rwillett

Don't underestimate my ability to be fast and inaccurate with even a decent handsaw 😊 I'd much rather design a tool to do it properly rather than me cock it up. I know my limits and they are numerous and many.

Shout if you need any wide ports printed. Easy to change the radius of the outer port, it could be something exponential or a non constant radius. Rob

I saw a video with a plunge saw and thought wow, that looked the business and then saw the price of it. I think if I was making a dozen or so cabs, I'd invest, but for me, not sure it's worth the effort. Now I know you have one, I'll send future ply cuts to you

I did see it in the video, but part of the problem as it was getting colder was me slowing down and thickening up. There wasn't a bowl big enough for me to stand in

So thats this measurement on the right hand side, I would have thought so as well, but always good to check

Hi The plans for the 8" talk about a port length of 64mm inside diameter and 87mm length. I've printed the port and the flange as one piece. Do I include the flange height in the port length OR is it 87mm from inside the baffle board OR 87mm from the front of the baffle board OR is it 87mm from the front of the flange? My assumption is that it's 87mm from the front of the flange, so if the flange is 10mm and the plywood is 12mm then the port inside the cabinet is 87-10-12 = 55mm. Sorry for the dumb question. Thanks Rob

If I brought a motorbike in and dismantled it on the kitchen table, I suspect parts of my anatomy may be dismantled as well and distributed far and wide. The ply is nice ply (in my limited experience), the two things I've done differently are: Buying a guide rail for the circular saw. Massive change in cutting wood and it's now simple. Buying an 80 tooth circular saw blade and putting it in the right way. You can actually burn your way through plywood with it the wrong way, so I'm told. I of course didn't do that at all. Nope not me. Also moving the saw blade up so it's only cutting 12.5mm makes it a little friendlier and I can use some old wood as a base rather than my 40 year old Workbench. The second cab will be better again. Also the weather forecast is for six days of constant rain 🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️ so this is likely to be the only can this week Rob

Now about half way through. Holes and battens done. I've glued two sides and the bottom. Its now clamped very tightly. These are clamps I use from making the guitars, never thought I'd use them for real wood working. The only reason for stopping was the temperature was falling rapidly and the glue was thickening. So took the whole unit inside the house overnight. Not allowed to do things like this inside the house. Somewhat surprisingly most of the panels seem to fit. Not sure what happened there, normally I'd be out by 10mm or more Its pouring with rain here, enough for waterproof trousers, so I can build and glue in the garage (assuming it's above 5C) but that's it.

I thought we weren't allowed 'racey' or 'adult' pics of a 'suggestive' nature in case children were present. These are clearly 'top shelf' material indeed. Utterly superb. I saw you and your amps at the SW Bass Bash. Loved to have heard them or played through. Watched your build with admiration and awe. Now off for a cold shower. Rob

Some magic seems to have occurred... The observant amongst you will notice the 8" plans. This is the home made router jig and it set up for a 68mm hole. This was some tests I did"just-in-case" This is the baffle board with what appears to be the right sized hole and a 68mm with my printed port set in. The router jig works really well and cost an hour or two of printing and two M5 bolts. As I'm intending to make three boxes, there's an awful lot of batterns....

Ah, that's my super power, I could lose one, two or even three fingers and my bass, guitar and piano playing wouldn't be any worse at all ....

Who is MIRC?

Thanks all for information

Thanks for the offer of help. I will take it up. If it's clear enough for me I should be able to document it for other people. I can solder so that's not an issue. Today's activities are dog walking and cutting holes without damaging myself and ruining the already cut plywood.

The battern is 25mm, the one time I wanted to be sold short, I don't get it 😩. I have a little pack of speakon pieces, plates and pcb's from Blue Aran so will look at that. Today's activity is cutting round holes in plywood and screwing batterns down. I also need to make a jig for the speakon plate. That looks a little difficult.

To me, it's the loss of control that appears odd. Direct sales to customers is, as you say, smaller revenue stream than their customer dealers. Buying into the Shopify model means doing things the Shopify way, that's the Web framework you must use. Now if Shopify provides everything Gibson wants to do, that's fine, but if Gibson wants to do things that Shopify can't offer, then they have to either build something off the Shopify site and link back and make sure it all fits. I can't speak for USA accountancy rules, but in the UK you could get this as a managed service through a Web design and hosting company and get the people costs off your head count. You also get the VAT back and it goes against corporation tax as an expense and HMRC are happy. For smaller companies Shopify simplifies things but for larger ones, I still think it's unusual. Clearly Gibson will have worked it all out and made their call so what do I know 😊 Rob

Strange usage of the word "just" I hadn't heard before 😊

Better qualified than me... There is approx 310cm of baton. Total volume of 2.0cm x 2.0cm x 310cm = 1,240cm^3 Total volume of 2.5cm x 2.5cm x 310cm = 1,937.5cm^3 Approx total interior volume of cab = 40x30x27.5 = 33,120cm^3. I know it's slightly less as I should take into account the overlap of pieces but I've only got an iPhone with me and it's hard to keep track from the PDF. So (1937-1240)/33120 = approx 2% change. No idea if a significant change. Doesn't sound like it but what do I know. Rob

First dumb questions of the day... Managed to one of my plywood pieces cut down to what appears to be the right sizes. I got a Makita guide rail and adaptor for the circular saw. Also an 80 tooth 190mm blade. Suddenly I have straight and clean cuts. Wow. Why have I never done this before. Anyway, I have the batons. Nobody had 20mm at all only 25mm so have had to use that. I have plywood for four cabinets now, one will be a spray booth fan holder so one piece of plywood is for cockups. Also Blue Arran have sent their stuff so I have two speakers to install and stuff for wiring. Q1 does using 25mm batterns make a massive difference to the sound due to the internal volume changing? I know I'll have to adjust the batten sizes to make them fit but I can do that. Q2 should I glue and screw the batterns OR just screw OR just glue? People seem to have done all of them. Q3 I have all the bits for two separate 8" cabs and was thinking I could connect the two cabs together via some magic with the dual connector speakon connectors plates. So two cabs presenting 4 Ohms to the Gnome. Of course I never checked I could do this and arrogantly assumed I'd find a way. Is this feasible, sensible and doable?

Gibson must have worked out the costs of Shopify vs roll your own. Building your own isn't cheap either. However most big brands tend to build their own to get the site exactly how they want. Gibsons annual revenue is circa $300M per annum so they can afford it. Still strikes me as odd for Gibson to use Shopify though.

It does depend on how much power the router actually needs <doh obviously>. I have a small travel router with wifi and a sim card slot sitting on my desk (somewhere) that is easily powered by a USB port. It's matchbox sized and I used it for hotels with a cheap local sim when abroad. Would I be able to power a high end OpenWRT router, no! Depends on your requirement though as to what you actually need. I've just seen the reply from @tauzero about USB hosts and USB devices which complexly stops the idea Rob

Whilst you regret nothing... I on the other hand...

I suppose if nothing else, I'd force myself to accept a CAR Precision if somebody ever gave me one. It would be a struggle but I reckon I could handle it. I'd probably need to be given the burst as well so it all balances out. Is there a list somewhere I add my name to? Rob

This is great free entertainment.

And to really mix things up as well https://github.com/mikeoliphant/stompbox Never built either StompBox or PiPedal. StompBox gets some great writeups from people. Perhaps a winter project over Xmas? Rob