The ultimate DIY? A Stax SRM-T2!

[digger945]

Glad to hear that you got everything sorted out. Have you tried any older tubes that you may have aquired recently?

[spritzer]

Just in time for the new flagship...

[Craig Sawyers]

Glad to hear that you got everything sorted out. Have you tried any older tubes that you may have aquired recently?

Running new Winged C EL34's at the moment. Showing up the limitation of the CD player (Tube Technology CD64) at the moment, so will correct that first, and then try out the NOS Mullards.

I'm going to have to tear myself away from listening to the BH + O2's and get the T2 up and running now that I have repair parts. I bought 20 K216's on the basis that these seem to be the thing that goes phut in quantity if anything else goes wrong in the T2.

[nattonrice]

Excellent timing!

I just got a load of extra sand and some 4686's for the batteries.

Have you given them a whirl yet?

Where'd you get your o2's from?

[kevin gilmore]

anodizer running a bit late due to a big job, has promised me (yeah right)

the current batch of chassis by next wednesday, then i'll ship all 4 by the

end of next week.

[Craig Sawyers]

Where'd you get your o2's from?

Oxford Audio Consultants . Made the salesman's day - I walked in, payed him a lot of money and walked out. Five minute deal. The price in the UK is

[kevin gilmore]

This will be the last crappy pictures from work, i was just allowed to buy a nikon 3100 to replace a 7 year old piece of sony crap.

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/img_0119.jpg

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/img_0120.jpg

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/img_0121.jpg

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Then soon i replace the D3 with something newer and make that the in car camera.

Looks like i need a couple more lenses.

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[nattonrice]

Wow that came out really nice!

Probably smells really good to boot =)

[Kerry]

Sweet!

[wink]

I wonder if us aussies could get a hold of some mallee roots and do the same...??

[kevin gilmore]

The harder the wood, the better, and no cracks required.

My old wood pusher retired and closed his business...

I found a new wood pusher, will post link with good pictures

later today.

What i really want now is a piece of the absolutely solid black wood

that they make clarinets out of. Will look like an anodized aluminum knob,

but will be made of wood.

Next up: Iridium knob

Edited October 15, 2010 by kevin gilmore

[Nebby]

African Blackwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That would be a cool material for a knob.

[luvdunhill]

What i really want now is a piece of the absolutely solid black wood

that they make clarinets out of.

um, ebony?

anyways, I'd like tortoise shell. Do they come thick enough?

[Craig Sawyers]

African Blackwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That would be a cool material for a knob.

I've already offered to get a chunk for Kevin from the same wood supplier that I got the LV from. Just need to find some time to go visit them.

[jhellow]

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[Craig Sawyers]

I wonder if us aussies could get a hold of some mallee roots and do the same...??

The drawer pulls on the oak drawers I made are from brown mallee burr. I love the stuff so much I have a huge chunk set aside for future projects.

[luvdunhill]

no, Grenadilla is what clarinets (and oboes) are traditionally made from. they aren't really solid black, though, they are typically dyed.

African Blackwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That would be a cool material for a knob.

very interesting Reks. I had no idea!

[Voltron]

Deleting response to old message.

That is a high-quality first post, there, jgoodbye.

[Craig Sawyers]

no, Grenadilla is what clarinets (and oboes) are traditionally made from. they aren't really solid black, though, they are typically dyed.

Grenadilla is just an alternative name for Blackwood - Dalbergia melanoxylon. Other names for the same wood are Mozamique Ebony (though it is not an ebony, which are Diospyros species), Mpingo and Pau Preto.

And yes - for some bizarre reason they dye the black wood black. I play the clarinet, by the way, so I know from first hand experience the sort of black muck that comes off a brand new Selmer clarinet until you get it well played in.

[Voltron]

Reks actually responded to Marc's "um, ebony?" comment, and I am guessing that he knows grenadilla = blackwood.

Now preparing for clarinet geek fight!

[luvdunhill]

Reks actually responded to Marc's "um, ebony?" comment, and I am guessing that he knows grenadilla = blackwood.

Now preparing for clarinet geek fight!

indeed!

[Craig Sawyers]

Reks actually responded to Marc's "um, ebony?" comment, and I am guessing that he knows grenadilla = blackwood.

Now preparing for clarinet geek fight!

Ah - didn't look far enough back in the thread. Reeds at dawn....

[Voltron]

Who the hell is Mike?

[spritzer]

You know Mike, the clarinet guy...

[kevin gilmore]

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/woodknob4.jpg

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/woodknob5.jpg

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/woodknob6.jpg

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/woodknob7.jpg

and for some reason i decided to do something goofy today, i needed

bookends to hold recipies in the kitchen...

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/bookends.jpg

knob on its way to the UK in about 15 minutes.