I glued the faces on and finished the rough sanding for the two cabinets. I'll need to repaint where the material that was removed from the sides/faces (~1/8" all around plus that portion of the box that extended beyond the faces). That's a lot of sanding and my hands and arms haven't been this tired since I was a teenager.


I also need to stain the cabinets. I am trying to decide if I should do the paint up, or stain first. Probably stain. Opinions?


We are currently having strong Santa Ana winds, and any painting will have to wait.


Meanwhile, I think that I will mount the speakers and see if there is anything to be gained by going with open baffles. (Could be an epiphany!) This might be the better way to go with the Heils.


I can either just use a capacitor to block the bass, or set my speakers as "small" and let the Yamaha roll them off below 200 Hz and run them full range. Could be interesting.