Smeggy

...my brain cells

As for choices, I'm not a fan of the 600, 701 or RS-1 and haven't heard the AD2k so I'm abstaining from voting.

cheers! the 'wing' is a rear pad ramp, inside that wing is a strip of sponge rubber to give ear clearance for comfort. If you look at the hand held pic you can see how deep the pad to driver space is at the back. I hate getting my ears squished like most, so I'm trying to make them as comfy as I can with the standard pads. The baffle also has a sheet of fine nylon mesh over it for added protection that doesn't affect the sound.

Cheers, I'll get a better picture of the lump of tree up in a while. Don, that's the mounting method I'm going to use for Alexs' set. It's very comfy

me wood!! #1 #2 these should make nice phones or something also tried some maple burl Fostex cups while testing a new mounting. I love mah wee toys.

ok, small update. Still need to finish the headband, other than that...

I fear nothing but fear itself

Reks, I think our work is done here

not even if I rub it really hard and make it all shiny?

but it's real easy to work with...

Hey, what's wrong with looking at my wood??

Will post one up tonight when I get home.

I picked up a lovely block of something the other day, no idea what it is but it sure looks pretty. Gorgeous colours and grain.

Teak is great when you need a good strong and hard wearing wood but it's certainly not the best looking stuff around. As to my cocobolo blank, I'm not deluding myself, just hopeful it won't be a complete waste. It was about 20 bux so not too bad.

I guess it's not as common as it once was, anyway, oily, biggish grain, tough as old boots and used on ship decks.... which may explain where all the wood went.

I haven't played with teak in ages. Can't recall the last time I saw teak in a woodshop.

Yeah, that's the pack I bought. Now I gotta go back get more LEDs and find out what resistor it needs for my 3v battery supply.

Of course, the answer to everything! I should have known.

what resistor value should I use?

I have a cocobolo blank here still wrapped in wax so I don't know it's water content until I cut it up. Hopefully it's dry but I have my doubts. If not it'll be spliteroony time and another bunch of bucks in the shitter.

milspec is too dagerous for such a simple design, it would kill all the civilian components... Collateral damage should never be taken lightly. Anyway, I popped a pair of batteries in the case, attached it to one of the LEDs to make sure it was nice and bright... it was a small supernova for about 1 millisecond before a fizzle and funny, yet familiar smell of burning. It seems two 1.5V batteries are a bit much for a 2.4v LED. Will pick up some 5v ones later. So anymore thoughts on my crossfeed idea? no light - stereo, full light mono. adjusted - variable mix, running parallel to the normal singnal.

So I was doing it right after all! Cool

The skipjack is neither black nor full of tubes, therefore not worth the asking price. I mean, really, not even a headphone jack? Tsk, obvious oversight..

back from lowes with Deft semi-gloss and satin lacquer and sanding sealer. I'll let you know how it goes after I do a test on my Fostex.

I've just been having real problems with surfaces marking up too easily after I finish. I have all the grits down to 600 plus various wire wool grades so smoothing isn't too bad, I'm not having too much joy with other finishes. I have high temp shellac, wipe on shellac, wipe on poly, spray on poly, gel poly and so on but they all mark too easily even after days drying. The lacquer is the only one so far that's gone on nicely and fixes durably hard and doesn't easily mark with handling. I only have gloss lacquer right now so I'm hoping to pick up some other stuff later today. The gloss does look nice but shows grain ridges mercilessly hence the need for subtle filler.