- Welcome!
- The Walkthrough
1. Step ONE
2. Time to Buy!
3. Cutting MDF
4. Sand
5. Routing Circles
6. Rabbet
7. Round the Edges
8. Fun with the Vent
9. The Crossovers
10. Cabinet Assembly
11. Almost there!
12. Veneer and Finishing
13. Connect the Drivers
14. In Conclusion...
- Materials
- Schematics
- Cited / Useful Sites
- Q&A's
- Email me (Alan)
- The Oracle at PE!
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The Walkthrough - Time to Buy!
I think I can honestly tell you that this was the most time consuming part of the project for me. I spent countless hours driving amongst nearly a dozen hardware-related shops in both Maryland and New Jersey to bring together everything I needed. In addition to this, I had to wait three weeks for my backorder at Parts Express to ship. I'll tell ya right now that I found nearly everything between Lowe's and Parts Express. Using the list of materials I put together and my rambling thoughts here, you should be able to avoid much of the hassle that I went through.
Above (bottom): Here are the crossover components that arrived in my first Parts Express shipment. Is that my Gibson Les Paul? Why yes. yes it is! |
My bottom line was around $400 per pair from start to finish. This will vary (maybe even greatly) for you depending on which supplies and tools you need to purchase. Luckily, we only had to buy a few router bits. No matter how much I searched, I could not find a high-speed-steel version of the 1/2" rabbet bit... so I had to settle for a more expensive carbide one ($27). Honestly, the high-speed-steel does a very good job of ripping easily through the MDF - certainly worth the $7 to $12. Although, We found that with the steel if we tried to cut the entire depth in one pass we tended to cause some burning. The simple solution: take two passes -- cutting only halfway through the first time. In the end, don't be surprised if you've made more than a dozen trips to your local hardware retailer - or vastly more if you're me... which you're not.
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