How a $300,000 Speaker is Made

[Spalted Walt]

"Oswalds Mill Audio makes $300,000 speakers from wood like ash, cherry, and walnut-plus slate and special cast iron. The sound quality is as good as the materials."

[Keith Nuttle]

I thought they were elected to office

[Dr. Deb]

Drool

[Bill]

Not taking anything away from their artistic enterprise, but "Go play yer guitar!" ; )

[Spalted Walt]

Sorry, Bill but "this'll have to do fer now"

[Leon]

or

One from 40+ years ago

[Leon]

And something really unexpected!

[Bill]

That was *very good* playing! : ) My point was that a $500 guitar might sound better than $300,000 speakers. There was a poster at rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic, now basically defunct, who frequently wrote, "Shut up, and go play your guitar!". So I sort of stole his line, but, lacking motivation to spend $300,000 on a speaker (is that for a pair?), it felt like an appropriate reply. : )

[Bill]

Although I find the intro to be a little bit "notey" (with repeated listening), I really like this one: Louis & Clark, by Tommy Emmanuel

[J. Clarke]

Hey, the guy is doing a find job of fleecing his marks. More power to him.

[DerbyDad03]

You want guitars? You get guitars:

[Spalted Walt]

factoid: Ludwig van Beethoven sold twice as many albums during his lifetime than JS Bach. ;-D

[Scott Lurndal]

'n_Play_Yer_Guitar

[Leon]

No, I was pointing more to this many guys playing guitars in a small crowded boat in a swamp. LOL

[Bill]

Thanks Scott, I'll have to follow up on that!

Bill

[notbob]

I'd rather play my banjo.

I'm contemplating making my own. A friend has a pretty elaborate wood shop and will allow me to turn a 11" pot (rnd banjo body) on his 11-1/2" wood lathe. I reiterate, he will ALLOW ME --IOW, ain't gonna do it for me!-- to use his lathe. Cool enough.

While I've not used a wood lathe since I was in the 8th grade, I usta be a prototype machinist, so get the drift of a lathe. Besides, I suspect my buddy will be "micro-magaging" the crap outta me while steadily looking over my shoulder. (I damn sure hope so!) ;)

nb

[Bill]

Hi nb,

An interest in banjo making ("minstrel" style) preceeded me finding this group in the first place (I started realizing I didn't know as much about working wood as I thought I did, and thought I better get on it). Anyway, I just wanted to mention that the pots are usually not turned, the wood is "steamed" and bent around a jig and clamped. The grain will be working "for you" this way, instead of against you. If you did as you described it would probably not take long for the pot to split in two, unless perhaps you left the "back" on it (and I can't really see why you would). I understand that the hard part of steam bending can be accomplished with a piece of PVC tubing large enough to hold the piece of wood. There is probably a YouTube video. Have you got a design for your banjo?

Cheers, Bill

[Scott Lurndal]

Frank was a gifted musician. His son is a pretty good player, as well.