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If you're not living on the edge,
 you're taking up too much space.
December 21, 2008

Kara Chaffee (of deHavilland Electric Amplifier Company) and Pete assemble the crossovers


To the right, Ron Barbee aka The Man, helping me sand down the mounts. He’s got a 1966 Chevy Corvair that goes 0 to 60 in just three seconds. Given his involvement in our hobby, I must say that he clearly lied when he recently told the local press "...I quit all my hobbies, sold my motorcycle and concentrated on my little Corvair." He’s also an electronics whiz with a parts warehouse filled with vintage goodies and owner of three killer (and very different) hifi systems that compete for air time with his wife’s two grand pianos in their home. Here I try to help him with sanding the midrange innards and driver mounts.


Assembled and sanded mounting bracket for RCA driver


Bill Van Winkle (blind piano restorer and the BBBA’s designated babe-magnet®) and I mount the bass drivers

Harry Zweben (half of the Two Bald Guys Audio shop) and I put mid-horn into place
Bill Van Winkle checks to see if that rig measures up.
 


December 22, 2008


Pete now says, "In retrospect Stephæn was right. It is never easy.  One thing that made the Po’ Boys difficult is that we chose to construct the curved surfaces with planking. The planking lumber is never perfectly straight so there were surface irregularities that we spent beaucoup hours and elbow grease sanding.  Also, all those curved horn sections need to have their ends made plane to mate with the adjoining section or for a clean horn mouth plane. So, in general, every time Pete says it will be easy, just duck your head mama and run for cover with serpentine movements."

Ahhh, but the madness didn’t end there.
Yet, somehow I’m sure even you already knew that.

I have a feeling nothing's gonna’ happen
 to me today that I can handle.
January 7, 2009
 

1/8/09
What I wrote back (can you see me rolling my eyes?!): You're a sick boy, Pido. But, go ahead, pull my finger. I mean, draw me a picture. I mean, did I mention I was going to Europe for a year?!
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What I was thinking: Why am I having a serious episode of Déja Moo? You know, the feeling that you've heard this bull before …

Gentle readers: Remember when Pete said that the 10-cubic foot JBL enclosures donated by Rich would probably end up as the subwoofers for this system? Fat freakin’ chance. You didn’t really believe that, did you?
Stephæn and Pete Riggle, your hornographic tour guides

Stay tuned for Hornographic Pursuits Part 2 wherein the Eastern Washington Audio Mafia take on the task of tucking a 29 foot long 'L' shaped subhorn into the loft of the Garden of Earthly Delights.
If you can keep your head while all those about you are loosing
theirs, then perhaps you misunderstood the situation.
THE END