OmniTop 12 build

[Fastskiguy]

The journey starts! This isn't gonna be fast but hopefully we'll make it all the way

[Clef's of Bass]

layout looks good!

[Tom Smit]

Enjoy your journey!

I have the same earmuffs at work. I like them.

[Clef's of Bass]

Enjoy your journey!

I have the same earmuffs at work. I like them.

I use the 3M muffs. Has AM/FM and bluetooth. They get a lot of use during garage/ shop time and yard work.

[Fastskiguy]

I was hesitant to share this picture because it will make any flaw completely unacceptable given the equipment I was able to access....but what the heck, I'm a beginner. Main panels are cut!

[Seth]

[CarterKraft]

Very nice

[jimbo7]

Compression drivers or tweeters?

[Fastskiguy]

I'm gonna try for that cross firing tweeter array. I made two TLAH and two SLAs so wiring them up should be not terribly different. At least that's the current plan!

Joe

[Fastskiguy]

Is the jigsaw the thing to use cutting out the baffle? Mine tore the crap out of the plywood.....it was a mutiliation. I'm going to give it a bit of bondo or something but whoa! Maybe it's a blade issue? I just used whatever I found rattling around at the bottom of the case, not sure what it was made for (It looked sharp)

[Tom Smit]

A jig saw can be used. A fine-toothed blade will produce better results but will take longer to make the cut, as opposed to a coarse tooth blade. What a bunch of people do is cut about and 1/8" away from the cut line, and then use a powered router to bring the cut to the line by using a guide.

[Fastskiguy]

Spent some time making a couple of router jigs for circles. These worked pretty well.

[Fastskiguy]

A jig saw can be used. A fine-toothed blade will produce better results but will take longer to make the cut, as opposed to a coarse tooth blade. What a bunch of people do is cut about and 1/8" away from the cut line, and then use a powered router to bring the cut to the line by using a guide.

Ah now that is a good idea, thanks

[Fastskiguy]

Making faster progressed than planned and...for the most part...it's going well. But the baffle....oh boy, I'm looking forward to taking another crack at this someday on speaker #2. I have a question about the little lip that is shown in the arrows below...should I take a rasp or file or something and trim back the baffle until it is flush with the horn panels and throat reflectors or is that lip OK? Thanks guys

Joe

[Bill Fitzmaurice]

That lip is far too small to have any effect. Anything less than a quarter wavelength in dimension is invisible to sound waves. A quarter wavelength at 2kHz is 1.9 inches.