Phil_S wrote: Unfortunately, my dovetails often stick up a hair. I use the roundover bit to clean it up and mask my lack of technique! I suppose I should be using the flush cut bit in the router?
Sticking up a little is the right way to do it, if they end up short it looks terrible, and you HAVE to round it over to blend it. I wouldn't use the router, it can dig in if you slip even a little.
I sanded them flush with 80 grit on jitterbug. You can use a plane. but be careful not to work towards the edge or you can get splintering.
I like square edges, and box joint is the strongest corner joint you can do(most glue area)
Surfsup, those cabs are gorgeous! I would like to try working with walnut one of these days. Here is a pic of a cab with the basket weave grille on a pine TV front. The cab istself is select yellow pine, but the TV front is probably Ponerosa (aka "knotty pine"), sold as panels in various widths at Home Depot. The wood is finished with dark Danish oil.
I am partial to the basket weave, but that is just my preference. Don't know how it would look on walnut. I hadn't heard that basket weave attenuates highs from the speaker. It does have a bit more substance to it than some other grille cloths.
I haven't tried the radio cloths. I have a pretty good stash of the basket weave I have to use first.
Like any grille cloth, the basekt weave does seem to start "sagging" after a while. Does anybody know how to tighten it up? Maybe some moisture? It doesn't seem like heat would shrink it?
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That's the natural basket weave from AES I used. I thought it looked perfect for the wood. I took great care in making it tight and even with the edges so I will have to let time take its toll before I can answer that question. I didn't even realize it could sag.
I'm lucky to have an exotic wood store 1mile from my work. Each of the planks were 3/4"x14" and I think 10 or 12 feet long. Both were around $70? I only by decking and other rough wood at home depot....
I use a blow dryer, not a heat gun, and mist. Don't mist it enough to raise water drops! That causes staining like a flood would. It's more like wetting the air around it than directly spraying. Finest mist you can get too.. barely. Works on a Marshall.
After it dries I hit it with a fine misting of Aquanet Super-Extra Hold. It's a lacquer. heh
Signatures have a 255 character limit that I could abuse, but I am not Cecil B. DeMille.
