Australian Jack Stack

[NeilD321]

Wired up and tested both arrays. Nearly there now

While I was at it I put the undercoat on the XF12.

[bassmonster]

Looking good!

[NeilD321]

Thanks bassmonster.

The XF12 is done. Sounds great, weighs bugger all.

[NeilD321]

Back working on the Jacks recently so I thought I'd post the technique I used to cut the hole for the Jack plate.

Firstly, this is my Jack plate.

[NeilD321]

For no other reason than I felt it would give the speaker cable ends a little more protection, I decided to mount to jack plates on the inside of the back panel. This means I need a accurately cut hole or it will just look terrible.

I started by marking out where I wanted the hole and how big it was and then did a rough cut out with a jigsaw.

[NeilD321]

I then placed a template/collate guide (sometimes called a "bushing") on my router and 4 straight edge template guides on the back panel and routed the hole.

The only trick here is to place the straight edge templates the same distance from the marked lines as the router bit is from the outside of the collate. In my case it is 6mm.

Note: because the collate wont fit into the corners of the template guides you end up with lovely curved corners.

[NeilD321]

I finished off the hole with a round over bit but haven't taken any photos of that yet.

It is also exactly how I routed the holes for the handles. It just took a little longer to make the curved template.

[NeilD321]

Here's a quick picture of the "fins" I added to the back of the melded array supports to keep the lines clean and prying fingers out as I'm not using a front grill.

[jswingchun]

Here's a quick picture of the "fins" I added to the back of the melded array supports to keep the lines clean and prying fingers out as I'm not using a front grill.

I'm looking forward to seeing how that looks when finished.

[NeilD321]

I keep seeing mention of using T-Nuts for driver attachment but the plans do not mention them. Are guys using them on the Jacks "because they can"?

[LelandCrooks]

Depends on the driver. The heavy ceramics tee nuts are best. Neo's, use screws.

[NeilD321]

Fair enough. screws will be fine then. Thanks Leland.

Here are some more pics

Trial fitting the melded array

A pair of nude Jacks on their stands

With some clothes on....

Showing the "Fins"

[NeilD321]

and proving I live in Aus. This guy was nosing around my house yesterday....

[Bill Fitzmaurice]

and proving I live in Aus. This guy was nosing around my house yesterday....

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Mighty big squirrel that.

[NeilD321]

and it'll rip ya bloody arms off if you frighten it.

We just leave them to wander about and try not to hit them with our cars.