Coytee Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 Found these on ebay.... a bit pricey.....but crazy to look at!! https://www.ebay.com/itm/Klipschorn-Designer-Speakers/383320128750?hash=item593fa8fcee:g:f9gAAOSwrcRd5w5t (from the listing) My son and I build custom furniture and do a lot of work using veneers and exotic woods. We are both Audio Nuts. I fell in love with Klipsch speakers in the early 1960's and have loved them since. In the last few years, we have started collecting and storing older speakers from Klipsch, Altec, JBL, and Electro Voice, mostly Klipsch. We plan to repair or replace any defective drivers or crossovers and give the enclosures a cool custom look, but not change any of the great sound. When we got this 1986 set of Klipschorn Designer Type they were a little rough. However, all of the drivers sounded great. Before we started doing the veneer work, we repaired and enclosed the back of the enclosures and sprayed them in black lacquer. These have been reveneered in Osage Orange. We finished off the enclosures with four coats of pre-catalyzed lacquer from Sherwin Williams. We also replaced the crossovers with new Bob Crites AA crossovers and new tweeter diaphragms. v 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 See: In Texas, it's Bois d'Arc...not Osage Orange, and the "oranges" aren't orange, but bright green. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coytee Posted December 25, 2019 Author Share Posted December 25, 2019 Goes to show how far behind the times I am!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USNRET Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 11 minutes ago, Chris A said: In Texas, it's Bois d'Arc.. and one of the hardest trees around..my grandparents' house used stumps of these as piers on which their house sat. Built 60 years ago and still level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 4 minutes ago, Coytee said: Goes to show how far behind the times I am!! When I first started work at Altec Lansing in 1995, it was as part of the then-new Digital Engineering Group. To make room for us, they re-opened what had been the speaker demonstration room in the 1960s -- a room that apparently hadn't been used for 20 years -- and located our workstations there. The room was decidedly "60s", with thick shag carpeting and wall decoration in exactly the same shade of orange as the midrange and tweeter horns in this photograph. As outrageous as these Klipschorns might be, they would have simply disappeared in that room. Bit of trivia for anyone familiar with the modern day Great Plains Audio: Bill Hanuschak's anechoic chamber was located right across the hall from that room. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coytee Posted December 25, 2019 Author Share Posted December 25, 2019 4 hours ago, Edgar said: When I first started work at Altec Lansing in 1995, it was as part of the then-new Digital Engineering Group. To make room for us, they re-opened what had been the speaker demonstration room in the 1960s -- a room that apparently hadn't been used for 20 years -- and located our workstations there. The room was decidedly "60s", with thick shag carpeting and wall decoration in exactly the same shade of orange as the midrange and tweeter horns in this photograph. As outrageous as these Klipschorns might be, they would have simply disappeared in that room. Bit of trivia for anyone familiar with the modern day Great Plains Audio: Bill Hanuschak's anechoic chamber was located right across the hall from that room. Did you have an uncontrollable urge to listen to Sonny & Cher while watching reruns of The Mod Squad? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No.4 Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 I like em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktate Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 https://kansascity.craigslist.org/ele/d/omaha-klipsch-klipschorns-omaha/7042361757.html Buy these then go buy a truck with the rest...lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatgrass Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 On 12/25/2019 at 11:40 AM, Chris A said: n Texas, it's Bois d'Arc...not Osage Orange, and the "oranges" aren't orange, but bright green. In SE Arkansas, these were "horse apples" . Many old fence lines had "bo dark" fence posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glens Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Hedge apples. That doesn't look like any "hedge" (osage orange) wood I've ever seen. It's always been decidedly yellowish-greenish with no black like on those cabinets. I've seen a fair amount. It makes quite good firewood - nearly as hot-burning as coal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallcon83 Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 I think that it is referred to as Osage Orange Tiger Stripe Composite veneer - an Engineered veneer , Also the "Osage Orange" that they are referring to is An orange / yellow wood found mostly in Argentina . -- cheers, Dean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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