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An airhead is just a cab with space built in for an amp. Essentially just extend the sides up an extra few inches and stick a second top on it. For excessive amounts of flexibility you could make a tiny 2U case and latch it to the top when you need it, use it separately when you don't.

Yeah, it was more that I needed to work with what was in the shop at the time instead of running errands. I think I may have talked my dad into going splits on one, though. Would sure make life easier.

Get a Jasper Circle Cutting Jig. The 200 goes up to 18" diameter holes, and the 400 does 1" to 7 1/2" diameter very fast, very easy and very cleanly. Sweet, I'll look into one of those. This particular project was more of a "ok, I need round pieces of wood about this big done in...

Just trawling through old posts looking for tips and thought I'd share one. I use my dad's shop for all of my woodworking (dorm rooms aren't conducive to table saws :( ) and a while back he built a desk mount for the hand held belt sander. Love it! The control you get from using two hands moves the ...

Just an update for any Canadians who might read this in the future- don't order from MCM. I wasn't looking for shipping info yet when I ordered from them a week or so ago, and took the ~$10 shipping charge at face value. No dice. $38 COD + $10 shipping on a $35 driver bites. I'll be piggybacking the...

If you're stuck and are really desparate it is possible to use rope, but it's a pain and doesn't work nearly as well. Not reccomended unless you've got no other options, but it can be a lifesaver in a pinch. Just make sure you use blocks or else you'll have some lovely dents in your corners.

Yep that's definitely my preferred route, it's just good to know that I can hop on a bus to Waterloo and pick them up in person if I run into any more shipping headaches.

I've been thinking about this, and I've decided to bite the bullet, up my budget and go with 2 T18s and a pair of Omni 10.5s. This will let me buy drivers locally, as well as give me much more flexibility in terms of how much sound I can put out. It's more expensive, but I'd rather spend the money o...

First of all, thank you to everyone who posted- the level of support available on this forum is amazing. You've all got me a lot more optimistic about this working. So, it's looking like my best bet is to try and find replacement drivers from somewhere else, either loudspeakers.ca or an American sup...

That's the problem- the Madisound order is USPS, and it's the same kind of difference: it only costs about $10 to ship the same order to Detroit.

I'm in the process of starting an SLA/Tuba 18 build and am balking at shipping costs to Canada. The MCM 8" for the Tuba is already ordered (for $10 shipping), but the other sites I was expecting to get parts from (PE and Madisound) are charging very high rates to ship to Kitchener, Ontario. I u...

Thinking about it a bit more I'm leaning towards the SLA + tuba 18 combo after all. I can't get started until January anyway so I'll wait a bit longer before ordering plans to see if anyone else has any other suggestions, though. One question on the SLAs - a favourite trick in my dorm is to mount yo...

That's exactly my dilemma... I don't have any plans to do PA at the moment, and in that light an SLAH is clearly the best bet. But I just keep thinking about how great it would be to get back behind a sound board if the opportunity ever came up... some of the best times from high school involved sou...

First of all- hello all from Waterloo, Ontario. I've just been lurking a week or two, but I'm already hooked. Can't wait to move home and start building! Before I start that, though, I just need a bit of advice. I'm unfortunately not in the DJ or music playing businesses, but am looking for a sound ...