not available locally.

Birch you mean?
I always cry when I see people building from anything else than the best birch!

Why?
1. It's just not good enough! Sound is bad with good drivers & bad ply.
2. Better use second hand crap drivers for a start to save money, the driver can be upgraded, ply can't.
3. Your time should not worth be worth using less than the best, think of how long time this takes to produce compared to a factory new speaker. So your speaker is worth more than Funktion one in time!
I don't know what your wages are, but think about it! Calculate, it's not worth saving on ply!
4. You're gonna kill me for this: I would use cnc companies, they can deliver pre cut flatpacks at a price that matches the price of ply in the market! Check your companies around, check Poland & east EU.
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I am rather interested in the comparison between the Void & PD drivers. Aren't these usually loaded with PD? perhaps You will give an opinion on the differences
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Originally posted by tv00 tv00 wrote:


Birch you mean?
I always cry when I see people building from anything else than the best birch!

Why?
1. It's just not good enough! Sound is bad with good drivers & bad ply.
2. Better use second hand crap drivers for a start to save money, the driver can be upgraded, ply can't.
3. Your time should not worth be worth using less than the best, think of how long time this takes to produce compared to a factory new speaker. So your speaker is worth more than Funktion one in time!
I don't know what your wages are, but think about it! Calculate, it's not worth saving on ply!
4. You're gonna kill me for this: I would use cnc companies, they can deliver pre cut flatpacks at a price that matches the price of ply in the market! Check your companies around, check Poland & east EU.



1) best birch is expensive, and i would like to see if in a blind test you could hear the difference between 7 ply, and finest 13lam providing they are braced well.
2)I wouldn’t use crap drivers in an 1850, would probably end up damaging them.
3)see 1
4)this is a DIY forum.
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Interresting suggestion with that blind test! I almost tried that actually!
I felt that I could definitely hear that fir cabs are more boomy comparing one to one.
But bracing will help as you suggest.

Actually I prefer chipboard above mdf above fir, fir is the worst shit sorry!
I know chipboard & mdf is heavy, but if you want something light with a comparable sound use birch!
Fir is very soft, yuck I really hate that shit, but there's certain types of stronger "in-between" types of ply that I don't know the name of in english.

The point is that it just makes me sad to see people use good skills to build fir cabs, I think everyone deserves better!

And NOTE THIS:
You're going to loose all the money saved when selling the cabs again, I NEVER buy fir cabs no matter how well they're built and a lot of people won't.
Some people don't even say that they sell cabs in fir or pretend that they don't know, because they know it will put the price down.

Just do quality DIY, two birchboxes with quality drivers is better that four in fir with budget drivers!-)


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Whats with the fir cabs?

i dont understand
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