My 4351 Build

[quindecima]

Have your wife take a pic with you standing beside them so we can get a perspective. They look nice.

[quindecima]

Here is how I solved the vhf mounting problem. I could have made a metal bracket and secured it too the top of the cabs but I did not like that, if left a great deal of weight at the rear of the driver unsupported so I made a small fir bracket and glued it to the support of the bottom of the dog house. I have some 1x3's to install on the sides and the rear and that will be the end of that. I can't install the ones on the back until I get the network and see how wide they need to be.

[Vahe Sahakian]

Have your wife take a pic with you standing beside them so we can get a perspective. They look nice.

My wife is of the opinion that I am too ugly to be featured on the Internet, so here are the dimensions;

36” wide (left to right)
55” high (top to bottom)
Top of speaker is at 64” measured from the floor in that picture.

Vahe

[Chas]

Vahe, is that a quarter inch TRS jack next to the UHF? Very cool looking system. I wouldn't call it ugly!

on second thought, I guess it's an LPad.

[quindecima]

I got my custom foilcals from the guys in Italy and sourced some thin Aluminum for them, it can be cut with a paper cutter. If anybody needs some I have extra.

[tjm001]

I got my custom foilcals from the guys in Italy and sourced some thin Aluminum for them, it can be cut with a paper cutter. If anybody needs some I have extra.

I was thinking of doing same with my L300 labels I got from him, but I can't come up with a way to cut the perfect 5/8 inch diameter holes perfectly spaced 2 and 1/4 inches apart. Years ago I used to use a chassis punch die to put holes in thicker aluminum, but I'm stumped on doing it with scissor thin sheets. Any ideas? Thanks.
Tom

[quindecima]

I used a drill press W/1/2in drill very slowly and put them in a vice and used a small 1/2 round file to clean the holes up.

[tjm001]

I used a drill press W/1/2in drill very slowly and put them in a vice and used a small 1/2 round file to clean the holes up.

Thanks. Are the finished diameters of the holes in your labels also 5/8 inch and are you doing this with the labels already attached to the aluminum sheet?
Tom

[quindecima]

Yes 5/8. I did the first one not attached and the second one attached. No difference is labor.

[quindecima]

Yes 5/8. I did the first one not attached and the second one attached. No difference is labor. The problem with those foilcals is getting them on with nothing underneath, even fly poop will show.

[JeffW]

I have some hole cutters called Rotabroach, they are similar to hole saws but no tooth set and a lot wider cutting tooth. Anyway, they make clean holes in thin metal - but you need a whole set up to make 'em go.

[quindecima]

Painted, two coats of primer, two coats of JBL blue. I was going to install walnut strips on the inside edge of the cabs but I hardly ever have the grill off so I decided to save some effort and painted them.

[NWCgrad]

They look fantastic with the JBL blue baffles.

[quindecima]

A thousand thanks, now on to the veneer I'm thinking about using titebond instead of contact, any input on that?

[ARMED]

are you going to leave the front nose squared? or is it angled?