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Really pretty color! I think it will look more like furniture and less like theatrical equipment this way instead of flat black.

Used bondo to fill in the center of the braces, used a file to get it in the right shape (thanks to whoever mentioned that!) and sanded it down. Two applications of bondo would have made it perfect, but...it's going to be facing the wall. :) t39-last-side-mouth-paint.jpg t39-last-side-mouth-painted....

Don't worry too much about the braces. I spent way too much time making mine pretty, but you will never see the finished braces when the speaker is placed in the room as the opening will either be facing a wall or a corner. +1, I painted stuff on the front of my T39's that I only ever get to see wh...

Goodwill has old active subs with rotted out surrounds for cheap, so I'm curious to hear how well it works for you!

Second panel 11 installed, PL scraped.
Mouth braces scraped and sanded, given the first coat of paint. Eventually I realized that they'd stand up on their own, started getting less paint on my hands at that point.

Got two layers of paint in the mouth after putting tape down to keep the to-be-glued areas clean. It's annoying how far you can see up there if you look at JUST the right angle. :J One more coat and I'll call it good. The mouth braces are now assembled...and then I remember that I forgot to put hand...

Thank you! Progress is faster than I thought, I'm trying to remind myself to take my time. Went to an ACL taping for Nickel Creek last night and didn't get back until late, so I just used the router to round off the braces and the outer parts of the handholds with a 1/4" radius. Ready to glue t...

Got almost all of the remaining panels cut this weekend, leaving only the access covers. Plenty of good sized scrap left so those will be easy. Painted the 9 and 11 angle panels since those will be hard to reach later, two coats of primer with a light sand between. Installed the 9's, then reflected ...

Got the backs attached. While sliding one of the cabs around to get to the edge, the folding table I was using to work inside collapsed, dumping the one I'd just glued on the floor...erk. Amazingly some of the pins held...did have to re-glue it, but otherwise no harm done. Squeeze out is scraped in ...

Back to big panels! I cut two backs and got to work laying out all the stuff I wanted on them. 19" feels generous to me after a slim, but if you want corners and handholds AND a jack plate all behind panel 9 you run out of space fast. I started laying stuff out and then remembered that I'd alre...

Hmm, that's an excellent idea :) Definitely room on the backs for it, and that's all you can see when it's V-plated anyways! Panel 6 ext braces and panels 7 added. I got the panel 6-es flush with the front of the cabinet, but wasn't checking if it was parallel to the TOP, so...eheh, the panel 7 fart...

Didn't have much time last night but I got a lot of the fiddly bits installed around the access panel. Without a table saw, I couldn't think of a clever way to do the 3 degree angle on the little 2" long braces so I just cut them square and then sanded them. Not having anything coarser than 150...

Got the 3/5 braces in and then added panel 6. There was a 1/4 gap on one cabinet between where the end of panel 5 was and where it should have been where it meets up with 6....I didn't check it again after putting the screws in, so apparently they missed the holes drilled for them in the panel and p...

Friday night I cut panels 2-4. Lots of angles, but since I needed two of each I could flip the source board over and re-use cut edges, nice! Made sure to make the guide board with the slight angles on them. cut-panels-3-4-5.jpg I ordered some pre-cut driver spaces from speakerhardware, hoping to sav...

Went over the plans and model VERY carefully to get the handholds in panel 1 cut right, since apparently that's easy to mess up. I didn't cut handholds in my first pair of t39's and have regretted it ever since...I put a nice flip-out handle on the back of them about 30" up. Looks really sharp,...