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My second real woodworking projects … speaker stands built from padauk and finished with Tung Oil/Vanish blend. This wood is beautiful to look at but the red dust gets everywhere. Also needs to be finished quickly or it ages into a very ugly grey/brown color.
Loose mortise and tenon joinery is used to connect base and tops to speaker legs. Dowels used for cross braces.
Designed so that center of gravity falls over base so that they do not tip.
-- Shawn, I ask in order to learn
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Scott Bryan
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posted 583 days ago
Hi Shawn,
These are beautiful stands. I love the wood choice and the finish looks good.
Thanks for the post.
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.
RobS
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posted 583 days ago
Nice design, please add another picture when they are in place/use. Thanks!
-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX
motthunter
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posted 583 days ago
looks good.. lets see it in place with the speakers
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CharlieM1958
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These will be a great addition to any room.
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
Dusty56
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posted 583 days ago
Sweet stands…I was wondering if they were top heavy …thanks for explaining about the center of gravity
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SPHinTampa
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Updated pictures to show in use.
If my math is right, the design should support a very heavy speaker (20 lbs) with a 2.5x safety factor before reaching the tipping point in any direction – if my physics lessons were better than my shop scores in school. The base is 12” sq x 2”t while the top is only 9” sq x 1 1/2’t.
In 2 years, no one has knocked them over.
-- Shawn, I ask in order to learn