RichardH

I have to say I'm not generally a fan of singlecuts, but that shape is looking really good.

...oh, and the only reason I got the purpleheart is I found a great deal on it on eBay - was as cheap as any other hardwood decking.

We're moving house on Friday, so I shan't be oiling my deck before then! Here is is back in the glory days, soon after initial oiling ...

Rob Gilmour arranged it. Yes, Mike was there and brought the Zoot along - IIRC it was a Boudicca.

The decking in our garden is purpleheart. Looked stunning when it first went down, but it has gone back to a silvered grey. When I give it the annual careful pressure wash you still get the purple come through a bit, but the decking oil can't hope to preserve it against the weather. Bloody heavy stuff - particularly when in 3m lengths....

No, there should be two - remember that cutlist is for 2 cabs. It was the order of the cuts - what I currently have labelled as Cut 11 needs to be done AFTER cuts 12-15, as you need to have removed the 417mm long parts before you can trim the remainder off to 387 to form the K and L braces. Altered on my master now anyway, so I don't forget.

I was only able to do these because of the work that others had done before - I have just been chopping things around and rejigging. Just spotted a slight glitch in the cutting sequence on the cutlist sheet, but will correct when the final crossover is added.

I like the slightly random look of the ones at the left of the board - you could start a new trend! Be great for confusing guitarists, too!

Yes, I saw them in Aldi on Sunday, so can confirm they are being stocked currently.

Spiffing!

We use RCF 310s as monitors and they are pretty darn good. So the 312 should certainly do the trick.

I saw that Andertons have some in the January Sale - the 1x15 and the 2x12 for £299 each. Bargain!

Yup, that looks spiffing.

I have a contact on an audio website who does produce hifi speaker flatpack kits, I could ask him. However, i suspect it won't be cheap. I suspect the best way to approach it would be to ask for a batch of kits to be made up. That means someone needs to stump up a load of ££££ up front. Without enquiring, I would suspect we would be talking a couple of hundred quid for the setup and cutting time etc. Then there's the material costs. Also remember that most CNC cutting means waste, so we'd need to be sure that you can still get two kits out of one panel, otherwise the costs go up... Half way house would be just having the panels supplied cut to size, though that would require people to cut the baffle and handle holes etc. If someone was so inclined, they could make router templates to create the the relevant cuts, but they would then need to get involved in producing the kits and shipping them out etc. Depends how far down the line people want these flatpacks to be. Unless you can just throw a sheet of ply onto a CNC machine, then it starts getting very time consuming and therefore expensive. I think the other thing to emphasise is that unless the flatpack is cut with rebates etc to help panel location, then anyone assembling them will still need a range of tools etc - it's still not going to be a half hour "lego" assembly job. Final thought for the morning (and no disrespect to those expressing an interest), I suspect that the actual number of people who put the money down for a kit will be fewer.... and therefore the costs get higher per kit. I am in the midst of moving house (hopefully!!) so can't get involved in flat packs at the moment. However, once moved, I would POTENTIALLY consider the half way house thing, where I get a load of sheets of ply cut as per the cutlist at Avon plywood and then route the baffle holes, top handle rebate and rear panel speakon holes, so that all the tricky stuff is done (though the whacky brace shapes might be another thing to consider).

Stupid me, of course - I have previously realised this distinction, but in the excitement of seeing the project moving forwards, I glanced over the specs a bit too quickly, just seeing the 1.4". Look forward to seeing the crossover details... I have some spare inductors, resistors and caps, but sod's law says they won't be the right ones...

...that horn you're using looks like the P-Audio PH-170 (it's the only one I can see on their site that is that shape, anyway) - but that is listed as a 1" throat diameter???

Looks like the compression driver can be had for around £60. Faital 12PR320 is around £130. A sheet of the poplar ply will set you back £75 or so I would guess (though that would make 2 cabs IIRC), then horn, crossover components, tuffcab and misc hardware another £60 odd. There will probably be shipping costs for getting the bits as well. So very roughly it would be around £330 plus whatever someone charged you to make one.

Really sharpens things up, doesn't it.

...except they seem to be around £145, not £13.....

I bought one of the KAM ParBar sets with 4 PAR56 lights all built onto a block with DMX etc - £99 inc remote, footswitch and stand (a second from Gear4Music). Great bit of kit, but the only issue I had with it is that the lights were quite a narrow angle, so they didn't really flood the stage. I found for small venues you need something you can have attached to your speaker stands or similar (so people don't trip over them) and that are more of a flood - those bars above look just the ticket.