Case Mod - In Progress Project: Ingraham

Cool! Wooden mousie?
You have 2 haters on the endgadget so far. Out of curiosity I checked my bloo/gizmodo writeup. I win. 90% hate including post#1

 

No wooden mouse. I haven't seen many of what I'm working on for some strange reason. That's why I'm doing it. (How's that for tease?)

You would lose miserably in a haters competition Cheaps. Believe that. I have PMs that would give you nightmares.

 

Hate PM? neat! It's like an open invitation to be cruel to someone.
...Sorry. I wouldn't be chopping cases if I wasn't a little sadistic.

-Inkjet printer mod?

 

Injet printer mod...that was hilarious.

If you are feeling really sadistic be a judge in a case mod contest. Wear your skin extra thick that day. Case modders are, after all, psychopaths with a hobby.

 

Punch card reader!

john

 

Hmmm, I am intrigued.

 

Yes! I'm modding it for a USB cable but I can't seem to figure out how to power it off the bus. I thought about doing a telegraph key with a USB cable but that's just being ridiculous.

 

Not so rediculous as you might think! My second home forum:
http://brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/

Anachronistic people with serious skills hide here. Check the forums. Datamancer lives here. Museum quality stuff like yours!

john

 

http://brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/200701/deco-and-wooden-pc-mods

If you look at Datamancer's website you will find a link to my site. We formed a mutual admiration society years ago. l

 

I lurk.

Some small pointers when I can. 60 yrs. on the planet has to teach something.
Ancient Tinkerer.

john

 

With some leftover material from Ingraham and some scrap from other projects I decided to build Ingraham a set of speakers. The speakers started out life as Harmon Kardon units that came along with almost every Dell sold during 2000-2004. 5W units in a cheesy plastic case.



Built the boxes out of 3/32" 5-ply birch plywood.




Most of the body is veneered in walnut except for a 3" strip of mahogany down the front. Added steel mesh screen from a Walmart trash can I have been chopping up for mesh for years. The three black strips are part of my initial design idea.




New in this project is something I've wanted to do for some time. The gold-colored lines are actually thin strips of brass inlayed between the two different woods.




Added some equipment.



The back panels are raw birch plywood finished with satin brush-on lacquer. The bass ports double as I/O port openings. Lazy? Maybe but I could not bring myself to drilling a tiny little hole for a cable when I got a huge one right there. There are no fasteners. The back panels are hand milled to a tight friction fit. Overlap from the walnut veneer keeps everything tight




Final shots. You can see I went with aluminum bars instead of black. Black looked good as a stand-alone but the aluminum matched better sitting next to Ingraham.



Leftovers, scraps, junky speakers and a week to build. What fun! Thanks for looking and have a Happy New Year!

 

I cant believe I've not commented on this mod, it's amazing! Those speakers look great aswell by the way!

 

Those are great. What a good way to use the leftovers.

 

Good work with the speakers as well. My latest speaker mod was a bit.. well.. different

 

Those sweet speaker enclosures should have... nay, DEMAND better speakers than those Harmon Kardons! I hope you plan on upgrading in the future.

 

Thanks! Welcome to the show...better late than never. LOL

I thought so too. Thanks.

That's just not right. Shouldn't there be satellites to go with that sub-hoofer? Sub-oinker? Sub-porker?

Thanks but this was all about having fun gathering up some junk and making something out of it. Better to do this first than rip up some expensive Bose. Now where are those Bose?

 

Those are just beautiful! Can I ask what you used to glue the brass in with?

@Jipa - You better have the woofer coming out of his butt! It's that extra little touch that's needed for that kind of thing.

 

Nice one slipperyskip,very nice

 

I found them! They are in my tackroom safe and warm. I was checking for another night of 80mph winds.
Pics in the morning!
Cute little Acoustimass buggers - thanks for reminding me.

john - wishing all a Happy new year

 

WOW, those speakers are beautiful, they compliment the HTPC perfectly. Beautiful work mate.