![]() Tried staining sample pieces of the wood with Sheenlac wood-stainer, available in hardware stores.Finally fix small cubes of wood on the corners, on the back-end of the box, so that the back-panel can be fixed using screws. Hence, pasted a 2.5mm thick mdf-sheet over the wood on inner-side using glue, to create a 10mm thick front panel). (The 8mm thick pinewood was good for all the other sides of the speaker box, except for the front face of the speaker box which has to hold the weight of the speaker, and also cannot accommodate a 10mm length screw. I did not use nails/screws for joining these, since they will be visible on the sides. Join the finished planks together with glue to make the boxes.Photo: Sized wooden pieces for the head unit This part of the process takes time and tests patience. Now sand the surface of the final sized wooden planks with 180grit sandpaper, the wood patterns will become visible.Photo: Final sizing of the wood planks with sand-paper holder The reason for this was a plane can easily remove material from wood in the direction of wood fibre, but in the perpendicular direction it has no use, while emery paper mounted on a sandpaper holder works nicely in both orientations. I found it easier to do this using sandpaper (100grit) mounted on a holder. Mount the cut wood pieces on a platform with clamp, and use a plane or sandpaper-mounted on a holder, and size them (mount multiple pieces together, if they require identical dimensions). The cut pieces can be further fine-sized again to the final size, using a plane or sandpaper.Photo: Cutting the pine plank with hand-saw While I could manage all the straight cuts, for the final circular opening for the speaker front, I went to a neighbourhood carpenter. It is reasonably quick, and you get near-perfect cuts. Mark lines on the plank with pencil, mount on a flat platform/stool, hold them to the platform/stool with clamps, and cut with a handsaw along the pencil mark. The joined pinewood planks can be cut into the required sizes necessary for the speaker box, using a simple hand-saw.Photo: Clamps holding the pinewood planks joined with glue. The strength of the wood glue is such that, when you break a joint, the wood will not separate along the joint, but rather cleave along the wood fibres away from the joint. All that is needed is a flat platform (a wooden stool), a few flat bars (plywood strips), and a minimum of 4 clamps. These pine planks can be joined together with wood glue to make larger size planks.Hence purchased 7mm thick, 8cm x 30cm pinewood planks from Amazon. The standard wooden planks available in sawmills are thick, large in size and expensive.For woodworking tips: YouTube videos by Steve Ramsey.Besides, the speakers I am planning to use may not be of such quality to warrant these designs. For speaker box design: After reading this, I decided not to follow many of the described guiding principles, to avoid ending up with very large-sized enclosures.Mount/fix the audio connectors on a support at the base of the speaker box/ head-unit, and not directly on the back panel, (v) Not to buy expensive woodwork tools, like electric-saw, vice, electric-sander, etc, and manage with simple tools, hand-saw, plane, chisel, sandpaper-holder, etc.Provide a projecting rim on the front side of the speaker boxes, instead of a flat front.The speaker boxes are to be made of wood, with the wood pattern showing out, and not plywood or MDF.Four separate small boxes for the 4 speakers, instead of combining a pair of speakers in a single box.Photo: Pioneer head unit and four Sony X-plod dual-speakers.ĭecided on the following essential requirements for the home audio: The work was done basically on weekends, half-day each on Saturday and Sunday, stretching over many weeks. With some interest in carpentry, I decided to make the enclosures for them and build a DIY home sound system. DIY: Carpentry for converting Car Audio to Home Audio SystemĪ few months ago while selling my old car, I had removed the Pioneer head unit and four Sony X-plod speakers which I had installed in it. BHPian jkrkrish recently shared this with other enthusiasts.
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