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.