Why is it always done in heat? You'd think we'd be smart enough to plan construction in the spring, but it's just so pretty outside that we simply must wait until it is hot.
My wife hid my flush trim bit. But I am going to be my speakers done. You're thread has inspired me.
Actually it was too cold and humid to paint and varnish a couple of weeks ago but since you live in TX you just have to deal with it. Your wife hid your bit ?!? You probably needed a better one anyway.
My router experience is limited to Formica and drywall for the most part so I went peeking around HTS for a bit recommendation and found that I should get a double fluted up spiral 1/4" bit. Home Depot didn't carry the Freud but the Diablo they had worked great and it was in the same $20 range. Eddie has a cheap 5 piece set of flush cut bits from some crap mail order deal or Harbor Freight ... what garbage. I should have made those cuts with a dull rock and a broken beer bottle. Seriously the bits were new and the screw that holds the bearing on came out and the bearing came off and the router went into the wood on my first use of it. On my second use of it the bit gouged out a piece of wood on the Mahogany face covering the port mouth forcing me to go through the hassle of installing a Dutchman.
When I was done with the subs and loading them into the truck Eddie's good neighbor of The Spandex came over for a look see. He knew of my paint woe's and asked if I was happy with the final result. I pointed out some flaws and told him that everything I had done to them I could have done better. Still it was more important to me to keep the ball rolling and get them playing in Mantown than to be polishing them like they were the Hope Diamond. He asked if if I would have done anything different build and design wise. I mentioned that I was undecided about the way I attached the larger base to the enclosure. I could have kept it the same size and covered the joint with the Mahogany cladding but I was undecided on that as little steps like that add the complexity of detail in a subtle manner. To me flush flush conditions are sure fire fails ... but it would have been covered by the cladding.
Anyway, what I'm trying to do is encourage you to move forward.
Dribble for a while and then shoot! If you take enough shots from half court one will eventually go in. Somebody once said of pancakes that the first one never works out and is destined for the garbage like marriages. I think the same applies to speaker builds. I'm not quite ready to ditch these but I see what is possible now. Still, I'm sitting here typing this listening to
Sultans of Swing @ ~ 72 db. The bass line is incredibly sweet and it's coming out of these ridiculously large subs.
