The ultimate DIY? A Stax SRM-T2!

[Voltron]

Awesome knob is awesome.

Sincerely, Mike

[kevin gilmore]

have a look here and drool... (go thru each wood on the left, one at a time)

Woods by Specie: Amazon Exotic Hardwoods

I'm going to buy at least 10 different pieces.

Edited October 15, 2010 by kevin gilmore

[digger945]

have a look here and drool... (go thru each wood on the left, one at a time)

Woods by Specie: Amazon Exotic Hardwoods

I'm going to buy at least 10 different pieces.

Beautiful stuff there. Their prices seem to be very close on the Lignum Vitea I priced on ebay. Found out while searching that LV was once used for bowling balls.

[Kerry]

They have a really nice selection. I had a local lumber yard that was nice because you could look and feel the wood. Also, they could plane the wood for me to any thickness - great for speakers.

[Craig Sawyers]

are Selmers becoming popular? when i was in conservatory it was Buffet, Buffet, Buffet. i always liked the Selmer Signature, when i auditioned them a couple times.

Dunno. I've had my Selmer Prologue for around 20 years now. Cost

[Craig Sawyers]

have a look here and drool... (go thru each wood on the left, one at a time)

Woods by Specie: Amazon Exotic Hardwoods

I'm going to buy at least 10 different pieces.

Looks like you've found a local supply at reasonable prices. You'll know if you've got the real mckoy with LV from the perfume. Ones that you have absolutely got to have in your basket are:

Burmese Paudauk

Cocobolo

Macassar Ebony

Honduran Rosewood

Kingwood

Olive

Purpleheart

Zebrawood

Ziricote

I keep a small stock of turnery blanks (which is what this supplier provides) for small parts - contrasting through wedged tenons, knobs, decorative inserts, bow tie inserts etc.

The thing to absolutely watch about these things is that most are not as stable as LV - many are prone to splitting if you take them straight into a dry heated or air conditioned house. You have to slowly acclimatise them to the humidity in which they will finally be used - reckon on a year or more per inch of thickness.

[Craig Sawyers]

Beautiful stuff there. Their prices seem to be very close on the Lignum Vitea I priced on ebay. Found out while searching that LV was once used for bowling balls.

The other main applications were in golf, where a "wood" used to have an LV head, and ship's propellor bearings. Because of its self-lubricating properties and complete imperviousness to continual immersion in salt water it was used extensively in the days of steam. Better wear properties than brass bearings.

It was also use in woodwork for mallet heads because of its density.

Of course, that meant that the relatively small global stock of this very slow growing wood is nearly depleted, meaning it is not easy to get hold of in decent sizes.

[wink]

Griffin Exotic Wood--the high quality exotic wood source!

Anyone bought anything from this mob?

[wink]

Desert Ironwood from Griffin Exotic Wood

Density 0f 1.2

Genuine Lignum Vitae (guiacum officinale from Griffin Exotic Wood

The real stuff, not Argentinian.

Both are from the link above..

[luvdunhill]

Kevin, have you ever considered the LT1007/LT1037 in lieu of the OP27?

[kevin gilmore]

Just about any opamp will work. With the capacitor fix, even an lm741 will work.

Next 4 chassis are done and i'll have them tomorrow morning, and ship probably

2 of them tomorrow afternoon. Then the other 2 on thursday.

[Fing]

Just received the chassis safely and it looks great! Very sturdy and thick, and the heat-sinks are huge!

Really impressive work - thanks Kevin!

[luvdunhill]

Kevin, how deep are the knobs you've been making? I'm wondering if 3cm thick piece of material would make a decent knob, and not sure what proportions look right when I mock it up on the screen. I'd say something around 1" diameter and 1" deep is what looks decent, but just wanted to get another data point.

[kevin gilmore]

Production knobs are 1.5 inches in diameter, and 1.25 inches deep with a shaft that

is 1 inch long. Single machined piece.

[kevin gilmore]

Someone dropped out so i have one extra chassis/board set available. Can probably ship end of next week.

$1472 plus shipping.

[blubliss]

I'll take it.

[kevin gilmore]

blubliss gets it...

[spritzer]

Go Andy, go!!!

[blubliss]

oh shit, what have i done

[spritzer]

One of us!! One of us!!!

[cetoole]

oh shit, what have i done

You have protected my wallet from a shitstorm. Good man.

[Nebby]

You have protected my wallet from a shitstorm. Good man.

You too? Thanks for taking one for the team blubliss!

[kevin gilmore]

Do to a complete miscommunication on my part, there will be one more chassis/board set available.

Sorry al for my mistake. Scaring a high power lawyer, probably not a good thing to do

At the rate andy is going, he will probably have his finished in about 2 weeks if he can find

the rest of the parts.

[blubliss]

Wow, part sourcing is pretty interesting

Could I get some help with a few things. Read the whole thread but could not find an answer.

I need a replacement for the 8 fast diodes STTH1512D

And I can't find these:

100/3W 71-CPF3100R00FKE14 CPF3100R00FKE14

100K/3W 71-CPF3100K00FHE14 CPF3100K00FHE14

100uf/50v 647-ups1h101mpd ups1h101mpd

8 pin socket ??

I found the FKE14 at Newark but the shipping is not nice and wanted to see if i could combine.

Thanks for any help.

And Colin/Nebby, watch the wallets

[Nebby]

And Colin/Nebby, watch the wallets

You're telling me, I thought I was safe until I saw Kevin's latest post.

Must.....Resist....