JJkizak

If we knew how old you were now maybe we could pinpoint the year. JJK

Travisc: Yes, starfleet command says no black. Used a product called "Band-it" red oak veneer with very small amount of miniwax stain. It came with hot melt glue on the back. Not an easy job but it does stick good. About 7 coats of clear polyurethane. Polished with fine buffing compound and foam buffer after wet sanding with #1200 paper. You can get it to mirror finish but not recomended because after about 6 months the in between grains shrink so stick with the stoned finish. This is true even on 1/2" thick red oak plywood which is on the top of the K-horns only. Cotterphoto: The paneling is knotty pine and the house was built in 1934 as a cottage.The stair railing is a slab of redwood stump about 8-9 foot long. The original K-horn was fir plywood and I applied the "Band-it" stuff mentioned above. If I would do the job again I would use some other product or even cover it with 1/4" veneer and glue it with the white glue. Although the Band-it was real handy going around the corners, you still had to watch how hard you applied an electric sander as it would generate enough heat to melt the hot melt glue (400 degrees) and the sucker would pop up and to get it to level again was almost impossible. Had to do some areas three times, ripping it off each time and using new veneer. JJK

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Marvel: Thank you a bunch. JJK

OK. Did I do something wrong? Everybody sees red X's on the Pics. I used the insert image icon. JJK

The Deco thread on technical questions. JJK

Check the thread on 2 channel, I posted the pictures there by mistake, they are on the "harshness" thread by "Duke". JJK

I'm sorry guys I got the wrong thread. JJK

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My Sony digital camera is set to 2200 x2200 for High def stuff so I failed to take pics because they would be way too big. I will get to it though. And I still have dial-up. JJK

Duke: My old speakers were pretty rough before I put in the new Dean crossovers. And I use (cough) solid state conventional amps Denon low end stuff. After the installation of the crossovers it was like listening to new speakers, especially the Corwall. I also pump the crap out of the low end with an equalizer and use the AKA Hughes expander which really pumps the crap out of everything. I guess you could say I am really "pumped". JJK

My 1965 K-horns and Cornwall were originally Decorator models that I have since filled the small depressions and levelled the wood then covered with veneer. I manufactured my own grills which bolt to the units with 1/4" decorative hardware and tobacco colored outer cloth (flowered and very thin) with black fibreglass screening behind mounted on plastic square holed ceiling squares painted black and all items hot melt glued with plastic "U" frame around the edges. The hardware screws into rubber mounts on the motorboard keeping the assembly about 1/2" away from the board al la new style Klipsch speaker design to prevent too much "air choking". One of the rubber mounts (5/8" long x 1/2" diameter had to be redesigned as the center area of the board had the crossover network behind it and drilling through it wasn't an option. On the K- horns I did not make any side grilles, just painted the areas black. I did however make a grill for the midrange/tweeter section which necessitated drilling 1/2" holes through the aluminum mid-range horn lip for the rubber mounts. They are now "Sherman tank certifiable". Also mounted the original Klipsch plastic emblems (still in bags) with tiny brass screws and restapled the waranty tags in their original positions. JJK

Duke: Maybe you can elaborate on your definition of "harshness". Could it be "tinny" or "shrill", or "distortion related" or in what I suspect is happening is you are exceeding the "SPL" of the room. You can usually tell when this is happening by the pictures falling off the wall, ceiling caving in, mad people next door shooting at you, old Volkswagon Bugs all painted real silly parked by your driveway with long haired people dancing in the street. JJK

Duke: What is your actual hearing response? Playing in live bands can reak havoc on your ears. JJK

Some of the online shippers have installed deals in your home but the shipping may take 30 days. Freight truckers do not ship like UPS or FEDEX, whereas the customer is important. They act like railroads. JJK

I don't see why it wouldn't. Although I am not holding my breadth on this one. I may have seen an add for 540p sets doing 1080i but can't remember. JJK

I like it much. Just make sure your base plywood is flat by filling in the voids or cracks or scrapes with plastic wood or fibreglass (corners for strength) prior to appliying the new veneer. Don't use any cheap glue, check to see what a patternmaker uses on his molds and they mix sawdust cut from the same veneer to color the glue properly. When I did mine I removed the top section then screwed two pieces of plywood temporarily to the top and bottom of the bass section so the speaker would lay flat. Don't screw the screws all the way through the speaker plywood unless the areas are non compartmental. The speaker plywood is usually very straight. If you use a belt sander use a big one, no cheapy as the cheapy will make it worse. I had a 3" Makita that was garbage and had to bias the pressure to the left side to get it to sand level. JJK