Hey Mono:
They look very nice. The paint reminds me of what Apogee did on their Centeaur Minors.
How did you do the paint, with an airless sprayer? What is the paint you used? It looks to have a silver sparkle affect like the Apogees had, or that could just be from a flash.
It looks like the lower mid woof, and upper low woof, are too far to the left by 1/4", or so, in the middle picture.
What I did was center the top mid woof and lower mid woof and then used a drywall straight edge to line up the array.
I know the long journey you have gone through, you will be RICHLY rewarded for your efforts.
If you could also take some picts of your room that would be nice.
Rocket_Ronny
Thanks. Ya had me nervous about the uncentered drivers. I had to have a look for myself.
It must be the way the lighting is hitting it. I had one light source from a flourescent bulb kind of from one side and it does make it look that way in that photo now that you mention it. To center it I just used a ruler and marked off three center points (4 inches from one edge) down the front baffle drew a line and marked a dot at each driver center point starting from the top down along that center line. On those dots I made a small pilot hole for my drill bit. I used a jasper jig and everything turned out very well on the cuts. The only problem I had was with the tweeter. The plans call out for a 5.11 outer circle. The closest setting on the jasper jig is 5.125 which is slightly bigger. If I had to do it again I probably would have used the 5.0625 (5 and 1/16) slot and used a little gentle persuasion to get it in.
The one thing I am pretty good at is caulking since I worked for a painter once long ago. I'll get a satin black caulk to fill in the space and I'll have it look pretty good.
As far as the method goes I used a method Al from Raw showed on one of his threads. He said this was a good simple way to handle a finish for first timers so I tried it and I'm happy I did. Its just textured black Bed-liner for pickup trucks. 7.99 a can (Two cans). The other thing I'm pretty good at is spraying. I was an air-brush artist by trade. I own my own graphic design and printing business now. I could have used a compressor and a spray gun but I could only find the paint in cans. I just made sure I did light coats where one edge of the spray touches the next spray and worked my way down. What you don't want to do is spray randomly all over the place. You'll get flashing where it looks like it gets streaky. Hard to get rid of once you get those streaks.
This morning I decided to put in the footpads Danny supplies. As I was tapping in the last grommit I split the mdf just slightly
to keep it in tact I decided to put a small screw through the back/bottom edge (countersunk) to hold it together. I don't want to have problems later by just putting a little glue or whatever in the crack line. So I added a little woodfiller to fill the countersink and once it dries I'll have to sand and retouch it up with the bed-liner. At least it happened at the back.
