October 15, 201015 yr have a look here and drool... (go thru each wood on the left, one at a time) Woods by Specie: Amazon Exotic Hardwoods I'm going to buy at least 10 different pieces. Edited October 15, 201015 yr by kevin gilmore
October 16, 201015 yr have a look here and drool... (go thru each wood on the left, one at a time) Woods by Specie: Amazon Exotic Hardwoods I'm going to buy at least 10 different pieces. Beautiful stuff there. Their prices seem to be very close on the Lignum Vitea I priced on ebay. Found out while searching that LV was once used for bowling balls.
October 16, 201015 yr They have a really nice selection. I had a local lumber yard that was nice because you could look and feel the wood. Also, they could plane the wood for me to any thickness - great for speakers.
October 16, 201015 yr are Selmers becoming popular? when i was in conservatory it was Buffet, Buffet, Buffet. i always liked the Selmer Signature, when i auditioned them a couple times. Dunno. I've had my Selmer Prologue for around 20 years now. Cost
October 16, 201015 yr have a look here and drool... (go thru each wood on the left, one at a time) Woods by Specie: Amazon Exotic Hardwoods I'm going to buy at least 10 different pieces. Looks like you've found a local supply at reasonable prices. You'll know if you've got the real mckoy with LV from the perfume. Ones that you have absolutely got to have in your basket are: Burmese Paudauk Cocobolo Macassar Ebony Honduran Rosewood Kingwood Olive Purpleheart Zebrawood Ziricote I keep a small stock of turnery blanks (which is what this supplier provides) for small parts - contrasting through wedged tenons, knobs, decorative inserts, bow tie inserts etc. The thing to absolutely watch about these things is that most are not as stable as LV - many are prone to splitting if you take them straight into a dry heated or air conditioned house. You have to slowly acclimatise them to the humidity in which they will finally be used - reckon on a year or more per inch of thickness.
October 16, 201015 yr Beautiful stuff there. Their prices seem to be very close on the Lignum Vitea I priced on ebay. Found out while searching that LV was once used for bowling balls. The other main applications were in golf, where a "wood" used to have an LV head, and ship's propellor bearings. Because of its self-lubricating properties and complete imperviousness to continual immersion in salt water it was used extensively in the days of steam. Better wear properties than brass bearings. It was also use in woodwork for mallet heads because of its density. Of course, that meant that the relatively small global stock of this very slow growing wood is nearly depleted, meaning it is not easy to get hold of in decent sizes.
October 17, 201015 yr Griffin Exotic Wood--the high quality exotic wood source! Anyone bought anything from this mob?
October 17, 201015 yr Desert Ironwood from Griffin Exotic Wood Density 0f 1.2 Genuine Lignum Vitae (guiacum officinale from Griffin Exotic Wood The real stuff, not Argentinian. Both are from the link above..
October 19, 201015 yr Just about any opamp will work. With the capacitor fix, even an lm741 will work. Next 4 chassis are done and i'll have them tomorrow morning, and ship probably 2 of them tomorrow afternoon. Then the other 2 on thursday.
October 30, 201015 yr Just received the chassis safely and it looks great! Very sturdy and thick, and the heat-sinks are huge! Really impressive work - thanks Kevin!
November 4, 201015 yr Kevin, how deep are the knobs you've been making? I'm wondering if 3cm thick piece of material would make a decent knob, and not sure what proportions look right when I mock it up on the screen. I'd say something around 1" diameter and 1" deep is what looks decent, but just wanted to get another data point.
November 4, 201015 yr Production knobs are 1.5 inches in diameter, and 1.25 inches deep with a shaft that is 1 inch long. Single machined piece.
November 10, 201015 yr Someone dropped out so i have one extra chassis/board set available. Can probably ship end of next week. $1472 plus shipping.
November 11, 201015 yr oh shit, what have i done You have protected my wallet from a shitstorm. Good man.
November 11, 201015 yr You have protected my wallet from a shitstorm. Good man. You too? Thanks for taking one for the team blubliss!
November 12, 201015 yr Do to a complete miscommunication on my part, there will be one more chassis/board set available. Sorry al for my mistake. Scaring a high power lawyer, probably not a good thing to do At the rate andy is going, he will probably have his finished in about 2 weeks if he can find the rest of the parts.
November 12, 201015 yr Wow, part sourcing is pretty interesting Could I get some help with a few things. Read the whole thread but could not find an answer. I need a replacement for the 8 fast diodes STTH1512D And I can't find these: 100/3W 71-CPF3100R00FKE14 CPF3100R00FKE14 100K/3W 71-CPF3100K00FHE14 CPF3100K00FHE14 100uf/50v 647-ups1h101mpd ups1h101mpd 8 pin socket ?? I found the FKE14 at Newark but the shipping is not nice and wanted to see if i could combine. Thanks for any help. And Colin/Nebby, watch the wallets
November 12, 201015 yr And Colin/Nebby, watch the wallets You're telling me, I thought I was safe until I saw Kevin's latest post. Must.....Resist....
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