Updated Jan. 8 -  2007

Latest pictures of the final stages will be showing up over the next week but here are some pictures of the first enclosure to reach finishing stages.
picture 1 no flash Natural finish No flash. Picture with flash
Same with flash. .
in Sunburst red At left: In Sunburst red (No Flash) With Flash Sunburst red Same speaker, with Flash
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Tweeter panelTweeter Panel at left...  Tweeter panel  
And in place at picture above right.


 November 1st 2007.  We saw the first cutting of the production maple components.
 
speaker build 2speaker build1
    Just look at those stacks of high precision slabs just waiting for their turn in the NC mill. The 1.75 inch slabs are constructed of edge laminated furniture grade clear hard rock maple, fully cured and stabilized, then edge bonded, and final-milled to precise thickness and flatness. In the views above you will see the fabulously accurate NC multi-head mill at work, cutting the first pieces. Jennifer, in the red sweater, protects her hearing as Milling proceeds... you can see her below testing the fit of one of the Thiele and Partner ceramic drivers, albeit one that has not yet undergone the 5 to 6 hour modification process that the finished speaker system will use, and as some of you have heard in the prototype test cabinets.speaker build 4.subpanel tweeter fit test  Ribbon tweeter fit test.

No garage hack, sloppy tablesaw-handrouter buildup for this production speaker project....We are making full use of this multi-million dollar facility to ensure accuracy,  repeatability, finish consistency  and ultimate quality control...
  
speaker build 3speaker build 5.

Glue-up started November 26 - 07

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panels and tweeter driver fit test.Tweeter subplate test fit.
.more lamination components.Internal Lamination process.
.exposed laminiation view of inside of speaker.view behind a driver port.
.shy-builder.side-oblong.
.chambers.channels.
.back of driver panel.side-front.
.compresion bonding.

We are picking up the speaker cabinets with our project Wagoneer ( a useful restoration project of a 1978 Cherokee Chief ) and preparing to take the speakers back to our facility to complete.Headed to JENA Technologies.  


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