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Good idea! Will probably have to use a rabbet bit to cut the countersink larger, but it should be workable! Thanks for the idea!

Had a massive failure on my part today, when routing the countersink for the tweeter I cut it as 4 1/4" instead of 4 1/8" so there's now a gap of 1/8" between the tweeter flange and baffle. Unfortunately I don't have the time right now to redo the baffle so I'll press on and finish it as is. It's a good thing I decided to go with a removable baffle

Haha....let him think it's curly maple Thank you all for the compliments, I'm rather flattered!

Installed port and jacks on the mini's and finished clear coating the SR-71's. The result:

I'll definitely be making sure that the area around it is masked off with masking tape before starting. The SR-71's are finished in terms of paint, all that's left is the routing and painting of the baffles, along with the mounting of the parts on the back.

I have to admit there's a striking similarity between my veneer and that headphone stand

Here's a sheet; I have no clue as to what it is, but you're right, I think it's beautiful too

Finished painting the ZBM4's: That's with no flash and finish fully dry. I decided it would make more sense to do the cutouts prior to sanding and finishing, so I routed out the hole for the port and it's countersink: I also cut out the hole for the speakon connector, but the forstner bit was abused badly by other previous users, so my countersink ended up rougly 1/16ths of an inch too wide due to wobble from the bit. I think I'll be using some black sealant to fill in the gap along with sealing off the the speakon connector.

I normally shop on ebay, if you aren't looking for the extremely exotic and can live with working around a couple defects you can get veneer for a bargain. The bubinga was much easier to work with than the curly maple. The only issue I had with the bubinga was my own fault (not spraying enough softener before ironing the back panel of one of the speakers)

SR-71 veneering complete: Sanding and finishing tomorrow

Oops, meant to post that last post on Head-fi. Guess it'll do as a consolidated update post

Long-overdue-update: After a break in build waiting for parts plus busy with other stuff, the SR-71 speakers are mostly done box-wise. The enclosures are glued and screwed together, the baffle mount corners are installed, Sonicbarrier foam is cut to size and installed, and brace dowels are installed. The baffle is still bare so I'll need to trim it to size (it's a touch larger than the box), run a roundover on it, route out the speaker cutouts then paint it black. Also, I have decided to go with external crossovers housed in a MDF case. That being said while waiting for the glue to dry I worked on veneering my bargain mini's: Wet lacquer and flash make for some very eye-popping curl Here they are after four coats and fully dried: Yes, it's not a great picture, but you can somewhat see how the curl is quite 3D even without flash. Next up...veneering the SR-71's!

Built in and "turn-off-able"

The two brace dowels for the SR-71 are now installed, along with the sonic barrier. It's now officially veneering time No picture since the inside is boring...but here's a pic of the lacquer satin finish on the bargain mini's: Yes, it's not a great picture, but you can somewhat see how the curl is quite 3D even without flash.

After four coats of lacquer it's starting to look rather nice! I didn't do any test pieces with this veneer so I was praying that it would turn out well. So far I have no reason to think otherwise, thank goodness! *phew*

Short update: After a break in build waiting for parts, the SR-71 speakers are mostly done box-wise. The enclosures are glued and screwed together and the baffle mount corners are installed, and the Sonicbarrier foam is cut to size. I just have to cut out the holes for the port and Speakon connector from the foam for the rear panel. The baffle is still bare so I'll need to trim it to size (it's a touch larger than the box), run a roundover on it, route out the speaker cutouts then paint it black. Also, I have decided to go with external crossovers housed in a MDF case. That being said while waiting for the glue to dry I worked on veneering my bargain mini's:

Adobe contribute is great; the most difficult part of the process was teaching the users how to use it. I just finished organizing stuff for the movers who will be coming to pick up the stuff later today.

Installed Windows 7 RTM on my main desktop. It certainly feels snappier than Vista, but this is just a fresh install so I'll see how it goes in time though I have no reason to believe otherwise from my experience with Win7 Beta on my laptop.

Speaking of the slide video: It's a good, fake, viral video. Entertaining at the very least.

Veneered my mini-bookshelf speakers

Mine was a core dump.

Did some outprocessing stuff, then worked on on both sets of my bookshelf speakers.

Picked up a few of the cases, hopefully they arrive within a week so I can use them for my packout!

Went to the 20th Nango Summer Jazz Festival. The music and food were quite good

Yea, you'd need another power supply board. Probably can do ok with just the + rail from the LCBPS, but the buffalo does draw a decent amount of current relative to the low current nature of the PS . Also, I'll need to take a look at what I have, but I think I might have a spare LCDPS you can have for the cost of shipping.