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The finished
left Khorn.
Nighttime shot .
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The complete
unit from the rear. -
Phase 4?
The making of the top backboard covers.
Nothing to special here, just thin fiber board covered with grill cloth.They are
attached with felcro for easy removal & re-installation. -
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And here it
is installed. -
Here is one
wood top.
Again, each one had to be custom made for its unique location. -
On to phase
3.
The making of the triangular shaped wood tops.I chose to
cut down the trailing edge of the corners to permit the wood tops to sit on
top of them and be equal with the top of the bass bin.
I put a very thin piece of rubber weatherstrip on top on the corner to insulate
it from the wood top. -
The grill frames are attached to the false corner with
3 black wood screws, virtually invisible. -
A finished
grill frame. -
Next, I
installed the grill cloth. -
In this pic
you can see that I added a foam rubber strip to the side that butts up against
the Khorn so as to help make a tight and rattle free fit. -
Next I
painted them black. -
Here is how
it fits onto the Khorn and false corner.Also, worth
mentioning is that I had to custom make each grill frame individually since
there are minor differences in each corner and left & right side of each
Khorn. -
The inner
edge (Khorn side) of the grill frame conveniently fit perfect into the recessed
area where the original grill frame was. -
In this pic you will notice that the right side is at
a slight angle and cut with a corner notch.
I accomplished this by gluing 2 pieces of wood together and then later making
an angular cut on them to offset the angle of the inner cut board.
All this was necessary so that the outer edge of the grill frame would hug or
fit onto the outer edge or the false corner. -
Phase 2 of
the project was making the new grill cloth frames.
This was probably the most difficult and challenging part of the project.
I was basically engineering this design on the fly. Lots of wasted wood.Here is the
frame design I came up with using standard 1x2 wood. -
The back and
side of the right Khorn. -
The back and
side of the left Khorn. -
The right
Khorn. -
This is what
they looked like after phase one of the project.
I might mention here that I spent an enormous amount of time experimenting with
wood stains to get the best possible match. Make no doubt about it, it is very
difficult.
I think I bought every stain color known to man and test stained bunches of
scrap wood until I found a good match.
The left Khorn. -
I screwed a ¼ threaded stud onto the backboard of the
Khorns. This is the only hole or screw that went directly into the Khorn and
could easily be reversed if necessary.
As you can see, after careful alignment, the threaded stud would go through the
hole in the L bracket where I attached a wing nut.This way, I could draw tight, via
the wing nut, the Khorn into the false corner to make a tight seal against the
new rubber seals I installed down the edges of the backboard.
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On the top corner bracket I attached
an L bracket.
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False Corners Don't Have To Be Ugly. (PICS !!!)
in Technical/Restorations
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Decorated
WAF shot.
The plant is artificial (no water) and is sitting on a rubber pad to avoid
rattles and scuffs.