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Well I got everything home, had to re-arrange the whole room to have the sub in a good sounding unobtrusive location. My end goal was to have a sub/entertainment center. The sub is firing into my bay window area with about a 6" gap between the wall, getting a smooth response without cancellatio...

So far so good on the testing, clean, deep, punchy, effortless bass in the carport. I didn't break in the woofer before installing, so the initial impression had me a little uneasy, but things have improved drastically since. One or two more coats of oil before she goes to my house for a meet and gr...

Staining is almost complete

Got the mouth braces installed and stained, going with natural danish oil instead of dark for the braces. Only have to finish staining the mouth and front panel. Impressions coming soon!

All sanded and ready for stain

I also have a question about bracing the mouth, I really like the look of these curved braces I made, any reason this would not be a wise idea?

Getting a bit closer, had a bit of trouble getting the last panel on, pretty sure I had the same twisting issue another member had, but I managed to pull everything pretty close. I also should have paid better attention when installing some braces, I pushed panel 1 out of alignment a bit causing a b...

Thanks for the input and guidance guys, some progress has been made! I decided to use extra bracing on all the interior panels, things are shaping up nicely so far

Sound waves hate symmetry, so from that standpoint you're better off not having everything perfectly square and true. I've been going over the plans, and I seemed to have missed the memo of braces being no more than 8 inches apart, I placed the 1/7 and 1/8 braces 9-10 inches apart. Would I be best ...

Anyone have input? I should be moving forward on thursday, the error is located where closest clamp in the bottom of the last picture. Hopefully it isnt to much to worry about.

Well, im happy to report that progress has bren made, and things seem to going fairly smoothly. I made a bit of a mess installing the braces, and i have a bit of a concern about panel 4and 7, it seems as though i did not install one of them perfectly square, there is a little less than 1/4" dif...

Haven't had a whole lot to report, i re-cut the panel pictured above, and got panel 1 installed today. I used an interior jig with a few brads to hold it in place for easy removal. I also cut little sections off a plastic speed square to leave room for squeeze out.

Well, progress has been made, most of my cuts came out on the money, i had one rip measure 1/8th of an inch shy, so it got purposed for the interior panels. I also had an error at the end of the 18" panel, which is also about an 1/8th of an inch over a 8" run, so im going to give that pane...

Same stuff, new label. Im still in the process of cutting panels down, but i have a question, im building the thtlp front firing model. In the plans it shows panel 11 and panel 1 cut leaving an open triangle behind panel 12, would it be detrimental to leave panel 1 at 71.5" and cut panel 11 to...