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A couple of ebony armboards.
Firstly for a Voyd 3 mounting hole board.
Replaces a very thin and tinny metal plate one, drilled for 2 arms (sort of) - lovely sounding and looking ebony instead[emoji846]
SME mounting with blind nuts set in for easy arm attachment.
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This one is off to Denmark.
Next an ebony disc that mounts on a tonearm plinth tower, via the 3 flush / sunk caphead bolts.
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Staying in the UK for this one.
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Several orders for Tannoy GRF style cabinets have come in!
Here's a regular rectangular cabinet in the making.
These will take a pair of 15" HPD eight mounting hole drivers.
Made from 24mm (all external panels) and 21mm premium faced dense birch plywood.
Panels for one cabinet, cut, machined and sanded to finished level.
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Build underway
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Driver mounting plate and inner baffle in.
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Teardrop baffle creation.
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Felt fitted and sides on
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Close ups of fit and panel alignment
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Base on
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Top on and rear panel trial fitted.
Pound coin in bottom right corner shows the scale
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Next up, 2nd cab build.
Then onto plinths, removable rear panel fixings etc.
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Here is the Thorens td-125 solid ebony armboard I made a while ago.
Residing in canada with a very nice linear tracking arm [emoji7]
That's 3 of these armboards all in use on this customers 3 TD-125s, for various tonearms.
Ebony does the business.
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I had a request for 5 x 100g counterweights to fit and match the mighty Fidelity Research FR64s / FR66s tonearm.
Here they are
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Plenty of mass flexibility
Sent off to Singapore.
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Some more small stainless steel turning projects.
1st up a lateral weight and carrier rod for a Sansui 929 deck / arm.
Nice piece of kit that deck and arm
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Off to Italy with this one.
Then a lighter of the two Anti-skate weights for the mighty Fidelity Research FR64s tonearm
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UK for this one.
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This time it's a solid one piece ebony armboard for a Technics SL-1210 GR deck.
A Linn fitting for both a Supatrac Blackbird sideways unipivot (interesting new arm) and a Syrinx tonearm.
The benefits of ebony over other materials are well reported of course.
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Progress on the big Tannoy GRF replica cabinets.
These are made of 24mm thick premium birch plywood.
The 21mm supply that I'd used previously for the sides and back has dried up completely..
These are extra heavy of course.
The customer came down with the drivers and Mainly Tannoy new crossovers (very nice).
Also a custom grille and plinth solution. More about those later.
The cabs will now be finished, plinthed, etc.
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A couple of hi-end deck ebony armboards now.
Same customer.
1st one TW Acustic.
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2nd one for a Micro Seiki. This is the AX-4G format for 12" arms.
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Clamped on my test mount pillar.
Off to Canada for these two.
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The Tannoy GRF style cabinets for the HPD 385 drivers, I made have been finished and collected.
The owner is very happy with them.
He requested a different plinth arrangement octagonal, a large spike in each corner (something he already had, and liked the look), showing infront of the plinth corners.
Instead of half or long grilles an American made round mesh grille that fits snugly on a pressed flange that I fitted onto the front of the drivers.
The usual Tannoy front foam rubbers after easily removed.
A thinner strip of foam rubber was applied between each surface and the 8 bolts hold it all together.
Here are some pics.
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Close up of the badges
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Demo in the workshop
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Backs
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Spikes
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A nice project all in 24mm birch plywood. They were very solid and heavy!
