I ordered the Deltalite II 2510 kit from Leland, along with a pre-cut baffle and driver mounting ring, two pieces I thought it would be especially difficult to cut myself. Since this was my starting point, I thought I'd do the driver break-in up front. Here's a shot of my setup, iMac (running Audacity) -> GK MB200 -> driver, with a digital multimeter in there to watch the volts. This picture will also explain why there will be no workshop photos in this build thread, because this table may indeed be the neatest part of the house.
Bought my wood from Barron's lumber in Gaithersburg, MD, since it was convenient to a lunch break from work. I thought I'd be clever and get them to take the 4x8 panel down a bit by making the first three or so cuts on the cut schedule on their panel saw. Well, that got me some pieces that didn't quite match the plans. Easy to cure, however, just sat down with graph paper and made up a new cutsheet one square to the inch. The ugly piece of ply on the top of the stack was scrap Barron's gave me to practice on.
I actually own no woodworking tools to speak of, so I visited the local Harbor Freight and bought a collection of clamps, including their spiffy clamp-and-cut straightedges, a circular saw, and a finer-toothed blade. On Sunday last I actually set to cutting some wood, and got the top, bottom, and sides cut out. The work area (no photos) is the garage, with a couple nice, stable folding tables, and room for my ShopVac. Of course since I'm a wood n00b there are some matching issues and everything's about 1/8" short... I'm thinking that for now I will see what I can make up for with the PL, and if need be I have the other half of the 4x8 sheet to get more pieces from.
Next Sunday's weather looks good, hoping to make it to the first glue-up stages.
