The following rather poor photos show the cabinets in progress (with the exception of maple which was being sanded and unavailable for photos today).
The walnut cabinets are the farthest along and are basically ready for final assembly. It was sprayed with a light coat of dark walnut dye to bring out the nice curl patterns. Here is a photo...
The cherry cabinet here is shown getting its final sealer coat. This could be dyed a darker cherry color prior to topcoat if desired. Again, some very nice figuring...
The mahogany cabinet just went through a sealer session and was sanded down. So we wiped alcohol on the side panel to better show the detail in the wood. You can notice the lack of alcohol on the front of the cabinet and also an area at the bottom where the alcohol already evaporated.
This, too, can be dyed prior to topcoat. As an example, I used photoshop to roughly simulate a traditional rose/red dye applied to the cabinet.
Since we were unable to shoot the maple cabinets, here is a photo of a similar pair of finished speakers. Although it is not all that evident in the photo, it has a nice curly figuring pattern.
As mentioned above, all of the above SongTowers are $1795 plus shipping.
Finally, here is the "special" pair of pal dao rosewood cabinets. These are set up to receive black aluminum front baffles and LCY pure ribbon tweeters. Notice the sapwood edges. We had a small batch of pal dao with sapwood edges and decided to use it as a feature. We originally did this for a customer and liked it so much, we thought we'd do it again. But since we only had a limited supply of this veneer, this is probably not something we could duplicate in the future. This is a "custom" pair ($1995) with $200 worth of veneer and $700 for the LCY tweeter upgrade and machined aluminum front baffle.
All of these speakers will be ready for final assembly by the end of next week and can be delivered in time for the holidays.
- Jim
